I finally got in to see my pediatrician (for a slightly delayed 4 year visit).  My vital stats are: height of 3 feet, 4 and 3/4 inches, and weight of 38 pounds.  This puts me around the 60th percentile for kids my age, but I definitely fight above my weight!

This has been the summer of snacks for me.  I’ve learned to try to negotiate the eating of “healthy food” (loosely defined, as I include things like pizza in that category) for the promise of future treats.  Top on my list are cupcakes/cake of any variety, ice cream, and black & white cookies.  Well, the black part of black & white cookies.  The good people at Table Talk Diner are familiar enough with my dessert order and my eating habits that they actually custom made an all black cookie just for me.  That was a red letter day!

Big on my list these days?  Dinosaurs.  On a recent trip to D.C. to celebrate my baby cousin’s first birthday, my family took me to see the dinosaur bones at the natural history museum.  I was very impressed by the T-Rex, although I think my mouth may actually be bigger, proportionally speaking.

I’m also really and passionately interested in Disney’s Lion Guard and Lion King.  I’ve never seen the feature-length movie, but I have the soundtrack.  I demand that my Mommy play it over and over again in the car on the way to school, and I sing along at the top of my lungs.  I probably only get 60% of the words right, but what I lack in accuracy I make up for in enthusiasm.  Some of my parents’ favorite mispronunciations are: “when I was a young warthog” = “when I was a one yort-hog,” “our teeth and ambitions are bared,” = “our teeth and our missions are bared,” and “the world for once in perfect harmony” = “the world for once in perfect enemies.”  I scoff if anyone tries to correct me.

I’m so into the Lion King that I recently told my mom I want to be a king when I grow up.  Mostly I just want to be in charge of somebody.  Anybody, in fact.  I try desperately to control my sister, but she’s seldom compliant, and Mommy and Daddy wind up reminding me I’m not the boss of her.  I asked whether I can be the boss of my brother (I named him Rocksteady).  They said okay, so I guess I’ll take it.

Current likes: car ride sing alongs

Current dislikes: letting anyone else choose the music