Taelyn - 6 Years Old

Taelyn is six years old today, and it quite often feels like she is six going on sixteen!  She is becoming more and more interesting in the latest electronic toys and games and has an ever-increasing vocabulary.  Her absolute favorite toy is her Ferby who she cares for by feeding it each day, giving it a shower, playing games with it, and decorating its room (all a part of the app on the iPad that goes with the Ferby).  Taelyn also has really gotten into Minecraft lately and likes to create and name dogs in her own special world to care for.  So far, she has gone through a couple of different dogs named Pink and Taelyn - when one dies, she makes a tombstone and then creates a new dog with the same name.  Another app that Taelyn likes is Video Star where she gets together with Kaelia to make music videos.  Here is a sample of some of her work!

Speaking of music, Taelyn's favorite singer is currently Taylor Swift because Taylor sounds sort of like Taelyn.  She especially likes the song, "Shake it Off" and chose that for her Smilebox slideshow song at the bottom of this post.

Taelyn is also a very creative thinker.  She loves science and coming up with new innovative ideas.  She will sometimes set up her own laboratory in her bathroom and mix together different household products to see what will happen.  She will first come up with a prediction and then test it to see if it is true.  Taelyn is also continuing new ideas for her inventor's notebook and says that she hopes she will be in a book some day like other great inventors.  Some of her latest inventions are the Freezerwave (like a microwave but it cools down food that is too hot) and the Double Toothbrush (a toothbrush with bristles on the top and bottom so you can brush all of your teeth at once).

In school, Taelyn has been progressing with her reading, writing, and math.  She has moved up from a level 1 to a 7 since the start of the school year with her reading homework and uses strategies to help her with words that she doesn't know.  She can also count past 100 and understands the patterns of 100, 200, 300, etc.  She has been learning how to count by 2's, 5's, and 10's.

Taelyn has a great group of friends at school as well.  She plays mostly with five other girls in her class while her closest friends are Dana (from Australia), Lana (from Sudan), and Gaby (from South Africa).

Taelyn is now 44 lbs. and 45 inches tall.

This photo slideshow made with Smilebox