Our lives as we know them will change completely within the next couple of weeks as we will grow our family and welcome your new baby brother into the world. I think you will do great with Matthew. You are such a sweet and kind natured boy and love is what you do best.
This past year has been full of change and growing up for you. You have taken it like a champ. You started school and went through potty training. Literally one day you decided you did not want diapers anymore, and so it began. You mastered it right away, but the baby in you struggled with it a few times through the year and even today have a few set backs, but overall you are Mama's potty champion! Your move to a big boy room was seemless. Your language and communcation skills have really given you independence and confidence that have propelled you into the next stage of life.
I love talking with you, most of all when you look me in the eye. It melts my heart and makes me so proud! I know when you look me in the eye, you are serious about the subject, and I best listen. When you get really excited about something or can not seem to find just the right words, you take about 20 seconds to say one sentence, as you start from the beginning every time. You like things for things to be right from the start! This also carries over into other things. If you start a book or song and something happens or if you get interputted, you must start from the beginning; if your coloring page has a mistake on it, you will trash it and start all over, even if you had been working on it for a long time.
There are few things that have your full and undivided attention like coloring and animals do. When coloring, you concentrate and do not like to stop until it is complete and exactly the way you want it. All of your animals and their care and organization is as detailed and percise. You have a soft spot for animals of any kind (stuffed or real), and I truly can not think of one animal that you do not have. I am not exagerating.
You still love to be outside and would choose that over most anything else. You are not a real TV watcher, you would not watch it at all if we did not turn it on. You RARELY ask to watch anything, but when you do it is either Dino Dan, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, the new Pirate show on Disney Jr., or maybe Wonder Pets. Movies on the other hand...in the car you love to watch either "How to Train your Dragon" or "Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs". You love to watch 3d movies with Daddy and your "special glasses", especially the documentary on the ocean (shocker).
One of my most favorite things is watching you and Daddy. You two are the best of buddies. You love to wrestle or tackle him or have him put you in "John jail" until you can guess the password, which is typically some sort of dinosaur. You love to go up and "excersise" with him, which is so good for the both of you in so many ways. When Daddy is doing a project, all you want to do is help him. You mimic him and want to be just like him. He is the best Daddy in the world for you!
You have become less cautious this year. I would describe you now as observant and intuitive, I hope your continue to develop these things as I think they will serve you well through life. It makes talking around you a little more difficult these days as you are a sponge whether you act like you are listening or not. You notice ANYTHING that was different than they way you left it, or anything new in the house right away. You ask about immediately. You also have a sense of when Daddy or I are sad or angry about something. When we are down or have had a long day, we are putting a lot of effort into trying not to show this to you, as it does effect your mood and attitude.
You are the reason that Daddy and I do everything we do, we could not love you more and want nothing but the very best for you. One day you will know that everything we do is out of our love for you and nothing else. You have our hearts!
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