how well do you know Kali?

What is your favorite color? blue, green, yellow, pink
How old are you? 5
What is your favorite food? oatmeal and pepperoni pizza
What is your favorite movie? Lion King and Dinosaurs
What is your favorite thing to play with? Dinosaurs
Do you like to ride your bike or skooter better? bike
What is your favorite sport? soccer
What is your favorite car? Sally
Do you like cats or dogs better? dogs
What is your favorite animal? panda bear
What is your favorite animal in the ocean? dolphin
What is your favorite game? hide and seek
What do you want to be for Halloween?  Jaguar
What is your favorite dinosaur? Triceratops and Long neck

More about Kali,

She taught herself how to ride a bike.  A few weeks before she did this I had decided it was time to help her learn how to ride a bike without training wheels, so I took them off and helped guide her and tried to get her use to the feel.  Well after about 5 min. she was over it.  Fast forward two weeks, we were at a BYU-H reunion and the Reynolds home and Kali hopped on a bike there and started riding without training wheels.  We came home and lowered her bike seat and the rest is history.  She now rides her bike everywhere like a pro.

Kali really wanted to run in this 5k race for our stake.

We only went out running twice for a couple of miles to train.

On those two runs I would let Kali run as long as she could and then we would walk

for a little and run again.  So naturally I planned on running the race in this fashion.

Kali was concerned about winning the race.  

She told me several times that she wanted to win it.

I told her she might be able to win in her age group but not against the adults.

When race day rolled around she was determined to win the race.

Instead of our normal run, walk, training fashion, she did not want to stop running.

We ended up finishing in 31 minutes.

She only stopped 3 different times during the race and walked about 10 steps and then continued her run.

She gave me a run for my money, I was hurting, but there was no way I was going to stop

when she was determined to win.

She did such an amazing job!

I was so proud of her.

In the last mile we had caught up to an 8 year old boy and as soon as he saw

Kali behind him he took off sprinting,

Kali sprinted after him and passed him,

I told her to relax till the last block, then she could sprint passed him.

When the last block came, she took off sprinting, but half way there I think 

she realized he was going to win and she started crying.

I told her to keep going, I grabbed her hand and helped her run to the finish line.

She had worked to hard to stop and be disappointed now.

She finished about 10 ft. behind the boy.

I am so amazed with how determined and competitive this little girl is,

but at the same time I am not surprised, hello look at her parents;)