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

Preschool

I decided not to enroll you in formal preschool this year. I wanted to be able to spend time learning together this year. We are doing a lot of activities though. We go to story time at the library, music time with friends, preschool taught by moms with Blaine Bass from church, and sometimes another story time activity the city offers. You will also be doing soccer like Cooper, so you have a lot of things going on.

You have a hard time sitting still, and don't like when a lot of attention is on you. You like when I go to things with you. I have been impressed with how much you know, because we haven't worked on much yet. You are pretty good at tracing your name, and are such a great counter.

I am excited for this year and the time that we get to spend together!!

BRAVE

Cole,

You are such a brave, brave boy! We have had to get a few tests because the doctor says that you aren't growing as much as she'd like. I've been worried about it too, so I'm glad we are looking into it. Right now, the tests are just blood work-she is checking your thyroid and checking for celiac disease. We should find out next week what the results are.

When I took you to the outpatient lab, they drew about 6 tubes of blood from your arm. You were AMAZING! I don't think there has ever been a braver 3 year old to get his blood drawn! You didn't cry, and I don't think you even flinched.

I hope that you're strong and healthy. Dad gave you a blessing tonight after Cooper's school blessing. He blessed you that you will be heathy and strong.

Your nursery teachers always tell us how much they love having you in class! This year will be a fun one that we get to spend together. I love you lots!

xoxo
mom