Sweet Landon, you turning 5 was super emotional for me. I cried every time thinking about and looking back at your baby pics. You are no longer baby at all and such a big kid now. There's something about graduating pre school and moving on to kindergarten that has me like (bawling) cue the water works!
You love tranformers, power rangers, sword fighting, nerf guns. You love the water and love pools, squirt guns, pools, going to the beach. You did a month long 4 night week swim school this June and you did great. You started out in Level 2 and within 1.5 weeks you were moved up to level 3. You can float on your back and forward float and kinda swim on your own a small distance. It was a pain to go 4 days a week but you really made so much progress. Well prob sign you up again in the fall (indoor pool) this time around. It was too hard with vacations and business of summer to do another summer month.
You finished up pre school at good news in early June and it was so hard to move you from there because you absolutely love it there, the teachers esp Lizzy, your friends. They called you funny man kraemer. haha we knew it would be a good transition to school to have you do the summer care program at your future school with kids your age. They do fun field trips and it gets you accustomed to your new school, kindergarten rooms, bathroom, library, eating in the lunch room etc. It was a little rough the first couple of weeks but you seem to really like it now. Every where we go we seem to run into kids from your class too, Hi Landon etc we even discovered one boy also named Landon's grandparents live down the street from us.
You are so smart, your memory is like crazy. You can remember things from books, dinosaurs names facts, etc. You remember super detailed things all the way back to age 3 too. Your one smart cookie that's for sure. Your cutting/writing skills have exploded..you are super good at writing your name and will write most letters..you still get a little frustrated. Weve worked some on sight words.
Speech-- you continued to go to speech twice a week for 30 mins at a local elementary school during the school year. Your dad and I alternated going to get you and taking you and bringing you back to school..such a pain but we didn't want you riding a van by yourself. You made a lot of progress..working oh sh, ch sounds s... etc towards the end you have kinda starting stuttering, repeating yourself which got me concerned but your teacher said this is common around this age and usually means a language explosion soon. Youll continue to go to speech but right at your school so we wont have to come and take you any more. YES!!! Well see how you progress and how much longer youll need to go etc. But my thought is it cant hurt right?
You love your ipad and watching you tube things..hobby kids etc.. we really have to limit this but in the mornings youll wake yourself up and go downstairs and watch it while we get ready..and it may not be the best thing for you but it helps our mornings go smoothly. You recently love doing puzzles and will do the same ones over and over. Love to have dance parties and sing and dance crazy. You love telling jokes and being a jokester class clown..no idea where you get that from? We hope you will behave and not end up at the principals office. Ahhhh. You seem to do well at school but occasionally they have to remind you to listen.
Your getting better at eating..at least trying things or if we say eat 2 more bites etc. You still love mac and cheese quesadillas, hot dogs, water melon, yogurt, popsicles. You love to help bake cookies/muffins.
You definitely are our rule follower and people pleaser...you will shut down if you think were mad or if you aren't doing something right--speech homework writing etc. You don't get naps at your new school so some nights you are just too tired and get cranky and seem not to listen.. say I don't care, Im not a part of this family etc...Ahh can be so challenging. usually a break in your room resets you.. You def get hyper around your cousins/ neighbor friends and struggle to listen more.
Your still the biggest sweetheart and mamas boy you always say you'll marry me, want to hold my hand, and want me to kiss you bahahha. I m sure you wont feel this way for much longer so Ill take it all in. hahaha
You are still sucking your thumb..ahha you stopped for months bc you cut your tongue on a pop can and then you up and started it again. Weve tried smelly nail polish etc.. hoping we can fix this.
You don't really have an interest to ride your bike weve tried a few times without training wheels I really think you could but you are scared. You love riding your scooter.
Putting your shoes on clothes on etc you can do all of it but you constantly whine for us to help you.
Your still really short compared to other kids but being our kid I know youll shoot up..prob in high school haha.
Wearing your glasses goes pretty well but you are so rough on them your new pair from May is already scratched up and scuffed up.
You go to bed well still without much fight you brush your teeth and go potty usually a bath and then we read a few books and you go to bed. you like to sleep with your light on and a few weeks wed catch you sitting up at the top of the stairs staring at us watch tv... eventually youd get bored and go back to bed on your own lol
Im so excited for you to start school, I know it will be a VERY emotional day for me and I hope I can hold in the tears until you cant see me. bahhahahah We are hoping you can ride the bus to and from school to save us from paying before and after care and they start school so dang late here..after 9 am. So excited to see you grown and how much learn in school. I really hope youll love it and that kids will be nice.
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