I love Lily's imagination right now! She is so much fun to talk with because you just never know what she is going to say, or what kind of a song she may come up with. Often while we're eating, I will remind her to actually eat her meal and she'll reply "I can't help it; I just love to talk." A few days ago, I came home from work, and Lily showed me the games she had come up with. Now, it's not unusual for her to come up with some sort of game or play for us to act out; she loves being the "cruise director" as the Mommy Morning Out director called her last year. This time though, she had actually drawn out her games on paper and had come up with rules and a point to the game.
This one was my favorite. Lily drew an ice cream cone with 15 scoops of ice cream and a cherry on top. The point of the game is to figure out how to eat all 15 scoops of ice cream and the cherry before they fall down and break the cone. I promise we don't give her this much ice cream!
This one isn't a game, but it's her drawing of a house. I drew the square house and triangle roof for her (I know they look like a 4 year old drew them, but no, that was me), and then she added the chimney, extra rooms (bathroom on the top right and kitchen on the bottom left), fans in every room, steps going upstairs (that's the squiggly line going across the big square) decorations to each room, a sun, clouds and Granna coming in the front door. As she was coloring this, she thought through and then told me each detail she was adding.
Another game she invented. This is a picture of a cat. You are supposed to show the cat how to walk through the maze (the blue line) before the snake (that's the yellow line on the cat's back) scares the cat.
This is Lily's sticker playground. I remember the big line of stickers on the left is her hopscotch board, but I don't remember all the other details. I believe there are two kids playing jump rope and someone else climbing a tree. There is also a sun, lots of clouds and a sky.
I couldn't get this picture to turn properly on here, but this is the maze Lily came up with. The person starts in the middle (see little blue person), and you try to get her to the "N." I guess Lily thinks when we do mazes I am saying "there's the n" instead of "there's the end." According to her, if you go to the bottom right, that's a hole, the bottom left is hot lava, the middle left is the sun, and Lily (she wrote out her name) is on the top left. She loves doing puzzles and mazes!
Nothing terribly exciting about this next one, but I wanted to put it on here. Lily and I went to Chick-fil-a's family night last week (free kids' meal with adult purchase - score!), and they were offering free spin art. I used to love spin art as a kid. Honestly, I cannot wait until the girls are old enough to have one of the small spin art sets for our home; I fully plan to use it more than them! Anyway, Lily thought it was awesome too, so I put this on here to remind me of our fun evening together.
This is Lily's picture of her playing basketball. She drew herself with long blond hair (she likes to say it's really long like Rapunzel's, but it's cut above her shoulders), and she put a basketball sticker at the end of her hand which is raised as if she is shooting the ball. She then said "I'm going to scribble the rest orange because you play basketball on an orange field but I don't want to really color it." She then decorated with little star stickers "to make the field prettier."
The rest of these pictures are purely for me to have record of what Lily did at this age. Back around Easter (yep, just now getting around to putting it on here), Liz helped Lily make a few books. Lily would dictate a story to Liz, Liz would write and then Lily would decorate the cover. So, here are the books they made; I hope you can read the stories.
Lily is really start to enjoy learning how to read, and she works on rhyming words a lot. Here's a book that she and Liz made together to help with that skill.
Our 4 and 1/2 year old is so precious; what a fun age!
