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| Lou testing out his new bike from his parentals! |
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| On his actual b-day we went and saw the movie Planes (everyone almost fell asleep) and then we had Cars B-Day cupcakes at home. |
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| Present from Buckabu and Papa (the little brother is just as excited as the birthday boy) |
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| The creation which resulted from Buckabu and Papa's gift. He's in Heaven. |
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| Lou requested an "animal" friend b-day party. Here he is blowing out his DQ cake surrounded by his pals. |
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| The Beloved was our animal face painting artist. |
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| Here is the extremely lovely donkey The Beloved crafted for Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. |
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| One little party guest was quite dismayed by the placement of her tail. When we took the blind fold off she exclaimed, "You've got to be kidding me!" Funny. |
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| Prepping to open presents! The popular gift of the year was Hero Factory Legos. He's set for life. |
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| When Grandma and Grandpa came for Thanksgiving they gave Lou a way cool set of Legos for his b-day - plus Grandma sat with him for four hours assembling all of the tiny Lego pieces. Now, that is love. (and look, we kept the donkey up :) She's just too lovely to put away - plus I've always wanted a donkey with a target on its rear to compliment the decor in my kitchen) |
Hey my six year old Pal,
You're only six but sometimes you seem so much older to me. Your mind is always busy calculating, desiring to learn, and continuously moving forward. You soak it all in. The desire to learn and your recall of information is a gift and will bless you throughout your life. I know you will seek out good things to study and grow from. - you're just a cool cat like that.
You find joy in kindergarten and love your teacher Miss Coles. She is in our ward as well and is my visiting teacher and it makes you feel extra special when she visits our home.
You made up a list (of your own accord) with different activities you could do with Miss Coles - ex: go swimming, to the movies, the park, aquarium, zoo, church,etc. All you needed me to do was initial my consent next to each individual activity.
I laughed and told you this was a well thought through permission form but the only one that may possibly fly would be a ride to church once in awhile. I told you Miss Coles loves you and adores spending time with you but we can't monopolize all of her time outside the classroom.
Of course when I shared this tale with Miss Coles she said she was more than willing to take you on a few adventures.
We'll see. :)
When you learn things at school you are so anxious to share them with us at home. We love hearing all about your exciting days. One week you learned about needs vs. wants.
Oh my word...adorable at first and then it got a little crazy. I thought your eldest brother may explode when you kept telling him his possessions were wants not needs.
You made sure he knew he didn't need his IPOD.
Nor his headphones, bicycle, scooter, skateboard, books, tv...
basically anything he used to occupy his time was a big fat want.
Although true, it was a little overwhelming for his 11 year old mind to hear over and over and over again.
But fairly entertaining for your parents.
You also learned about starting with the end in mind.
This tool came in handy when I asked you to hang up your shirts. You have no problem putting clothes away in your drawers but typically hanging up clothing means feeling like death is around the corner.
I was surprised when you announced about ten minutes later you were finished with this task.
I told you how impressed I was and you said -
You know mom, it was easy. I just started with the end in mind and everything else was simpler after that.
Where did you come from kid? I am still trying to nail that one down.
You are a kind boy and have a gentle heart.
You can definitely be head strong but you don't often use that quality to hurt or be unkind to others.
Often when I am being impatient or you can tell I'm having an overwhelming day you take the time to give me a hug and say, I love you Mom.
You are very aware of when I need a hug. A little reminder to calm myself down and stop being a tyrant.
I appreciate your love and patience with me.
You make up your own pronunciation for words once in awhile. For example, the word gave. You give the a, a short O sound so it comes out sounding like G-AH-V. We eat it up and tease you a bit about your secret British royal roots.
Your most favorite thing to do in your spare time still is drawing.
You have me pull up pictures on Google images and you hand copy them quite precisely.
Before school you usually make two or three creations to hand out to different friends or for your brothers to enjoy while your away.
So sweet.
I love and enjoy you significantly.
Thanks for being so dependably good.
Love,
Mama
You find joy in kindergarten and love your teacher Miss Coles. She is in our ward as well and is my visiting teacher and it makes you feel extra special when she visits our home.
You made up a list (of your own accord) with different activities you could do with Miss Coles - ex: go swimming, to the movies, the park, aquarium, zoo, church,etc. All you needed me to do was initial my consent next to each individual activity.
I laughed and told you this was a well thought through permission form but the only one that may possibly fly would be a ride to church once in awhile. I told you Miss Coles loves you and adores spending time with you but we can't monopolize all of her time outside the classroom.
Of course when I shared this tale with Miss Coles she said she was more than willing to take you on a few adventures.
We'll see. :)
When you learn things at school you are so anxious to share them with us at home. We love hearing all about your exciting days. One week you learned about needs vs. wants.
Oh my word...adorable at first and then it got a little crazy. I thought your eldest brother may explode when you kept telling him his possessions were wants not needs.
You made sure he knew he didn't need his IPOD.
Nor his headphones, bicycle, scooter, skateboard, books, tv...
basically anything he used to occupy his time was a big fat want.
Although true, it was a little overwhelming for his 11 year old mind to hear over and over and over again.
But fairly entertaining for your parents.
You also learned about starting with the end in mind.
This tool came in handy when I asked you to hang up your shirts. You have no problem putting clothes away in your drawers but typically hanging up clothing means feeling like death is around the corner.
I was surprised when you announced about ten minutes later you were finished with this task.
I told you how impressed I was and you said -
You know mom, it was easy. I just started with the end in mind and everything else was simpler after that.
Where did you come from kid? I am still trying to nail that one down.
You are a kind boy and have a gentle heart.
You can definitely be head strong but you don't often use that quality to hurt or be unkind to others.
Often when I am being impatient or you can tell I'm having an overwhelming day you take the time to give me a hug and say, I love you Mom.
You are very aware of when I need a hug. A little reminder to calm myself down and stop being a tyrant.
I appreciate your love and patience with me.
You make up your own pronunciation for words once in awhile. For example, the word gave. You give the a, a short O sound so it comes out sounding like G-AH-V. We eat it up and tease you a bit about your secret British royal roots.
Your most favorite thing to do in your spare time still is drawing.
You have me pull up pictures on Google images and you hand copy them quite precisely.
Before school you usually make two or three creations to hand out to different friends or for your brothers to enjoy while your away.
So sweet.
I love and enjoy you significantly.
Thanks for being so dependably good.
Love,
Mama
1 comment:
I was a little confused when you said you went to the movie Planes? You must be playing catch up :) Anyway you are a good mama. Happy "late?" Birthday to your sweet boy.
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