I cannot believe that tomorrow morning my oldest son will wake up as a 5 year old! How did this happen?! This just cannot be possible. He was just a little baby not that long ago and now he is old enough to go to kindergarten!
So what is there to know about Eric on his 5th birthday? He loves dragons and the movie How To Train Your Dragon. He also loves riding his new scooter and bike. Any chance he gets he wants to be outside riding them. He absolutely adores movie nights and getting to make the house into a movie theater and having popcorn and the very rare soda. He is learning to read and doing a pretty good job so far. He still loves to learn and hungers for more knowledge. He has a best friend whom he adores. Her family and ours have a standing joke about getting the pre-nup drawn up now. Haha! :) He loves to be tickled and likes to wrestle with his daddy. He loves to play any kind of game but his favorites seem to be Connect 4 and Blockus. He loves to quote scripture and sing Bible songs he has learned at school (I will so miss this when he goes to regular school). He probably knows more scripture than I do to tell the truth. I need his teacher's secret on how she gets them to learn all of that. He also came home and started counting by 2's today out of nowhere. He enjoys counting to 300 in the car which while impressive drives me sort of crazy listening to constant counting. Haha! The funny thing is when I ask what he did at school he tells me he played in the sand or with the water table. Silly kid! He also loves football...playing it or watching it. His favorite team is the Gators in college football. For pro football it is whoever is winning the game...he isn't picky. Haha! :) He is also playing basketball now which is just so much fun to watch. He has a blast playing even if he is the smallest kid on his team.
As far as birthday celebrations we had a party at the park again this year per his request. He got to choose who he invited which was a first and he had a great turnout for the party. He had a wonderful time even though it was frigid outside. Tomorrow on his actual birthday we are going to go bike riding with friends (weather permitting) and then to the local smoothie cafe for dinner. He gets to open some family gifts as well. He is very excited about being the birthday boy.
He is very excited about going to California in March and seeing his Aunt Risa get married. He is also very excited to go to Kindergarten at the big school (no final decisions yet but in his mind it is already done) where his friend Koty and Nicholas go. So look out year 5 it is going to be a crazy fun year!!!
