Huston - March 2013

Huston, another month has flown by and you will be 4 before we know it.  We are having so much fun exploring our new town and making new friends.  Today you were trying to get everyone straight and were asking which kid belonged to which mom and where you met them.  You decided that Mason had the dog, Ryver had pirates, Daisy was bubbles and Marley had Michael.  I don't know what you'll do if you play pirates or bubbles with anyone else but it set you straight for today.  You are really doing a good job asking people to stop if you don't like what they are doing (opposed to growling at them like you used to do).

Feeding birds with Marley and Michael

Kingston ferry ride

Park with Marley

Bubbles with Ryver

They won't let me take pictures at the YMCA, but you are doing a great job there too.  You know the routine now, so when we go to drop you off you get your name tag and walk right in and do your thing. They threw us for a loop the other day and had a fire alarm go off while we were there and you kept your big boy face on and waited patiently in line outside in the rain while they released the kids back to the parents.

We joined the library and you checked out your first library book and we try to make the story time weekly.  You aren't a huge fan of sitting still that long and you usually sit with me and Nolan rather than in the circle, but you inch your way up there close to the end.

You are still a big fan of Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Doc McStuffins and Imagination Movers.  We have gotten so busy lately that you barely watch tv at all now, but when we do our bedtime stories you like it to be about those shows. And you like to dress like a pirate too.  But I have to do your hair "like Jake's" and make sure it sticks up out of your headband.

You have gotten your fathers shopping gene too.  If we are walking the mall and go into a kids clothing store, you look through the racks and tell me which ones you would like.  You picked out the shirt in your pirate pic above.  And you must match.  Every morning you pick out your own outfit and ask me, "Does this match?" 

Some of your funny moments are reciting commercials as they come on word for word and saying everything is your favorite (jacket, friend, brother, clothes, food, anything).  If you say it's your favorite and then I tell you mine is something different, you immediately say "that is my favorite too".  A typical reply to anything we say is "That's impossible!", "You are making me nervous" or "It was an accident".

You are a ball of energy and no matter what we do all day, you still have enough in you to jump daddy at the door and say "Daddy play with me?????" and ambush and climb on him until you get some attention. Most days he can barely take his shoes off first.

You love angry birds.  The game.  The toys.  And now on YouTube.  I'll do a search for them and you watch different kids over and over showing "their collection".  So you know what that means.  Daddy, Nolan and I get to see your collection.  Daily.

I absolutely love to watch you and your brothers relationship grow.  He's grabbing things and rolling over now, so you play and laugh and giggle with him.  You call him your best tiny brother.