Jenna

What do you say about Jenna? She is a really easy going girl. Her biggest interest is miniatures. She loves anything that is smaller than the original. She's got miniature animals, purses, dishes, and even loves Polly pockets over Barbies because they are smaller. She even likes miniature food. Won't eat sandwiches all that well, but if I cut them into smaller triangles (like eigths not fourths) she'll eat them better.

She's pretty independent. Likes to play by herself more than any of the other kids. It is not uncommon for her to just go down to the basement and play. In fact the other day, she was kind of bugging me and so I said, "Why don't you go play in the basement?" And she goes, "But it's scary, I'm afraid of the dark." I told her, "No you're not." And she says, "I know." Our biggest worry though is sometimes when you think that she is just off playing quietly by herself, you'll go and check on her only to find that she's fallen asleep somewhere. Which is a huge bummer because if she takes any sort of nap, she can be up pretty late. So sometimes, we have to assign one of the other kids the job of keeping Jenna awake.

She started dance this year at the same place Melissa takes dance from. She calls the other girls in her class the "Tutu girls." Don't really know how she does, we carpool with the little girl next door, and I haven't ever gone in and watched. They don't really like you to, it seems to distract the girls. She seems to be learning stuff because I'll ask her what she does and she'll show me some moves, like her shuffle step and shuffle toe. I also saw her one day doing one of the dances she's learned standing on the fireplace hearth, using it like a stage.

She is more into dolls than Melissa ever was. And maybe again it is the miniature thing. It is nice because we bought Melissa doll stuff when she was little and she never used it much. Nice to see it getting some use. Jenna is also in a play group one day a week, and she really looks forward to playing with her friends. At church yesturday she spent quite a bit of time trying to scope them all out and see where they were all sitting.