Shaylah's 8 year old update

Shaylah turned 8 years old in March, so this is a little late.  She is helping me with this post.

Favorite color:  turquoise (green/blue)
Favorite food:  any junk food, but especially ice cream cake.  She also loves fruit of any kind, vanilla yogurt and cereal.  Breakfast is her best meal of the day.  She struggles to eat at dinner time.
Favorite song:  Let it Go (from the movie Frozen).  This is an improvement from "You Don't Know You're  Beautiful" by One Direction.
Favorite item to wear:  stretchy headbands (and her black pants)
Favorite school subject:  PE
Favorite sport:  She says soccer, but she complains about playing it for most of the season.  :)  She has a mean swing in softball too and loves to play either catcher or first base.  So sad the season just finished!
Favorite pastime:  She says play on the laptop, but truthfully she reads any spare moment she has.  She goes through a chapter book every day.  I have recently turned her to some longer books.  She is currently reading Anne of Green Gables and is loving it as much as I did as a kid.
Size:  wears 12 or 14, depending on the brand for clothes;  shoes size 4.5. She weighed in at 77 pounds this week and is as tall as my shoulder.  This kid grows like crazy!  She is taller than any of the grade 3 boys that were in her 2/3 split this year.
Worst habit:  sucking on her hair.  She does this constantly.  I have started making her shower every morning, just so that I don't have to comb through the sticky, knotted sections that she creates each day.
Marsalie's favorite trait:  a tie between her laugh and her freckles.  She is the only kid with freckles (which I adore!) and she is constantly giggling (much like her mother).
Dislikes:brushing her hair, wearing socks and shoes, tomato sauce, her brother Caelan (most annoying sibling, according to her)
Favorite electronic gadget: LAPTOP!!!!!  (Apparently she really likes the computer). :)
Favorite print: LEOPARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!             (I guess she really likes this too) :)

Shaylah is full of joy (most of the time).  She is a night owl, preferring to stay up late and sleep in.  She wants to be a famous pop star when she grows up and loves animals.  She likes to stay busy and is always asking to join more sports and/or classes.  This past year she took part in soccer, piano lessons, swimming lessons, softball, clay class, cross country running, and GEMS (Girls Everywhere Meeting the Saviour).  I have had to say "no" to ballet, karate, singing lessons and every other whim that crosses her mind.

She was in a grade 2/3 split this year and had the bonus of an enrichment teacher once a week at school.  She had a much better year emotionally this year, after separating her from a "friend" who gave her a really hard time last year.  I have made the same request for next year as well.  She is definitely a Mama's girl and we have a really close relationship, which I treasure.  This girl is one of the greatest joys of my life and I am so grateful that I get to be her Mom!