1. She loves to laugh and she loves to laugh HARD. She's not a giggler or a chuckler or even a guffawer...she is a laugh until your belly hurts and you can't breath anymore girl. If something is funny she wants it to last as long as she possibly can. Watch it again, tell it again, do it again. Just keep that laughin' going.
2. She is very observant. She comes home from school and tells me tidbits like, "Christian's Mom died because she took too much medicine and now his Dad has to find a new job. I hope he's not too sad." and "Miss Camie's favorite color is orange but she just wears black all of the time." When it was her birthday she said, "It's weird. I don't feel 6. I feel like I'm just still 5." and the same about Sierra's birthday, "She still just seems like she is 10 to me."
3. She does not like to solve her own problems. She just wants life to go smooth and easy and when it doesn't she often has a hard time coming up with a solution to it. She does not like to be assigned creativity. She hates coming up with sentences and drawings to match because she doubts her ability. My other kids have thoroughly enjoyed drawing and coloring in kindergarten, but Nikell keeps it as simple as possible with as few colors as possible and as few words as possible.
4. She is becoming an amazing reader. She still is unsure of just how good she is, but she is starting to really enjoy it and believe that she is a reader. She reads us a story or two every night before bed and even participates in scripture reading.
5. She doesn't like to let people down or have people mad at her. She wants everyone to be happy and will try her darndest to make it so. She is having some great life lessons at school realizing that it's not always her job to keep everyone happy and that unhappy people are less fun to be around. Her advice to Aiddie the other day was this, "Aiddie you shouldn't let other people decide if you are sad. If they are mad at you then you can still be happy. Just walk away and find someone else to play with."
6. I think her favorite thing to say is, "I wish..." Whenever she really really wants something (which is kind-of often), she doesn't ask or even say that she wants it, she wishes. "Oh, I wish I could have a cookie right now." "I wish I could play with someone like Sierra is." "I wish I had money to buy that."
7. She loves to sing. She sings loud and she sings clear. Although I haven't quite convinced her that I am a Child of God does not contain the words, "An Dearthly Home" Her favorite song is one she sang in Sacrament meeting, "Jesus Once Was a Little Child."
I love this kid...
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I'm glad you have captured these darling things about Nikell. She is a sweet girl with a kind heart.
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