Alexey - almost 8

Alexey is adorable.  Alexey loves to laugh, loves to have fun, loves to be with everyone. She is a yellow personality.  She likes to try to kiss Dave on the lips to be funny. Everything is a game. She makes friends easily, she is fearless, will talk to everyone, loves everyone.

Lexey looks up to her big sister Clare.  Recently Clare started playing tennis and now tennis is Lexey's newest passion.  After Lexey started, Clare decided to switch classes to be with more kids her age but Lexey is still really liking her class and has made a new best friend there. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that this girl lives around the corner from us. Amazing!

Lexey takes jazz dance class on Mondays. She is in the upper age for the class (class is for kids k-2 grade), which has been nice for her since she is able to master all the moves in the class and gain confidence.

Piano is going really well for Lexey. She is a quick learner and does really well at practicing. She rarely complains or cries about practice and 90% of the time can get all her practicing done by herself without me sitting with her. She is awesome.    In spite of how much she loves it, she sometimes gives Holly Franz a hard time saying "piano wastes my whole day". Then she pulls out a book and says, "oh, I love this song." so we are hardly convinced. She is very dramatic!

Lex is super helpful around the house. She will read to jo, put things away for me, go get things, clean up after herself, etc. She is cheerful and happy most of the time, occasionally a little grumpy and then on an extremely rare occasion will completely lose it (usually due to excessive hunger).

Speaking of hunger Lexey loves food! She is a good eater. Here are some of her favorites: Breakfast - eggs and toast, egg mcmuffin, french toast, crepes, oatmeal with brown sugar, instant oatmeal - brown sugar, peach, strawberry.  Lunch - peanut butter on bread (no jam), oranges, ham sandwitch, pasta and sauce with meatballs, yogart. Snack - cheerios and yogart, bagel pizza, apples and peanut butter, carrots (she'll go to the fridge and get a carrot out, peel it and eat it). Dinner - spagetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes and meatballs, tacos with meat, ham, toast with butter.  In-n-out cheeseburger!
least favorites: beans, peas

School is going well for Lex. She has some good friends on the playground, she has been buddies with since K, and also some new friends from her class this year. She loves her teacher Mrs. Ramin, who reads wonderful Kate DiCamillo novels in class and does a great job of creating a save school environment for the kids. Lexey is great at math. She gets 100% on all math tests and is a wiz. Maybe she got Dave's math genes.

Lex loves Star Wars and Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.

Lexey loves her dad. She likes to spend time with him when he's home  -- watching TV, playing ticket to ride, going to Calvin's basketball, daddy daughter dates, or anything.

This is what our mornings look like. PJ's and piano before school. Meyer has started to like sitting under the piano bench while the girls play. He makes a good foot rest.

 Lexey LOVES her daddy!

 Lex got a game TENZI for her birthday a few years back. It is her favorite! She plays as often as she can.