Last week Ashtyn turned 5 years old. I just can't believe how fast she has grown. She is my little miss smarty pants and always keeps me on my toes. This girl is going somewhere in life. She knows what she wants and knows how to get it on her own.
Here are a couple things about Ashtyn:
*She has always seemed older than she is. Even at 2 months old she didn't act her age.
*She started talking at 8 1/2 months old. NO JOKE! I thought it was so cute when she was so little, but now, I am not so sure. J/K. She was saying mama, dada, goggy (doggy), and bye-bye.
*At 2 she was singing about 5-6 primary songs, all on her own, and to the right tune!Songs like "I love to see the temple, I am a child of god, popcorn popping, I belong to the church of Jesus Christ, teach me to walk in the light." She could also sing the ABC's and spell her name by herself.
*She loves girly things. Actually that's an understatement, She LOVE LOVE LOVES girly things. She has been obsessed with dress-ups since about 2 1/2. She went through this crazy phase around age 3 where she would change her clothes/dress-up dresses about 10 times a day. NO exageration! She loves jewelry, make-up, dresses, skirts, shoes, anything girly!
* She loves to learn about anything! She likes to know what words mean and remembers it all. Also, she likes to learn facts about random things and loves it.
*She is one who will try and push the rules EVERY time. She likes to tell others what to do and how to do it. (Like most girls who are the oldest!) She knows what she wants and will do anything to get it. I hope she stays like this her whole life because it will really pay off.
*She loves her little brothers and would play pretend all day. She loves her friends and bugs me to play with them every second of the day.
She is such a fun little girl, full of SO much energy and we are so glad she is in our family. I wouldn't change her for the world!
She was such a beautiful perfect baby!
8 months old
About 18 months old
Just turning 3
4 years
The BIG 5
She had a really fun 5th birthday. She had a friend party first and then my family came over later that night for presents and cake. One funny thing I want to remember is that I told my mom that she loves tape. She is always using my tape for completely random things so I thought she might like her own tape. My mom wrapped her up a roll of scotch tape along with her other gifts. Ashtyn wanted to open it very first. So she opens it up and says,
"TAPE, all you got me was TAPE?!" She was pretty disappointed but it was really funny to hear her response.
Then it was time to open a present from aunt Candice. Before opening it she said:
" I hope this isn't one like the tape!"
You probably had to be there to really get just how funny it was!
I may get around to posting her party pictures, but we only took pictures of her opening the presents. Maybe someday though....
I have had so much fun doing these birthday posts looking back at all my pictures of the kids. It is just so crazy how time flies and how things change so fast. It makes me a little sad, but each stage is so much fun too!
