Four years old!!! All of a sudden we have a full blown kid. This guy is no "preschooler" anymore. He continues to show us just how smart and grown up he's becoming. It's frightening and amazing all in the same breath.
What he's doing now:
- easily riding his bike all on his own, up and down hills, in circles, to the park…in fact, he got a new big bike for his birthday!
- writing his name and any other words he has the patience to write out if we help with the spelling
- helping in the kitchen (a fave is helping make pancakes on the weekends)
- bossing his little brother around (I'm hearing more and more of my own words coming out of his mouth and being directed at Gus these days)
- tattling on his little bro ("Mom! Gus dumped out the legos!") or worse yet, blaming whatever they both may be in trouble for on the little bro. It's impressive. ("but Gus did it!")
- trying to do anything Dad does (he's a big fan of helping to hitch/unhitch the trailer)
- playing Wii video games (he's a big fan of being the luigi character in Super Mario Bros, mariokart, and olympic winter sports)
- acting out his new ninja skills that he has picked up from watching Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- telling us he loves us, then taking it to the next level (I love you 100! I love you 42 hundred! and whatever other big numbers he can manage to spit out that are higher than what I come back with. Definitely one of my favorite current games to play with him!)
Life with this guy is nothing but interesting, enlightening, and exciting! Happy Birthday Arjen! We love you infinity!
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| He chose Chili's for his birthday dinner - he loves being able to "read" his own menu (pictures) and choose his own food. The free birthday ice cream didn't hurt either, although, he wasn't too thrilled when he was in the spotlight while the waitstaff sang "Happy Birthday" to him! |
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| Decorating for his Orange themed birthday party |
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| The fam came over to help us celebrate Arjen turning 4…The kid couldn't have picked a better favorite color to have with an October bday, and during a Giants playoff streak! |
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| I think he likes the new bike, even though he told us we needed to take the training wheels off! |
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| the Orange Crew. |
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| Gus was grateful to Aunt Shannon for bringing his shopping cart downstairs. God forbid that thing didn't follow him from room to room! |
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| Checking out a little Giants action |
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| Turtle power! |
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| Sorry for the darkness…the boys were enjoying a moment outside with some new transformer RescueBot toys |
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| Think he partied hard enough? |
Happy Birthday Arjen!❤️
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