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Happy Birthday Liam!!

I have a 5 year old! I can hardly believe it! People have always said how quickly kids grow up. But now I’m experiencing it. It seems so recently I was pregnant with my first child. Now I can barely remember what life was like without children. Or even what it was like when we only had Liam.

Liam has been such a blessing to us. He is sweet, hilarious, compassionate, and insanely smart! He never ceases to impress me. Around the time he turned 4, we started reading lessons. He is a great little reader now. He loves to learn and I hope he is always like that. We are starting Kindergarten with him this year. Not super structured but just giving him new things to learn.

He is a wonderful big brother and I think he will always have a special relationship with his baby sister. He loves to hold her, talk to her with a sweet little voice, and sing songs to her.

He loves to draw and color all the time. Give him a piece of paper and a pen and he will be entertained for a long, long time. He has also been in a stage for the past year where he will not let me fix his hair. He wears hats–all the time!

So now, the questions and answers I got from him on his birthday.

Favorite color- purple, pink, red, and yellow

Favorite food- cinnamon rolls

Favorite tv show- Jake and the Never Land Pirates

Favorite movie- Tinkerbell

Favorite holiday- Easter

Favorite school subject- handwriting

Favorite game- Quikopoly (Quiktrip Monopoly)

Favorite thing to do with:

Daddy- Play Earthboud

Mommy- make bracelets and necklaces

Kai- play superheroes

Kingston- show him how to finish a puzzle

Evangeline- sing to her and talk to her

Favorite restaurant- Chick fil a

Best friends- Menzi, Autumn, Abby, Penelope, Titus, and Kai

Favorite thing to do outside- swim

Favorite drink- juice

Favorite song- Amazing Grace

Favorite Bible verse- Ephesians 4:32

Favorite animal- pony (I have never heard him mention this before!)

Favorite toy- “all my barbies” I’m sure he’s going to love that answer in a few years

Favorite dessert- Ice cream cake

Favorite instrument- ukulele and harp

Favorite superhero- Captain America

What he wants to be when he grows up- an artist

I’m pretty sure I have his answers from his 4th birthday tucked away in a box. When I come across it, I can’t wait to compare his answers and see if anything has changed in the past year.

Because of all the #timanie wedding preparations, I decided not to have a party for Liam this year. I usually like to do a little something, especially now that he’s at an age to enjoy it, just to show him how much we love him. But I think he knows it 🙂 I tell him all day long. Last Sunday was the church picnic so I made a giant ice cream cake for him and Audrey (who also shares a birthday with him.) Everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to them. I think Liam thought the whole picnic was planned for him. He was so excited the whole day. Plus he got to swim!

Then on his birthday, we celebrated as a family. First we had to take Evangeline to the doctor because her eczema was getting out of control, then we hit up Chick fil a (his request.)

He got a free ice cream cone

Kim gave him his awesome new flat billed hat. He looks adorable in it!!

This picture was actually not posed. I snapped it really quickly in between some different “stunts” he was showing me. I love this picture!

I’m so excited to see what kind of new adventures we will have with our 5 year old this year! I’m praying The Lord will save him soon and that he will be used in a mighty way!

August 24, 2013

Blog, kids, liam

7/07/2011

After not posting for over a week, (because like I said, we don’t get out much) I am now posting my 2nd blog post of the night. If I was writing with the intention of having others read it, I would space it out more. But since I have literally 3 followers, (hey Don, Maggi, and Stef!) it doesn’t matter how often or little I post. But as I get the chance, I thought I would type up my journal entries. It’s really sad. I tried keeping a journal on the boys and only wrote 4 1/2 things. I started in July of 2011. This is why I felt like a blog would be easier. The reason one of my entries is only half is because the pen stopped working. And I’m disappointed because I don’t remember how that story ended. I have lots of little stories that I wanted to remember about the boys and have forgotten so many of them. My first entry in my journal was on 07/07/2011.

“After a stressful day and coming home that night to a house with no electricity, I was very upset (and 22 weeks pregnant with baby boy #3.) Liam, almost 3, saw me crying and kept asking “why are you crying mommy?” and saying “please don’t cry mommy.” He gave me lots of hugs and kisses. He is a very sweet and compassionate boy and he better not change.”

Well, it’s been a year and a half and he hasn’t changed. He is still my sweetie that loves to cuddle with me, kiss me, hug me, pick flowers for me, and tell me I’m pretty. We have started some homeschooling as we get the chance and he has caught on to reading really well over the past few months. He loves the sight words DVD that Grandmamie bought him. He looks for sight words in every book we read. He has also really been interested in adding numbers so we do a lot of that lately. If I seem to write about Liam a lot, it’s just because he is at the age where he has a lot more to say. I have decided to try to keep up with this more as a “baby book” type style as well to try to remember what they were doing and at what age. So this post goes out to Liam, because even though he was my first baby, I never kept a baby book. But I always want to remember how smart, hilarious, kind, friendly, outgoing, and charming of a 4 year old he was.

And everywhere we go, he gets complimented on his hat.

January 24, 2013