Sweet Boy

Cole-
You are definately the boy that brings out all my emotions. You make me laugh, get frustrated,and melt all within a matter of minutes. I love your sweet, curious personality. I wanted to write down a couple cute things you've said lately:

- "I love mom so much that I like her!" (cutest thing EVER)
-After getting a hair-cut "the back of my hair feels like a bad rug!"
-While I was telling Mitch that Cooper has his nose "Well I have a booger nose! I really do! There are always boogers. Sometimes I have to blow them out and sometimes they just come out all by themselves!"

You just finished tball, and sometimes you were great and you loved it, and other times you hated it and it was kinda painful for all of us! (the 100 degree humid weather didn't help)...We'll see if you continue.

You are starting to swim on your own now and you are soooo proud about it! I wish we had a better pool in Victoria because I love watching you learn and be so happy about it.

Sure love you!

Dennis the Menace

We watched the movie Dennis the Menace as a family last night, and I laughed all the way through it! You are MY Dennis the Menace!! You are the sweetest boy I know, telling me how much you like me, love, me and telling me that I am the best mom in the whole world. Even though you are so sweet, trouble seems to follow you everywhere you go! It is never a dull moment with you around and we love you so much!

Preschool graduation

You didn't officially do preschool this year, but we were part of a group called kids connection down town. Your teacher, Ms.Kim was amazing!! You loved going there, and were good to participate. At least in the beginning of the year. Towards the end of the year it got busy, and you became less interested. Regardless, it was a great experience and we loved it! You had a water party the last day.

You only enjoy learning with me for short periods of time, and it was good for us to be able to go other places for learning too. You have picked up a lot just from watching Cooper. You know most of your letters and their sounds, you can count to 10, you can do simple addition, you love nursery rhymes and are great at reciting those, and you can write your name. We really need to work on writing other letters and recognizing/writing numbers. You are doing great though! Love you buddy!

Driving

Sometimes we have the best little moments when Ivy's asleep and Cooper's at school. The other day you were pointing out how many "boosters" cars had, and how fast they are. It took me a minute to realize that you were talking about exhaust pipes. I really love raising boys!!

FOUR

COLE-

You are FOUR! You had your first friend party this year and loved it. We also had a neighborhood easter egg hunt on your birthday, which you thought was just for you. You loved the attention, and I actually had a lot of fun throwing the party. Your friends are so good. We had a 'hot wheel' party. You and your friends got to paint  your own wooden car, and race them down the track that Mitch made. We had a donut cake for dessert, a pinata, and played a few games like red light-green light. It was perfect!

I am loving and yet still struggling with this age! I love having time with just us when Ivy is napping. Last week you said "i love you mom, we are best buddies." Melted my heart. Not five minutes later I got a snack for us to share and you started throwing a tantrum that we had to share it. This stage will surely end soon right?

You are getting good at your alphabet and numbers/counting. Your latest thing has been rhyming, and you love rhyming everything. You are great at memorizing and know a lot of songs and nursery rhymes by heart. You love music and dancing and have some pretty sweet moves. You add so much life and fun into our family, and we sure love you!

First time in Primary!

On Sunday, your future sunbeam class got to go into primary for singing time for the first time! They are going to start letting you come every sunday now for a little bit. Luckily, Kamri's mom snuck a picture of you with your friends. Your class is Caleb, Jack-Jack, You, and Kamri. You are the oldest one in the class. You all did so good at going into primary today. I can't believe how much you are growing up!

Good Days

Dear Cole-

Today we had a really, really good day together. I bought you a thing of blue play-doh yesterday and played with it for hours today! It was so fun. I love being able to spend time together. We made olaf (the snowman), dinosaurs, letters, monsters, balls, and all kinds of things with play-doh. One thing that I love about you is that you don't need fancy things to be happy. You really just want to spend time with your family having fun more than anything else. I think that me spending time with you and playing with play-doh was the very best thing in the world to you. I love you for reminding me about the simple-and most important-things. I also love your sense of humor and contagious laugh, and the words that you say like a toddler! My favorite sentence that you say all the time is "my brudder is at kindagarten"

xoxo
mom