Five Years Old

My Big Boy,

I can't tell you how fast you are growing, but I can tell you that it is just way too fast. I love hearing your stories about school and the friends you've made. I love watching you grow up and show your little brother so much love and attention. I always knew you would be an awesome big brother.
You are such a smart little boy and surprise me everyday from your conversations with me to how well you are learning everything you need to know to make it every day.

You keep me on my toes with your inquisitiveness. You are just wonderful with your twenty questions every hour about everything. I'm going to need to brush up on my knowledge of why things are the way they are.

Continue to grow both physically and emotionally as much as you can. Keep your eyes and mind open to everything that crosses your path and reach for the stars...even if you don't reach them you'll land on the moon, baby.

I love you with all my heart.

Mommy

Four Year Portraits

Over the weekend I went out and took Joshua's four year old pictures. I love how they turned out and how his personality really showed. He is such a charmer and a good looking cowboy.

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-K (Pre-School)

Joshua started Pre-K today at the Learning Center. He is excited and hasn't quite grasped the concept that it will be another year still until he starts Kindergarten across the street. He thinks he will start when he turns 5. Silly boy.
Today he went out the door with his little backpack which contained a little organge folder, which we decorated with stickers over the weekend to put any papers in so that they stay nice and neat on the trip to/from school. I do look forward to the major school shopping trip we will make next year and the week before going to "Meet the Teacher" at Booker T. Washington Elementrary. Right now I am just relishing in the fact that he is excited to go to school and can't wait to start learning more.

 

So Far

Joshua has come so far in the past seven weeks it's amazing. At home I couldn't get him to write the letter A if my life depended on it. He would get frustrated no matter how many times I showed him how. He would give up and say that he couldn't do it. So, I never pushed. I knew he would learn at his own pace and he did things much differently than other children. Let's just say that Magna Doodles are amazing in our house because that is what he prefers to write on.

Once he started at the daycare in June he started drawing more pictures and I saved this specific drawing because I asked if he could write his name on it for me and he said that he didn't know how to spell it. I told him I would spell it out for him if he wrote the letters down. This is the first attempt at writing his name without any direction on how to do it.

Then last night I was sitting in the playroom with him and I asked if he could write his name. Again...he stated that he couldn't spell it, so I told him I would tell him the letters...he wrote it perfectly (although S seems to be a letter we need to work on), then he proceeded to look at the wall where Matthew's name is and copied it below his name. This is just 5-6 weeks after the drawing above.





This is a video of him writing his name while I spell it out to him.

I am so proud of him. He is going to do so well in Pre-School which starts in a couple of weeks.