Happy Birthday, Susanna! Our favorite five year old insists she is old enough now to drink without a sippy lid (yep, Mommy has an aversion to cleaning up spilled milk) and too old to suck her thumb. She is now practically grown up. Last week, we realized that Janie and Elizabeth like snuggling together, while Susie likes her space, so we swapped beds so that Susie has the top bunk to herself while the other two share the bottom bunk. Everyone is getting along better at nighttime. Susie still gets up first every morning and comes up to my room to snuggle with me. This morning, she did it with a huge grin on her face.
She still prefers to live in her tutu, or in swirly dresses if the tutu is unavailable. She likes ballet, but she wants to try soccer instead this fall, as long as Daddy is her coach. She looks to be the most tomboyish of the Muller girls, with more stamina on hikes than any of her siblings. Yesterday she begged to start Elizabeth’s phonics book and proudly insisted that she’s starting kindergarten now. (Since she’s been sitting in on the big kids’ lessons for years now, she already has most of the K and 1st grade poems memorized, so we’ll have to figure out some new things for her to learn.) While she generally follows along with whatever Elizabeth is doing, she often seems old for her age. She is always curious and usually quite emotional. I choose to be grateful that God saw fit to give me a classic strong-willed child. No succumbing to peer pressure for Q!
Opening presents tonight was so much fun. Susie was thrilled with all her gifts, as you can see from her facial expressions…
