Happy 6th and 9th Birthday Leo & Lily!
Happy 6th and 9th Birthday Leo & Lily! Leo stretches 3’10” and weighs 44.7lbs! Leo has been developing so much in the past year. He can eat almost everything now (that he’s not allergic to) except soupy things. He is good at holding the food himself and taking big bites out of it but now that he’s starting to lose his baby teeth, it’s a little more challenging since he doesn’t know to bite from the side of his mouth. No worries Leo, mommy will cut up the pieces of food for you!!! Some of his favorite foods are pizza, cheeseburgers, ham and cheese croissant from Starbucks haha, anything chicken, and chocolates! He also like chips and tons of different crackers and gold fishes, apple sauce and yogurt! He likes strawberries, blueberries and blackberries and looooves bananas. He still drinks pediasure about once to twice a day to keep up with his calorie intake! He also likes the mango dragonfruit drink at Starbucks and smoothies from my café!! He also drinks water like a camel haha! I’m so proud with how much he finally loves food!!
Leo is starting to read and is really good with making sounds of each letter!!! He will sometimes call the letters by the sound instead of the letter names since that’s how he learned it, which is great for reading skills! Leo can also count to 20 pretty well, we are just working more on counting objects instead of just counting to 10 or 20 each time haha. He loves reading time and listening to stories!
Leo likes making with dolls and figurines. He likes to also put them in his mouth due to his sensory needs. Leo is a huge fan of Spider-Man and all the marvel superheroes like the hulk, iron man, and captain America. He likes to stand in front of the mirror and pretend to shoot spider webs from his hands or sometimes flex his muscles like the hulk. It’s super cute!!! Leo also loves music and dancing and he’s learning more words to songs and loves to sing along to al his favorite tunes even if it’s not completely clear, it’s still super cute!! 
This past year has been so difficult for many reasons, zoom therapy and schooling is not very productive for Leo but I’m so glad to see him still making progress this past year. I’m super proud of Leo and his physical development is around a 24 month old, but he is just so smart amazing!!! He is starting to jump more, we are just working on him bending his knees more before jumping but he’s able to jump about 8 inches out!!! So great!!! He loves swimming in the pool with his floaty vest! He isn’t afraid to hold his breathe and go under the water either! He’s super sweet and very empathetic to others emotions as well. Leo is going to be done with kindergarten next week and will then be officially a first grader!! He’s so friendly and social, he loves everyone and has no stranger danger or separation anxiety haha. I feel like I say this every time but I’m so constantly amaze by all that he’s achieved and overcome! I love you so much my petite prince Leo!!! I can’t wait to see what more amazing things you will do and achieve. Happy Birthday my adorable son, mommy is so proud to have you!!!!
Happy 9th Birthday Lily!! Lily is 4’2” and weighs 51.4lbs! Lily loves all kinds of noodles, especially garlic noodles. She likes broccoli and corn and will eat pretty much all kinds of sea food, but for some reason, all other meats are not impressive to her, even the fanciest steak in town, she will not eat it with much enthusiasm haha. Her favorite restaurants are Olive Garden and Chili’s and anything with crab and noodles haha. She likes all kinds of snacks as well except she’s not into cakes. Unique child haha. She enjoys doing lots of arts and crafts and likes to draw and color. She’s getting
more detailed and creative in her drawings, she like to draw sloths, puppies, animals and her family! Lily likes crocheting and knitting and has become pretty quick and diligent at it too! Lily just finished the 3rd grade (year 3 month 9) and her end of the year math and reading scores shows that she’s at a 5th grade level (year 4 month 9)! Wow Lily, you are so smart!! Even with distance learning, she still managed to keep up with her studies and excel! I’m so proud of you my Lily pad!
Lily has mastered riding her bike with no training wheels, but also picked up some new outdoor sports as well. Lily learned how to roller skate, and now roller blading! She prefers roller blading over roller skating, maybe because I have roller blades too, so we match. She also picked up longboarding within 5 minutes! She is so fearless and I admire her bravery and her positive enthusiastic attitude when approaching new things! I need to get myself a longboard so that she and Alex can teach me haha. Perhaps I’ll have better luck with that than a skateboard maybe? She also really enjoys playing tennis still and needs to upgrade to a bigger tennis racquet since she’s getting bigger! Where did my baby go?? At least I can save her old racquet for Leo now! Lily also had her 1st communion and received the Holy Eucharist! I’m so super proud of Lily for completing her 2 years of religious education at St. Denis Catholic Church. She really embraced all the teachings and I’m so happy her hear her say that she wants to be the best version of herself possible!!! I cannot be any more proud!
Lily enjoys working on jig saw puzzles, but also word searches and spot the difference type of games! Lily likes to play board games now too. Alex and I introduced her to Catan Jr and Dominion and she totally caught on right away and had so much fun! Yay to another board gaming buddy!! Lily also likes sloths to the point where it’s an obsession like her momma, and enjoys drinking boba, especially with taro or ube milk tea! Lily likes to play with slime still…it’s a love hate relationship with me and slime… Lily also enjoys playing with Legos and putting together fun Lego sets. She enjoys building things and doing science experiments and projects as well. She’s an amazing little helper and would love helping me do things from helping me cook, bake, and even folding the laundry and vacuuming. Lily is so sweet and kind, she has a generous heart and is so mature and wise for her age. She’s growing up so fast, but I’m still so grateful she enjoys giving and receiving hugs and kisses!!! I will cherish all our snuggles on the couch together and all the enthusiastic “Mommy!” from her every time I pick her up from school. I love watching you grow into your own independent, confident, healthy little person and I can’t wait to see more amazing things you’ll do!! I love you so so so much my sweet Lily pad. Happy 9th birthday, you make mommy so proud, I love you 3000 times infinity!!!
Here’s their annual birthday videos, enjoy!!
