Thursday, August 5, 2010

Growing and Growing

Again, it has now been almost a full year since I last posted.  At least I posted to our remodelling blog as that was my baby for those 6 months project time.  Both of you boys have grown so much over the past year, and yet to mommie, you really do look the same as you did a year ago.  However, I think you may actually be more of a challenge than you were a year ago!

Henry you just finished your last year at Reveille Preschool with Miss Rose and Ms. Hinson.  You had a really great year, starting the year off with one of your best friends, August, and meeting a new best friend, Hudson.  I think it's cute that you are probably one of the smallest kids in class with the biggest personality, and friends with one of the biggest kids in the class, Hudson.   We had your birthday party with Hank this January and your Meema and mommie made SuperHero capes for about 40 kids.  It was insanity, but you are worth it.  We had a great time with daddie dressing up as Batman and mommie made you a Super H cake as well.  Although I think your favorite part were presents - you always like to have lots of presents.

You are a very verbal and curious boy. You sometimes get in trouble with your mouth, but have much better control over your emotions than you did a year ago.  I am often amazed at your vocabulary and I think you are going to be an excellent PreK student this fall.  You will start at your new Preschool called Maymont.  I loved that when I told you this you explained to me that Maymont doesn't have a school, it has animals.  So now we call one Maymont School and the other Maymont Park.  You will not be going to school with any of your current best friends although I believe that in a week, you will have already made a whole class full of more friends.  You love SuperHeros and playing games right now.  Jack has taken over your love of cars and trucks and trains, and you enjoy more interactive things. You have become pretty good at Clue, which is actually 8 and up, but you insist that you can still play.  Yesterday you beat me, but you made sure to have 2 people in the envelope, as well as a location and a weapon. I like that you like to have the victim and the aggressor in the envelope and always name 2 when  you have the chance.  You also love what you call 'the Navy Game'  this game is traditionally called 'RISK' and is quite a complicated game even for skilled adults.  While your idea of playing it is fairly different than ours, you have made up your own rules and i'm proud of your creativity.  This summer we have gone to the movies and movie night is one of your favorite times.  We saw your first 3D feature and you had a great time.  Babee is still probably your best friend and you are a self-proclaimed 'Daddy's Boy,' though I know you secretly love Mommie too. 

And last but not least, you are an athlete.  Maybe not the biggest and strongest kid, but surely a competitor.  If you put your mind to it, you were a soccer star at the next to last game where you scored at least 4 goals and almost a 5th, but assisted Hudson in scoring.  While you didn't understand his score counted for your team, you had a little Mommie-competitiveness in  you and punched your best friend when he 'stole' your goal.  This fall Daddie is going to coach a team with you and  your friends.  It should be a really fun time and I think  you will prove to be an excellent competitor.  Next week you are headed off to Baseball Camp.  I am excited to see how you will do with  a more formal camp for baseball. I think you will do great and show up a star as you love practicing, but almost always under your own rules! You are a great swimmer and I can't wait until you can start swim team next year. It is going to be so much fun for you.

Jack is our spitfire. At just over 2 1/2 you are way more of a handful than Henry ever was.  You love Curious George and ask to watch him. You have a very certain way about how the world is supposed to be and go and temper easily if you do not get your own way.  Life with 2 1/2 year old Jack is challenging.  You are an angelic looking little one with sparkling white-blonde hair, but tan so perfectly and have crystal clear blue eyes.  You are almost always mistaken for a girl, even in your Spiderman swim trunks.  YOur hair is beautiful and you have an infectious smile.  When I get home, you are always the first to run and great me. I love how you smell me and cuddle with me, demanding that I also cuddle and kiss your blankey.  Your blankey is your most prized possession.  You take it everywhere. It is about 12 by 12, blue and has a small penguin stuffed animal on one corner.  i attempted to purchase a few more look alikes, but you know. YOu have accepted them as additional blankeys, but there is only one for you.  You love reading and books and carrying around cars or tools.  Like your brother at this age, you liek to be a worker-man and love to put stuff in your fire engine and take it places.  You talk all of the time, but often we don't understand you because you continuously suck your 2 middle fingers on your right hand. You have done this since you were a baby and I think will do it for some time to come.  It is your pacifier in times of frustration or temper tantrums.  YOu throw many tantrums a day.  Challenging for all of us and you refuse to accept time outs!  You think  you are still mommies baby and you are!  You finished your first year of preschool this past year, and will start your second in the same class Henry was in with Miss Katie and Miss Anne, 3 mornings a week.. That was the class Henry first made his best friends and I am excited that Pierson is going to be in your class and whether the two of you will become friends!

We love you both so much and are so excited to see you both grow and change, becoming such wonderful big boys!