You've really grown a lot over the past few months. Watching you grow, change, and mature is such a blessing in our lives. I tell you all the time that God did his very best work on you! He gave you all of His greatest gifts and we are doing our very best to help you refine them. For your birthday this year you had your first sleepover with Lucas and Paxton (your other best buddy, Caden, was at Disney) and went to Andretti's. Your party was Harry Potter themed! Here's what your 8-year old self is all about!:
- You are about 4ft. 4in. tall. You wear size 2.5-3 in shoes and size 8 in clothes.
- Your hair is getting a little darker. Sometimes when I glance at you I can see what you're going to look like as a teenager! You are incredibly handsome! You have beautiful brown eyes that are hazel in the sunlight and your smile is just so gorgeous!
- You like to wear athletic clothes and do not like to wear jeans or button down shirts.
- You eat like an adult...seriously. You don't eat much for breakfast - mostly fruit, yogurt, and cheese. Your favorite lunch foods are chicken noodle soup, egg noodles with butter and cheese, Ramen, and wings. You handle spicy foods way better than I do! For dinner you love pizza, sushi, and Daddy's dinners. :)
- At school you seem to like all subjects and name different ones when we ask what your favorite is. You love to read (both at home and at school) and you've got a very quick math mind. You work REALLY hard at school and give 100% to your schoolwork and your homework. You willingly complete extra credit assignments for FOCUS and go above and beyond with your work. I could not be more proud of the student you are!
- Right now you're in book 4 of the Harry Potter series. You still love to read and tend to work through series. Your favorite series this year have been DogMan, Dragon Masters, I Survived, Harry Potter, and Magic Tree House.
- You like to be right. :) You can be argumentative, at times, when you feel that someone is questioning your "right-ness". You expect others to PROVE it when they feel they are right. You could have a future in law. :)
- You very much like to be the leader of a group - to be in charge; however, you can work well in a group as well. At school, you are responsible and helpful to others.
- You are loud. You talk loud and play loud. You like to be funny and make people laugh.
- You have a rough and tumble exterior, but inside you have a very sweet, thoughtful, kind heart.
- You are very helpful! You willingly help do anything we need help doing around the house.
- You enjoy being around people and we're unlikely to find you playing alone at home.
- You are spirited, rambunctious, curious, argumentative, moody, kind, adventurous, thoughtful, and loving. You are affectionate, insanely smart, hardworking, competitive, and loyal. You are dedicated, helpful, creative, and silly. You are fun to be with and you have lots of friends. You are so very, very loved and admired.
- You're brave and enjoy high risk activities (flying down the hill on your easy roller, riding roller coasters, etc.)
- Your favorite things to do include read, watch TV (you like to watch sports with Daddy and How to Train Your Dragon), play sports, hold Teddy, hang out with us and build things (with Legos, crafty-type things).
- You do not like being alone, when things don't seem fair, being left out...can't think of anything else right now.
You are an amazing little boy with the whole world in your hands. We are blessed to be your family and can only hope that we are giving you everything you need to become the incredible person God created you to be. We love you with our whole hearts, forever and always, no matter what!
