Celebrating Plum, aka Anna Grace, today who turns five, FIVE!! Having not spent a full day at home since... i can't remember...over 10 days, which is unusual for us plus the busyness of Christmas and all the tiredness that that brings, we have plans to stay at home all day. It is bank holiday so daddy is here to. There will definitely be presents and birthday tea with cake (i have seen the cake daddy has made.) There is a party planned for Thursday to celebrate with friends and family.
Plum, 5, has recently moved into her own bed. She has spent the Christmas period sleeping on the boy's bedroom floor and has already mentioned that she wants to sleep in her room when she has to move out of theirs. I still have the privaledge of holding her hand and lying with her though as she falls asleep. She tends to go to bed between 9 and 10pm with Bean and wake up about 9am although she has been know to sleep until 11am on occasion.
She is incredibly social. She loves being out of the house and in large groups of people. She has friends of all ages. She enjoys playing with older girls and just recently she has taken to successfully organising small groups of friends in the game that she has devised. She equally enjoys friends of her own age and younger. She is just as happy to play with Pippin, 2, and her cousins C, 4, and H, 2. Plum particulary enjoys small world and role play/ dressing up games. She plays through family scenerios a lot in these games, most of them revolving around a 'mummy's and daddy's' theme. Her favourite things to encorporate in her play (other than other people) are dollies and soft toys with accompanying equipment, polly pocket, doll's house, kitchen set and she is loving her new collection of My Little Ponies. Plum also likes crafting and making. She loves painting and sticking and junk modelling and especially play dough and face painting. She is a natural goal setter. She is able to tell you what she is trying to achieve and then will set about working on it until it is accomplished. She is a natural gymnast and enjoys tumbling and is currently trying to perfect a head stand.
She has definite preverances in what she wears. She loves dresses and most things pink or sparkly but she also loves to wear items with pictures of her favourite things on, Hello Kitty or My Little Pony. She likes to "decorate" herself too. She likes to wear nail polish and braclets and necklaces. Sometimes she will ask for hair clips too.
Plum likes watching Youtube. She enjoys watching toy reviews and often asks for things she has seen on there. Her favourite though is Family Fun Pack. She also enjoys playing cbeebies games and dressing up and make up game son Friv. Her favourite thing to watch is the cbeebies pantos and ballets.
She is a very busy little one. Most of the things she does happen all at once with a board game thrown in too. There are often several moments a day when she requires everything to happen simultaneously before she settles on one game or activity. However she also knows when she needs to rest. She likes to curl up cosy somewhere, on a bed or make a den or cuddle on the sofa or watch a dvd. She knows her own mind and how to articulate what she wants but is also able to show huge consideration for others and suggest plans and ideas that will suit everyone. One of her most used phrases is "why don't we...." as she proposes what we can do so everyone is happy with the outcome. She also likes to say "why don't you....whilst i...." as she organises everyone.
Five years seems to have gone incredibly quickly and also marks the beginning of our HE journey and meeting the first of our HE friends.
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