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And just like that, they are five. They are no longer little kids, they are BIG kids. We celebrated quite a few times this year. Their birthday was on a Thursday, so we let them open some gifts that morning. Then, we had a birthday party with their friends from school at a local bowling alley. Then, we had a cousins' birthday party with even more cake and gifts!

Thought I would keep the tradition going of doing the birthday questionnaire... it's fun to see how their answers change (or don't change) from the previous year.

Birthday Questionnaire
1. What is your favorite color?

A: purple, pink and white

M: blue and red

2. What is your favorite toy?

A: big rainbow bear (that she sleeps with - she seriously can't go anywhere without this thing!)

M: LOL dolls

3. What is your favorite fruit?

A: strawberries

M: cantaloupe

4. What is your favorite TV show?

A: Sofia the First

M: My Little Pony

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?

A: Peanut butter sandwich or Pizza or Mac-n-Cheese

M: Mac-n-Cheese

6. What is your favorite outfit?

A: Dresses!

M: Jeans - comfy and nice (those were her exact words - ha!)

7. What is your favorite game?

A: Hello Kitty Nail Salon (on her Kindle)

M: Hello Kitty Nail Salon (on her Kindle)

8. What is your favorite snack/treat?

A: Chocolate, fruit snacks, goldfish
M: Goldfish, Mix (mix of peanuts, cashews, m&m's, etc)

9. What is your favorite animal?

A: Flamingos

B: Horses (I am super surprised she didn't say dogs here - she is obsessed with dogs!)

10. What is your favorite song?

A: Can't Stop the Feeling (Trolls) - Justin Timberlake
M: Same (they LOVE this song!)

11. What is your favorite book?

A: Disney Characters (we have a book that has a page for almost every popular Disney character)
M: Spider Man 5 Minute Stories

12. What is your favorite thing to have for breakfast?

A: Donuts
M: Pumpkin Spice Cheerios (a girl after my own heart!)

13. What is your favorite thing to do outside?

A: Play on swing set
M: Tag

14. What is your favorite drink?

A: Cranberry juice
M: Apple juice

15. What is your favorite vegetable?

A: Carrots
M: Broccoli

16. What do you like to take to bed with you at night?

A: Big rainbow bear (yep, same one as before)
M: Twilight Sparkle stuffed animal

17. What do you want to be when you grow up?

A: Ballerina
M: Firefighter

18. What makes you happy?

A: Seeing rainbows
M: Sunshine

19. What makes you sad?

A: Rain

M: When people be a bully at me

20. What do you want for your birthday?

A: LOL dolls

M: Sugar and Spice LOL dolls

We had their 5 year old check-up and the girls keep getting bigger! ;) Avery is still a bit shorter and slightly heavier than Morgan. Avery is 43.75 inches and 41.3 lbs. Morgan is 45.25 inches and 40.9 lbs. For comparison, I was 45.25 inches and 42 lbs at 5 years old. So, Morgan is trending to be a giant like me - ha!

I was reading what I wrote about the girls on their 4th birthday and it pretty much all still applies.

Morgan and Avery are very much opposites, but they are still the best of friends and play really well together. We've gotten to a great stage where the girls will just go in the other room and play for hours together without much intervention from Matt or me. One of their favorite toys right now are LOL Surprise dolls. We have those dolls and their tiny accessories all over the house. And the girls love to switch the heads and bodies around, so we have tiny headless bodies lying around as well. The girls also love playing dress up and restaurant (Matt and I are frequent customers). Avery is still into arts and crafts, while Morgan loves all superheroes.

At school, they are in the PreK2 class, which is a smaller class of kids that turned 5 just after Sept 1st (aka the "Late for the Date" room). Their teacher is Miss Mikayla. We get pictures most days and sometimes little reports of what the kids are up to at school. We ask the girls who they play with at school and what sort of things they like to do. Avery and Morgan tend to play with different kids, which I think is great. I never wanted them to just play with each other at school and then at home. Avery's best friends at school are Hannah, Chloe and Maddie. Morgan's best friends at school are Grayson (her cousin) and Amalia. They both love playing in the kitchen area at school and with the building toys. Avery is more into coloring and brings home a stack of papers every night with her artwork. Morgan is more into active play, so we hardly ever see coloring pages from her. :)

As far as personality, Morgan is the extrovert and Avery is the introvert. Morgan knows everyone's name at school from the janitor to the bus driver to all the coaches and she says "hi" to all of them when she walks by. Morgan wears her heart on her sleeve and she gets her feelings hurt easily. One day on the way home from school, she cried the whole way telling us some story about how she is always so nice to everyone and someone at school was mean to her and she didn't understand why someone would be mean to her when she was nice to them. It really upset her and was surprising to Matt and me that it affected her so much.

Avery is much more reserved. She's also got a stubborn streak, which comes from her Dad. :) She thinks things and processes on a different level than Morgan. She's much more analytical (wonder where that comes from - ha!) We can tell Morgan something and she will take what we say at face value. Not Avery. She likes to know how things work and why things happen and asks a lot of questions. Avery is also a nervous child. She gets anxious before going new places and wants to know what's going to happen when we get there. She doesn't like surprises. She gets a lot of tummy aches, which I can totally relate to. I was that same nervous child and I remember getting stomach aches all the time as a kid, even at her age.

Happy Birthday, Avery and Morgan! We love you!