a milestone diary of marlows sixth year

five years and one month (October)

you adore school and bounce in without turning back to say goodbye

not so keen on the walk to breakfast club

coming home with drawings and ‘popsicle puppets’ youve made every day

your weekly menu consists of pizza, hotdogs, spaghetti bolognaise or scrambled egg…. on repeat

still having nightly accidents

a braid in your hair every day - such a creature of habit

snuggling with your dad in the night and starfish in the bed

five years and two months (November)

suddenly no more night accidents (very rare!)

sleeping through in your own bed occasionally

magic magic diggery doo

eating margarita pizza, sausage (hot dogs) and spaghetti bolognaise… you no longer like eggies much

a birthday party with school friends almost every single weekend!

started your new breakfast club - making mum late for work but you are now OVER THE MOON

when i pick you up at after school club you are always sat at the drawing table

five years and three months (december)

super at sounding out words, reading simple sentences ‘i can hop and run and stop’ (and making mum and dad well up with tears of happiness)

more tears of happiness with your christmas performance

love playing dress up with wings and a wand

very excited for santa to visit

brushing your own hair

keen to be helpful, kind and make us proud

eager to stay up late as a treat

you talk about so many new friends in school

writing your own secret notes and cards for us with REAL words you've sounded out yourself and spelt

five years and four months (January)

you call your private parts, ‘priva-tea’ and vanilla ‘na-villa’

like to room to be neat and tidy always

hiding precious things in your hidey hole

doing your baby sisters makeup

in one of the top phonics groups at school and sometimes you can read us words now simply by looking at them

jumping with excitement to tell everyone santa brought you a dressing table

brushing your own hair in the morning

still frightened by ‘infloatables’ e.g inflatable bouncy castles and the like

we read our first big girl book together, the twits by roald dahl and every time i got to the end of chapter you asked me to read on

you like sleeping on top of the blankets

its taking a millennia to get you to sleep at night time

five years and five months (February)

you love wearing all your pretty dresses and having your hair half up half down with a ribbon clip

gems on your forehead and back of your hands

such a super reader

we moved on from roald dahl to enid blyton

you refer to your taste buds as ‘taste bugs’

five years and six months (march)

LOVING super kitties…. bitsy

cats in general, you talk about getting a cat when we get a house on the daily (a black cat you will name poppy)

s l i m e

you were so INCREDIBLY brave when you had some blood taken; you only got upset afterwards when you realised they put on a plaster

new favourite colours are pink and purple

five years and seven months (April)

back to roald dahl again for the b f g

you lost your front top left tooth at the dinner table eating heinz sphagetti bolognaise on 28th april 2025

you helped make your sisters birthday so special, stayed up till 1030pm decorating with us, and doing everything on the day to make her feel extra special

your favourite thing about nanny marjis 60th trip was having all the jones family together

you started learning to swim and we are so proud of you

you survive on very little sustenance

told me this month ‘i dont like elsa anymore’ and it nearly broke my heart, you are growing too quick

five years and eight months (may)

i introduced you to the animals of farthing wood

you lost your next big tooth on the 8th may 2025 when daddy accidentally knocked it out

still referring to ‘priva-tee’

tomato ketchup makes your mouth tingle, but you love it so much you can’t stop yourself

loving sausages

you adore delving into different worlds in story books, and when we get to the end of chapter before bed you beg, ‘just one more page!’

five years and nine months (June)

you still say ‘spass-getti’ … but recently phonetically sounded the work in your set 3 reading book ‘spag-hett-y’ and i saw your lil brain doing the math and it made mums heart sad that you are growing so quick

we finished our first famous five book

you are so gentle with grandads old storybooks and you are cherishing them as much as i do

lining up all your teddies in your bed at night

forever putting off bedtime

playing ‘guess who’

sleeping through frequently for nutella breakfast

bathing with your goggles on, putting your ears and face underwater and blowing bubbles

five years and ten months (July)

your fifth tooth (bottom second on right) fell out on sunday 13th july right before bed and you were so happy

you paused when reading the word ‘amimal’ because thats not how you learnt it

finally agreed to wear leggings

kicked off the start of our summer holidays with so many playdates

five years and eleven months (August)

you still hate bedtime

onto our fourth famous five book

another molar is pushing through (back left)

drawing the most incredible pictures and favouring crayons at the moment

camping time!

you began calling me mama again of your own accord

Six years young!

a new house… a new class and another year older this month

in one of the top reading groups for your year - way ahead of where you are expected to be

running in to draw in your new playroom as soon as you get home from school

climbing all over ‘the big babu’ like a climbing frame

so considerate of your little sister

as cheeky as ever

and surrounded by friends