Leah Loo, Jelly Boo, and Teddy Too: Happy Birthday, Jelly Boo!!

Juliet had a very nice birthday. Leah and I played hooky and we had a fun day all about Boo. We woke up and went to Toys R Us so Juliet could pick out a Baby Alive. She had been talking about one for a few months, and was thrilled to have her choice of the entire Baby Alive aisle. She picked out one that crawled and came with a carrier. Then, we went to Target and spent her gift card from Miss Melissa. Then, we picked up Happy Meals and went to her babysitter's house where she had lunch with her "birthday twin" Gibson and played there for a bit. We came back home and she took a nice nap while I made her favorite chocolate cake. After Daddy came home, we went to downtown Plymouth and shopped at a Crystal Store and then had dinner at Bario. Juliet ate her weight in chips and cheese. We came home again, opened a few more presents, sang "Happy Birthday", and ate cake. Then, we watched Sing. What a perfect fifth birthday for Jelly Boo.

Juliet,

Happy FIFTH BIRTHDAY! I can hardly believe it. You love dolls--baby dolls and American Girls. You love to accessorize them and mix and match their clothes.

Your favorite foods are cinnamon sugar bagels, chips and cheese, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, popsicles (raspberry and lemon lime), raisins, fruit, and cottage cheese. You typically drink chocolate milk, "cow milk", or water. Unlike Leah, you enjoy trying new foods.

You love to draw and write. One of my favorite things you do is draw pictures for us. On them, you will write J+M, J+L, or J+D (depending on who it is for). You used to rush your pictures, but now you often take your time. We love what you come up with. Lately, you are more into writing. You wrote a school paper yesterday, made three copies, and hung one in every room. The paper says, "The school is good but it needs to be better". That's some great journalism right there. You are doing really well at mastering all of the "sight words" introduced this year. You are also doing great with 1-20 number identification. You tend to get bored of counting after about 30 or 40 and purposely mess up after that to try to get a laugh out of us, and just be done. Your teachers claim you can count to 100, but I've never seen it. You've just started showing an interest in learning to read, so we've been practicing that a little bit, too.

You love God and Jesus. Real Life Farm's bible story time has had a great impact on you. We can't get you started on religion because it ends up with you yelling "GOD MADE EVERYTHING!!" That means God made coats, people, and countries. Nothing else contributed to these things. Only God. Leah sometimes parrots Daddy's view of religion which makes you so mad. You love God and Jesus. You love the 10 Commandments. When someone breaks one, you let us know. You ask to go to church often. We said we would go for your birthday, but needed to reschedule because it was also Mother's Day. Maybe we'll get there soon. You hate Donald Trump, and asked if we could move to Hawaii, because there is no way that Donald Trump would ever go to Hawaii.

You love to sing and dance. For a long time, you loved Glee and made us watch an episode every day. Then it got a little too mature, and we had to stop. You love to watch series of shows in order. So far, that I can remember, you've watch the entire series and loved Mia and Me, Sophia, Shimmer and Shine, and Elena of Avalor. Currently, you and Leah are watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Amazon. Both of you like it a lot. You love to make up songs and call them "Juliet originals". You love musicals and love to sing along with the Evita, Matilda, and Beauty and the Beast sound tracks.

You love school, but really cherish your "stay at home days". Leah and I love to get out and wander Target and other stores and then go out to lunch. But you really prefer to stay at home if possible. That's really interesting to me because you are so social and outgoing. Your teachers and baby-sitters love to tell me the adorable comments you make throughout the day. You love your friends and love to play with them, but are always excited for Saturday and Sunday when you can stay at home and play with your toys.

You love to play with Leah. You are very generous and giving to her, and often let her "convince" you to go along with her plan. When you put your foot down, though, it gets pretty funny. You get mad that you always give Leah what she wants, and she gets mad that you are suddenly not giving her what she wants, and you both stomp around and yell. Typically, you both play well together and are the best of friends.

You love to play outside on the swings, seesaw, and with our fairy house. You love to dress yourself and come up with really exciting outfits. When you get your own choice, you love to mix and match skirts, leggings, and cardigans. If you had your ultimate choice, you would wear a maxi dress everyday. You love to brush your own hair like Marcia Brady and put on headbands all by yourself. If it can be avoided, you ALWAYS try to get out of brushing your teeth.