All About Jillian – Age 5

Mommy and Daddy’s special names for me: Jilly, Jill, Jilly Bean, Bean, Boo Boo Chicken
Biggest accomplishments in the last 6 months: Taking a shower, learning more of her letters, writing her name very well, and coloring inside the lines.
Favorite foods are: Fruit snacks, mac-n-cheese with broccoli, sweets, cheese curls, fruit – especially mandarin oranges, pancakes, waffles.
Don’t like to eat: Meat. She is still not a big meat eater. She’ll eat chicken nuggets, hot dogs and Lunchables on occasion, but she is pretty much a vegetarian.
Favorite toys: Anything she can color or draw with, her iPad, her little princesses, and her newest obsession is Shopkins and blind bags.
Favorite books: She still loves all books, but her favorite book we have is Ten Little Puppies because the first dog in the book looks like Maxie.
Favorite things to do outside: Ride her scooter and play ball with her dad and brothers.
Favorite things to do inside: Play her iPad, watch Netflix, color, and cuddle with mommy and daddy.
Vocabulary includes: The things that come out of her mouth are hysterical, but some of her funniest sayings are when she uses big words. Like, “That is hideous.” Or when she sees something that will be exciting to her or her family she says “My brothers would freak out if they got that game.”
Likes to “help” Mommy & Daddy around the house by: Helping with the laundry, helping to cook dinner, basically anything we ask her to do, she will. She’s a big help when I need something and I ask her to go get it. She’ll bring it right back. No detailed directions like her brothers would need. Ha!
Loves to travel to: Mexico and New York City
Favorite movies are: Ninja Turtles, Zootopia, Inside Out, Frozen
Favorite TV shows: Odd Squad, Fuller House, Goosebumps, My Little Ponies…basically a lot of what is on Netflix.
Couldn’t live without: Her iPad, having her back patted at bedtime, juice and fruit snacks in the car, hugs from mom and dad.
Doesn’t like: Having her hair pulled up in a pony tail, having her hair brushed, getting up early in the morning for school, and boys stuff.
Favorite characters: Ninja Turtles (mainly Raphael), Disney Characters (Princesses, Dory, Judy Hops, Anger), Cookie Cookie (Shopkins), Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony)
Right now she’s learning: The last of my ABCs, letter sounds, counting to 20, and my sight words.
She gets very happy and excited when: She gets to go grocery shopping with Dad, it’s the weekend and she has stay at home days, new coloring books, opening blind bags, she gets to go somewhere new.
She gets mad when: I have to wake her up for school, she has to stop what she’s doing to take a bath.
She is scared of: Monsters, zoombies, skeletons, and spiders.
The best part about being 5 years old is: She gets to go back to Disney. She always asked when she turned the number 5 if she could go back to Rella’s Castle. And she is…Disney is book for Halloween time!
During the next year she hopes to: Learn to read, count to 30, write and spell some words, basically master Kindergarten.
Comments from Mommy & Daddy:
Our Favorite “Jilly-isms”:
- How she loves to sing in the car.
- Her imagination, especially when she is playing in the bath tub or pretend talking on the phone.
- How she still reaches up for my hand when were in a parking lot or in a store. I never have to ask her.
- How when I pat her back at night she always like me to scratch her bare back under her shirt, never through it.
- How she will ask me if we can do something together, just her and I for “quality girl time”.
- How she always wears her rain boots to play outside, even if it’s not raining, or snowing, or if it’s 90 degrees outside.
- Her love for bows. When we went to NYC the main thing she was concerned about was that I packed her bows.
- How she says she’ll protect us with her Ninja moves! 😉
And just like that, my baby girl is a whole handful – 5! Jillian, you have no idea how much you are loved. You have stolen my heart since the say you were born and fill my soul with unmeasurable happiness. Because of you I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a whole lot more. I thank my lucky stars every day for the gift of you in our lives.
These pictures from your birthday night sum up your personality perfectly. You are silly, sassy, a princess, our comedian, and you continue to be our breath of fresh air. Happiest of birthdays to you our dear Jillian!




