Lilly is SEVEN!

August 18, 2020·

Here we are again… another trip around the sun for Lilly girl! This girl is seven years old and my mind is blown. I mean, I know I’ve been blogging for nearly 13/14 years now, but to think that many of you were here and reading this blog before I was pregnant, remember when I announced being pregnant, remember my pregnancy with Lilly, and now… here she is and she is SEVEN. That is just mind blowing to me. There’s something about the age of seven that just sounds so much older than six. Am I alone in this feeling?

Lilly just started first grade (virtually, obviously), and she’s in a dual language program learning Spanish. We are so thankful for how bright she is, her kind heart, and for how hilarious she is. She loves to dance and sing and play. She is currently Barbie OBSESSED and loves playing allllllll things Barbies. She has lost two teeth so far (BOTH had to be pulled by the dentist… YIKES).

In the past year she’s learned how to perfect riding her bike without training wheels, is learning how to swim, and is also learning how to roller skate. She’s the perfect mix of girly girl while also wanting nothing to do with wearing dresses or skirts – it’s shorts and tees for this girl. She loves her friends, her family, her neighbors, and just generally laughing and being a goof ball.

We are so thankful for this amazing young lady and I pray every day that she knows how much her Father in Heaven loves her and how much her parents here on earth love her.

As always, I share her annual birthday interview so that you can see a little bit more into the mind of this girl! I always write her answers exactly as she says them!

Happy Birthday, Lilly!

Here is Lilly’s annual birthday video:

GET TO KNOW LILLY: 50 BIRTHDAY QUESTIONS FOR MY SEVEN-YEAR-OLD

1. What is your favorite color? Light pink, purple, teal, black, Carolina blue… AND GREEN
2. What is your favorite song? Most songs.
3. What is your favorite food? Birthday cake pancakes and queso and guacamole and chips and what’s that thing called that I love a lot? Oh, edamame! Macaroni and cheese and think think think… cereal! And oatmeal. I love all foods with those foods in it… that explains what I do like.
4. Where is your favorite place to go to eat? Los Tres, but most places.
5. What is your favorite drink? Lemonade and water and milk
6. What are you really good at? Dancing
7. Who are your best friends? Lilliana, Catalina, Abagail, Lorelei, Ellie, Livy Penny, and Emma
8. What would you buy if you had $1,000? I’d buy a fancy house, not stuffy and not cramped.
9. What is your favorite memory? Disney Cruise
10. If you could have a wish, what would you wish for? I would wish for the world to be not broken and bad.
11. Who is your biggest hero? God
12. What do you like to do with your best friends? Play anything
13. What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher
14. What is your favorite show? Ducktales, Elena of Avalor, and Miles from Tomorrowland
15. What is your favorite movie? The Pirate Fairy and Monsters Inc and Monsters University and the Elena movie (mom note: this is all news to me… I thought she hated Monsters Inc.)
16. What is your favorite book? My earth fairy books and my new chapter books
17. What is your favorite animal? Goat, llama, owl, parrot, and toucans…. ooo! and cheetahs!
18. Where do you wish you could go on vacation? A nice comfy island with a hotel
19. What is your favorite piece of clothing? My jean shorts, my leopard shorts, and some of my t-shirts
20. What do you hope you will get to do before your next birthday? Swim across an olympic sized swimming pool
21. How much money do you think mommy and daddy have? $2,000
22. Where did daddy go to college? Carolina
23. Where did mommy go to college? You know, I really don’t remember.
24. Where are you going to go to college? Carolina
25. What one word would you use to describe your brother Amos? Ummm, maniac
26. What do you like most about daddy’s office? All of it
27. What is the farthest that you could run? 2 miles
28. What’s your favorite thing to do with Amos? Play toys and play with slime
29. What’s your favorite Bible story? Jonah and the whale and when Jesus came as a baby and when Jesus came back to life
30. What’s the happiest you’ve ever been? When I went to the Disney Cruise and Disney World when you surprised me on the Disney Cruise
31. What’s the best picture you’ve ever drawn? The one of my pop star Popsy
32. What’s the best wedding you’ve ever been to? Barbie and Ken’s wedding today
33. What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever done? Had a constipation
34. What’s something that always makes you laugh? When you guys laugh at me for saying something funny.
35. What do you want to do when you become an adult? Swim across TWO olympic size pools
36. What is daddy’s job? A helper who helps people with their money
37. What is mommy’s job? Social media
38. What’s the worst smell you’ve ever smelled? Daddy’s poop
39. What is something that makes mommy happy? When I make the funniest joke you’ve ever heard
40. What is something that makes daddy happy? He’s happy when he thinks that I told the funniest joke in the world.
41. What is something that mommy has taught you? She potty trained me
42. What is something that daddy has taught you? How to walk
43. Where would you like to travel to? Florida
44. What’s your favorite thing about being a big sister? I get to boss him around
45. Can you do a split? What’s a split by the way?
46. What do you want to be for halloween? Elsa, Frozen II Elsa… and then next time I want to be a bride and Amos can be the groom.
47. What language other than English would you like to be fluent in? Spanish…. Los Tres is back again.
48. Who is the tallest person you know? Daddy
49. Who is the prettiest person you know? Mama
50. What is your favorite thing mommy and daddy do for you? Give me presents for my birthday…. what? It’s my interview!