Alexis Karen Dart

Alexis was so excited that she got tagged by her friend Isaac. Here are 8 fun facts about Alexis:

1. Alexis’ favorite things: She loves to paint and only wishes she could do it more. Her favorite color is purple and she hopes her new room is going to be purple. Her favorite food is spaghetti. Her favorite show is Thomas the Train. Her favorite ride at Disneyland’s California Adventure was “the Caterpillar ride.” It is Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train in Bug’s Life Land. Her favorite ice cream is vanilla and her favorite animal is a cat. She really wants to get a cat, but I don’t think she will be able to talk Mom and Dad into it.

2. Alexis was born in Alaska. On our way to the hospital it was -30°F. We brought her home two days later and it was 20°F. A 50 degree swing! No wonder she was almost two weeks overdue. She wanted to stay where it was warm!

3. Alexis loves to dance and sing and is always making up her own tunes. We were baking cookies the other day and we were singing as we added each ingredient. Alexis began to sing, “Sing along with my baking soda song.” I wish you could hear the tune, because it was in key and so cute. She is looking forward to her dance recital in May.

4. Alexis is so curious and always asking questions about how and why things are the way they are or why they are called by their name. A few days ago she says, “Mom, what does veryinta mean?” I was confused and asked her to repeat it. “Veryinta.” I told her that I didn’t know what that was. She responded, “You said that Denali is veryinta Elmo.” I explained that “very into” just means that she really likes Elmo. So then she began to tell me the things she is “veryinta” like: music, playing with friends and flowers.

5. I asked Alexis to tell me some things that she is looking forward to. She is looking forward to: going to the park with Leann (a college student in our dorm who is going to live with us for a few weeks), her friend Chase and his family moving to Ephraim, and taking swimming lessons this summer. And then she said, just swimming all the time, not just lessons, but it is too cold to swim today. It is the last day of April and it is snowing right now.

6. Alexis loves spending time with her Dad, especially when it means also getting to go to a fun activity with the leadership students. Last night they had a bonfire. She couldn’t wait to go to the “vampire” and thought that the “vampire” was so much fun. She got to roast 3 marshmallows and one hot dog.

7. A funny story that she wanted to tell: Alexis was one and we were having a summer BBQ with some friends. She was in her high chair and looking pretty sleepy. But she also was hungry. She fell asleep sitting up with a cheeto in her mouth!

8. On Sunday, I was feeling very lazy and not wanting to do much of anything. Alexis yelled at me from the other room saying that there was a dead spider on one of her toys. I told her to brush off the spider into the garbage can and surprisingly she agreed. But when she went to pick up the toy, she yelled that the spider had moved. I told her to get her shoe and squish it, but she told me she was too scared. So I begrudgingly got up to take care of the spider. Greg was not home or I would have made him do it. I went into get it and it was huge! I didn’t want to squish it either. I put a paper towel over the toy and put it in the sink, turned the water on full blast and the disposal. I felt very bad that I hadn’t taken care of it quicker. I don’t know if it was poisonous, but I don’t really want to know.

Alexis is tagging her friends: Chase Arave, Danika Farley, Grace Gordon, Grace Rolfe, Anne Evans, Lauren Gilbride, Aaron Rhodes, Collin Rhodes, Erika Smith, and everyone else. We love to learn more about our friends.