Wow, here we are at your fourth birthday and in about 6 weeks you will be starting school. I cannot believe it. It may be because you are my "baby", but I do not think you would be ready to be going to school for the whole day. Lucky for you (& me :)) school is every day for 2.5 hours. I am sure that you would adjust, but I am thankful that the full day, every day kindergarten isn't available at your school until next year. We are wondering what type of boy you will be at school. Will you be the shy, timid boy at Benjamin Bunny Nursery School? Or will you be the clown & the kid who will always go for the laugh that we see at home? We don't mind you wanting to make other people laugh because laughter is a wonderful thing, but we do hope that you ensure you use this "specialty" properly.But what can we say about you as you enter your fifth year of life? The biggest thing about you right now is... dinosaur CRAZY!!!! You talk about dinosaurs, read about dinosaurs, watch dinosaurs, and play with dinosaurs probably 80% of your waking moments. You love to play house with your sister, but even that game involves dinosaurs. Although you have plenty of really nice shirts to wear, this summer you have rotated between 4 dinosaur shirts & your dinosaur bathing suit. When we leave for vacation next week I am not packing dinosaur clothing so that we can see the other shirts that you have.
You are still always willing to share and you are a kind little boy. Your greatest loves seem to be me, your sister & your cousin Gracie. You definitely like to be with girls. However you have seemed to develop some "friendships" with a couple of boys- Aidan & Nicholas. You three are quite entertaining when you are together & you play so well. You & Aidan share a love of dinosaurs & with Nicholas you love to be silly.
We signed you up for soccer this year, but I don't think it was your cup of tea. You were great for the first half hour where you did drills with your dad or I, but when it came to playing the game your "head wasn't in it". I think part of that is your kind nature as you weren't willing to be kicking at the feet of someone else. I think the other part was that you just wanted to run around with a game of your own in your imagination- which probably involved chasing dinosaurs or being a dinosaur & chasing others. However, you were always willing to play & were a great team player.
You are a happy kid and fun to be around. The volume always seems to be high when you are in the mix, because you seem to only have 2 level...loud or very quiet. Your speech is getting better and we continue to go to a speech language pathologist. You work hard at it at the sessions and enjoy the attention when doing "homework", but if you don't want to do it you fall back to your "silly" side. This is the side that doesn't show up too much at school!
...and one more thing, you are a MESSY eater!!!!
Thank goodness of OXY methods of cleaning!