Nine!
His last single digit birthday. It makes me just a little sad, but I'm also so very proud of him!
This kid:
- has made huge leaps and bounds in his reading ability. He's reading chapter books now and while he still struggles occasionally, he's much more confident about it.
- draws dragons and ninjas and monsters quite often. He's filled several notebooks with nothing but pictures of his "characters," sometimes with little notes about their specific abilities.
- chose to have the traditional Sunday morning pancakes for breakfast, but wanted cinnamon rolls to go along with them.
- always, always, always requests tacos when I ask for meal suggestions.
- loves cheeseburgers, but takes the pickles off and gives them to Bryant every time.
- wants to play games like Magic and Dungeons and Dragons, but isn't quite big enough to fully understand them, so he gets frustrated more often than is probably necessary.
- likes to go to the library and read the Big Book of Knowledge books - they are a set of kids' encyclopedias, each letter in a separate book. He's checked out and perused almost all of them!
- is very into Clifford the Big Red Dog right now.
- sleeps with two Angry Birds toys, a blue stuffed bear and a wind up flashlight.
- has a fashion sense all his own. His favorite clothes are either khaki slacks with a button down, vest and tie or (shaking my head slightly) silver pajama pants and a Manchester United shirt that hangs to his knees! Fortunately, he almost always prefers the vest and tie look for leaving the house and is perfectly happy to keep the silver pants at home.
- loves Kit Kat bars and Slim Jims to an unhealthy level (not that either one was particularly healthy anyway...), but has to be forced to eat potatoes of any kind except fast food fries. And even those he won't finish even a kid-sized order of.
- still refers to Cream Soda as "the party in your mouth pop." I can't even tell you how many times I've gotten weird looks in the store when he starts talking about having a party in his mouth. So thanks for that, Aunt Reva!
- asked me to Google bow ties so that he could see how other people are wearing them (what they are pairing them with, what styles they had, etc...), then immediately asked if he could have a bow tie of his own.
I don't know how I missed this post (except that it's pretty easy for me to miss stuff when perusing the internet on my phone), but you are most certainly welcome!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't think I accept that he's 9 already. That can't be right...