Malia is 7!

Malia is now 7... I have no idea when that happened. She is turning in to a really cool kid.

She decided she didn't want to paint her hands to get her handprints... doesn't like the feel of it. So she traced them instead and then decorated them.


Recently I took Malia to the store to get a new outfit... for the first time Malia was walking around the store, showing me what SHE liked. She made 4 different outfits on her own and then wanted to go into the dressing room to try on each one. We've never done dressing rooms before and it just seemed like an interesting milestone to me- more awareness about the difference of how an outfit looks on a hanger and how it looks/feels on your person. Then she proceeded to pick out which one she wanted completely on her own. It felt very "big kid" to me. She is really growing up.

Here she is though on her first day as a 7 year old.