I'm FOUR!!

 The best day of the year just passed...my birthday!  On my actual birthday, Mom and I had a special day together.  We went out to breakfast and then went to see the Cars 2 movie.  I lasted about 2/3 of the way through the movie before I wanted to leave (which was longer than I lasted the first time Dad took me to the big movie theater)!  Then we took cupcakes to school to share with all my friends.

Then, only two days later, we got to celebrate again!  This year, the party theme was Dinosaur Train - we had special invitations, a green dinosaur cake, a big dinosaur bounce house and an orange dinosaur pinata!  I had so much fun playing with my friends and I got some really cool presents!

Preschool Skills

I've learned a lot this year in preschool. My drawing and writing skills are pretty amazing (if I do say so myself). I've mastered my name now, but the letter K was the hardest one for me to learn. I love to draw rockets and I'm perfecting my people depictions. Today, we had to draw a picture of our favorite trip, so I drew Granddad's beach house that we visited last weekend. Pretty impressive, right?!

*Parental note:  Grandmom did not get a motorcycle, but Granddad got a Vespa

Dinosaur Train & Band Aids

My two favorite things right now are Dinosaur Train (TV show on PBS) and band-aids.

Lately, I've been wearing band-aids like accessories with the record being six of them on at one time.

And I LOVE Dinosaur Train. I know all the dinosaur time periods and over ten types of dinosaurs. I've got a bunch of the dinosaurs from the show and the train which I drive all over the house. I'm worried that my sister will touch my stuff though, so the other day, when I was done playing with the train, I made sure I kept it safe from Kate...

I'm also great at riding my bike now. I can go really fast and I'm not scared to go over bumps and around corners...maybe these training wheels will come off at the end of the summer?!

Ice

So, last weekend was an ice themed weekend. On Saturday, we went to Joe Louis Arena (where the Red Wings play) and learned how to ice skate! I made about 4 laps before falling, crying and preferring to go eat/drink hot chocolate.



Then, on Sunday, we went to see Toy Story on Ice where we saw Buzz and Woody in person! I was mesmerized for the first half of the show and bouncing off the walls during the second half - partly because I had several cookies, and partly because there was a long portion of Barbie and Ken skating to dumb music which I hated. I sat inside the suite and told Mom to "come get me when Buzz gets back out there".

Bode Miller in training

first snowfall meant it was time to try skiing! dad bought me a cool pair of skis, boots and a sweet helmet - all of which I had been wearing in the house practicing in anticipation of this day. I was mastering the pizza and french fry moves as well as some big air jumps.

I have to say, I'm already an amazing skiier...don't believe me? check out my skills at Mt. Weiland

shenanigans

what happens when Mom lets you wear your buzz lightyear costume in December and she turns her back for five minutes? trouble...

what happens when you put five cousins in one house for two days, give their parents beer and let Uncle Will supervise playtime? (see exhibits at right and don't tell Grandmom what we were doing)

oh, and that last picture...that's just there so you all remember how sweet and cute we can be when we aren't getting into trouble

I am the smartest man alive

It appears as if I've been slacking on updating the blog lately, but I've been real busy with so many fun things in October - we visited a farm, the cider mill, carved pumpkins, went trick or treating twice and I had a Halloween party at school. I'm sure it goes without saying, but I was Buzz Lightyear (and I even had the real wings)! I loved my costume so much that I wouldn't take it off after our party at school so I was only one still dressed up when Mom came to pick me up - I was also the only one with orange paint all over my costume four days before Halloween...luckily it came out in the wash. I got so much candy that my bucket was too heavy to carry. My favorite candy is the Kit Kat and I will fight anyone who tries to eat them at my house.

My obsession with World World is paying off big time! I love letters, sounds and building words. I can spell several words (like Jackson, Mom, Dad, Ball, Duck, Rocket) and I am starting to be able to sound out words to read them - today I figured out HOT and BAG just by looking at the letters and sounding it out!!