Mali Su is 5 Years 3 Months and 1 Day Old

She loves make-up (note the blue eye shadow I didn't notice she put on til after the pictures), her hair, and all things girly.

She does love to play video games with Daddy and does not forget when he tells her he'll play with her in a little while or after something else.

She cannot get enough of bugs, animals, frogs, or you name it, she wants to hold it and will kiss it.

She LOVES to help me, almost to a fault. I work so hard at being ever so patient and finding jobs for her to do when I'm working. Tonight as I did hair she stood there and handed me foils.

She loves to work on the garden with me and I need to just teach her what the weeds are so she can take over weeding.

She naturally poses and smiles without coaching. Her hand can be found on her hip in most pictures and her foot popped.

Her eye is doing great with glasses and they did just slightly up her prescription but it's still a very low prescription that straightens that right eye right out.

She is more like her Mama every single day. From her freckles, to her bossy-ness, to her inability to just say "yes ma'am" and not explain to me what she was doing or why she was doing it. The likeness stops me in my tracks sometimes.

She would live on the computer playing learning games if I let her, and sometimes I do when the boys have her at the end of her rope.

She starts preschool this summer and I am excited to see her excel in this social realm. I worry she will get in trouble for not worrying about herself and worrying about everyone else. Multiple times a day I have to ask her, "Mali Su, who do we worry about?" She then responds, "ourselves."

She became very upset recently (a couple of times) in primary when she follows the rules to a "T" and things do not go her way. Once she didn't get picked for something even though she was the one obeying the rules, this she could not understand. Then, once, the teacher helped the other kids during a game of "hot and cold" to find what she hid when she had done such a good job, she did not like the teacher "cheating." Rules are VERY important to her and she's a good follower of them. That comes from Mom and Dad, we both always just did what our parents told us to do, naturally "good kids."

She and Aimi Lark love to play chess (and other board games) together.

She asks a million and a half questions to understand things completely. Typical kid answers do not satisfy her, she asks questions that are in depth and full of thought. Today while driving she talked to me about the "great apostasy" and gave amazing details, not just basic Sunday School answers. Her brain really analyzes (that's from Daddy).

Her light blue eyes sparkle. She has finally sprouted a few inches and doesn't seem to be tall, but isn't as short as I thought she was when we recently measured. Her hair reaches to her bum and she gets compliments on it often.

She sneaks to brush her teeth. She once brushed her teeth twice back to back and I scolded her for doing so, asking why. She sang the song, "brush your teeth twice a day to keep away all tooth decay" and said she had to brush them twice. Smart girl. Makes sense.