Glimpsing into James' Mind

I love when I get a glimpse into James' mind and understand a little how he views the world.  

1. We often tell James how skinny he is.  Mostly when he is changing and we actually see those super skinny arms and his ribs.  I didn't think anything of this.  He often tells his brothers they are skinny when he is in a supper silly mood.  So it made me laugh pretty hard the other day when I realized what he actually thinks skinny means.  He got out of the shower and was running around upstairs naked yelling "I'm Skin-ey,  I'm Skin-ey" of course he is skinny, he is after all covered in skin.  

2.  Doug brought home and old children's wood picnic table from his Grandparents.  They were going to throw it away and Doug decided to refinish it for our kids.  We explained to them that first he needed to sand down the old wood and paint then we would put new paint on it.  James has been pretty excited and has been asking when Dad is going to sand it.  So the other day Doug was cleaning out the shed and James found a jar full of sand.  He immediately ran over to the picnic table and carefully poured the sand all over it.  He then explained to me that the table was now "sanded" and we could paint it! 

James "lost" two teeth this week.  He had a dentist appointment and since the other teeth were already growing in behind the dentist just pulled them out.  He was so excited.  Then not long after we got home he lost them in the backyard.  We talked about it and he decided to write a note to the Tooth Fairy: Dear Tooth Fairy, Find my Teeth. She did and left him 2 dollars and a tooth brush and tooth paste so he can take care of his new teeth.  

He was really mad that there is no school because he wants to show his friends that he lost a tooth.  He asks every day if there is school. 

Mikey Turns 5

Mikey turned 5 on May 18.  He is so exceed to be growing up, he is pretty much excited by everything.  Mikey is a fun little soul and doesn't have very many strong opinions.  Getting ready for his birthday he couldn't decide what he wanted to ask for, and we couldn't figure out what he would want either.  I had to take him to Toys R Us one night and just walk around so he could figure out what he wanted.  He still didn't have any really strong opinions.  He also didn't know what kind of cake he wanted. Finally a few days before his birthday he settled on a Rainbow Dash cake.  

One thing he was certain of was what he wanted for his birthday dinner...Crabs.  He talked about it constantly.  So we decided that since it was kind of expensive, and James and Brooke weren't going to eat them, and we didn't want to do all the work for Billy we would let him have a special dinner with Mom and Dad after the others went to bed.  He loved it, and it was fun just talking and talking to Mikey.  

Mikey eating his corn. 

 With how enthusiastic he started eating I was worried we weren't going to have enough crab for him.  but he eventually got board of how slow of a process it all is and decided to be done.

Dipping his crab in the butter.

Some things about Mikey at 5-years-old:

We finally decided to get Mikey some Golf Clubs.  He loved going golfing with his Grandad last year and talks about going with his Dad all the time.  He was pretty excited about the gift and was pretty impressive starting out.  

Mikey chose to have a Rainbow Dash cake, so we had to do two cakes.  One chocolate that we would actually want to eat, and one rainbow cake, because it just seemed wrong to do a rainbow dash cake but not have a rainbow cake.  

boys and squirt guns...poor Brooke

He also got a slip and slide from his Grandparents.  The kids have all been having a blast on it all summer.  Although since his birthday was on a sunday he didn't get to try it out until the next day. 

She wasn't too excited about it. 

Billy is the most fearless of all the kids, nothing seems
to bother this kid!

Mikey making his brothers scream

 Mikey is such a fun, loving, good kid.  He is the one I can count on to do whatever I ask him to do and follow directions.  He is a good example for his other siblings.  He still talks and talks and talks.  Whenever we play the quite game it always ends by Mikey claiming "I won" even though nobody else has said a word.  He loves making friends and whenever we go to a park he always finds a new friend.  He is a sensitive little soul also, he hates being reprimanded and doing something wrong.  He is still a tiny little guy.  Every time we leave the house I can count on someone asking me if he and Billy are twins.  We love Mikey and are so glad he joined our family 5 years ago.