Liam is 6 years old! He is 3 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 41 1/2 pounds. He wears size 6 shirts and size 5 pants. He goes to bed around 8 pm and wakes up around 7-7:30 am. He no longer naps and really enjoys staying up to play with Daddy on the weekends.
He is in kindergarten with Mrs. Dewitt and loves it! He likes to ride the bus and when I go back to work he will again attend the before and after school program and says he really likes that as well.
Liam is working hard at reading and is doing well at sounding out his words. Sometimes he gets frustrated which can lead to tantrums but he is improving. Every school night he has homework of reading a book and then writing a sentence or two about it in his journal. He has very neat handwriting. Liam counts to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. He also is doing well with simple addition and subtraction.
Liam goes to AWANA every Wednesday night in the Sparks program. He is very good at learning his verses that he needs to say, usually completing two sections each week. He says he enjoys game time the most. He is almost done with his book and will start reviewing it for more patches for his vest.
Liam still loves playing baseball. This past summer he played T-Ball again despite him telling me that he didn't need to since he and Dad play pitch baseball in the yard. This next summer due to his age he will be able to play pitch baseball and I know he will be pumped about it. We tried out a beginner soccer class this past fall but Liam wasn't really into it and said soccer was too hard because you can't touch the ball with your hands. (I also think the instructor was not that great so we may try soccer again someday)
This school year he has discovered that he likes to play basketball during recess. He plays with some other boys in his class and I hope to sign him up either for a beginner class or a league once I go back to work.
Liam is a great and typical big brother. He is very loving and sweet with Lucy all of the time. He is loving and sweet with Caroline a small percentage of the time. He loves to torture Caroline by getting in her face, taking away her toys and wrestling her. The other day he was sitting on her and it looked like he was going to spit on her. (sigh) He also likes to get her really mad; mad enough to scream at the top of her lungs and then watch her get into trouble.
He still loves to swim and can hold his breath underwater without fear. I'm sure we will start swimming lessons again in the spring.
Liam enjoys reading Captain Underpants books, any superhero or Scooby-Doo books from the library but right now his favorite books are the Harry Potter series. Evan began reading these books before bedtime this past fall and they are now starting book 3. He really enjoys the story and Evan and I very much enjoy reading them to him. (a bit better story plot than Scooby-Doo) He wanted a Harry Potter birthday party this year but since I just had Lucy I decided a big themed party wasn't something I wanted to tackle.
Liam still loves to play games and he is still a sore loser when anyone beats him. He likes to play Star Wars Operation, Battleship, Memory, Trouble and he has a new game called Shark Mania. That one is a lot of fun but is also a bit stressful for him so a lot of times he likes to set it all up and then just watch the shark destroy everything.
Liam is turning into the class clown. He usually never gets into trouble or any points taken away during the school day but when he does it is always because he is trying to get someone to laugh at him. One of the parents at Liam's birthday party told me that every night during dinner he hears a "Liam story" and how his son thinks that Liam is very funny. In fact the only child that we had to continually tell to calm down at the birthday party was Liam. "Hamming it up" is something that he is very good at.
He still loves Legos and (free) building with Dad. He also still likes to build with me on occasion. (building with the instructions) His favorite legos by far are his Batman legos. He also still likes to play with his cars and will always tell me to "watch this!" and then the cars crash together.
Liam is a very kind, thoughtful and loving boy. He loves to help around the house with cleaning, emptying the dishwasher and most recently ripping down wallpaper and painting. We are very proud of the boy that he is turning into, it's so much fun to watch him in action!
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