Lauren Faith: Lauren

An interview with Lauren Faith, age 4

Here are the questions I asked Lauren on her birthday this year, and her responses. (I still feel like some of her answers were just whatever she was looking at or eating that day...)

What is your favorite:

Food: Olive and Cheese Pizza

Toy: My Little Ponies

Game: Who Shook Hook (Jake and the Neverland Pirates)

Color: Purple

Fruit: Cherries

Snack: Clif Chocolate Chip Bar

Breakfast: Waffles

Lunch: Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jelly Sandwich with apples

Dinner: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (only the single serve bowls)

Song: Call Me Maybe

TV show: Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Little Mermaid,

Outfit: Dresses

Animal: Lion and tiger

Book: BINGO

Song: ABCs and BINGO

Holiday: Christmas

Drink: milk

Cereal: Honey Nut Cheerios

What do you take to bed with you at night: LaLa (AKA “Pinkie”), Ariel

What do you want to be when you grow up? “A mommy with 5 kids: 2 boys, then 2 girls then one more boy”

Who is your best friend? Kaitlyn and Cartney

What is your favorite thing to do with Colson? Play and roar

What do you like to do? “Play crafts and hula hoop”

When I grow up, I want to be a mommy because I want to have babies.

What pets do you have? a dog “Yow-den”, and “a pet fish that died. And Logan that had an owie”

What does your Mom do while you are at the gym? Work out and “kick it out”

What is your mom’s favorite TV show? Mommy shows

What does your mom say a lot? Honey and baby

What do you like best about your Mom? Her heart and her dresses

Where does your Dad work? Mazda, where they make cars.

What is daddy’s favorite TV show? Daddy shows

What do you like best about Dad? His heart.

Lauren Faith, 4 year old pictures

Lauren at age 4

My baby girl is 4 today!!

Lauren is such a character these days using expressions like "I promise" and "no, for real" "that's annoying me" and other funny things.

She is a very imaginative little girl who likes to play with her princesses, can tell you all the names of the My Little Pony characters, loves to play board games and can put a puzzle together faster than I can. She is amazing. I love her so much!

Lauren loves to sing and dance, do tricks and gymnastics and can spend hours coloring and doing crafts. She loves to play with Colson and help him learn different things. She is a great big sister but often whines that she wants to be a baby again. She is such an affectionate and cuddly kid that I think she misses out on the extra affection since I am not carrying her all the time.

At her 4 year checkup she weighed 35 pounds (50.5 percentile) and is 39.5 inches tall (44th percentile). The doctor said she was taller than she was heavy, but my online calculator said the opposite. But she is right in the middle either way and is just perfect.

She had her eyes tested and although she didn't get a perfect score, she passed. I think the test was a little long for a 4 year old and she was just bored and saying anything by the end. She tested 20/25 with both eyes, 20/30 with her Left and 20/40 with her Right eye. That was the order the nurse did the test and I am not surprised she did worse as the test went on. It was even long for me!

Lauren also passed her hearing test and talked Dr. Cheng's ears off about her favorite things to do. Lauren had to get 2 shots and I warned her about them. She said she was going to be brave and then I promised her a special treat after. Lauren definitely cried when she got her shots, but she was over it shortly after. She has mentioned several times since then that she doesn't like shots and doesn't want them again. Luckily she doesn't have to get anymore until she is 11!

Immediate Family Celebration (AKA Party #2)

Of course we had to have a family party tonight also! Plus we had some presents to open from family and family friends also!

Lauren wasn't complaining about having to blow out her candles again...

or eating cake and ice cream twice in one day!

blowing out her candles

Lauren took a few tries to blow out her candles this year, but she finally got the hang of it!

and gave me a big hug! LOVE THIS GIRL!!

Lauren got several very thoughtful gifts from her friends and an extra special bug net, and bug house from Grandma and Poppi Wayne.

some more little Vikings

I loved these little Viking hats that Lauren begged me to get for her party. This is part of why she decided on the "How to Train Your Dragon " theme. She had to have these hats!

The kids seemed to like them and most wore them for most of the party too!

Party Guests

ZOE

TATUM

KAIDY

AND BABY SISTER, EMILY

ADDISON

AND BIG BROTHER, LINCOLN

AND LITTLE BROTHER, SEBASTIAN

Lauren's 4th birthday continues

After the kids bowled, they came back to the party room to decorate their own dragon. They enjoyed the craft and then it was time to eat! Everyone was hungry and ready for some yummy pizza.