8th Birthday Update!

Busy day today for Dexter's 8th birthday.   We had school, swim lesson and a football game.   Will update stats and his likes/dislikes after our cruise!

Skills - This year Dexter has grown alot!   He is now 50.5 inches tall and weighs 53 lbs.  In school he remains in Speech therapy classes twice a week and can speak clearly when he slows down and tries. He also tested into Gifted Reading class midway through the year and now attends that once a week.  In sports he has done Taekwondo all year and has progressed from white to gold to green belt (soon to be purple) and he just recently started flag football which he really enjoys.

Favorite Friends at school - Moses, Chrisopher, Jacob, Jaden & Justin
Favorite Foods - Chicken Nuggets, Grilled Cheese (from Gram), Ham & Cheese (from Subway)
Favorite TV - Rescue Bots, Octonauts
Favorite Movies - All Star Wars
Favorite Toys - Stuffed animals
Favorite place to go - Disney/Legoland
Favorite animal - Pig
Favorite color - Yellow
Favorite desert - Ice Cream
Favorite superhero - Batman
Favorite Sport - Footaball

He also really likes video games - Star Wars battlefront, War Thunder, Roblox.

His stated dislikes are bullies and cheating.

Happy 7th Birthday!

Vital Stats:
Weight: 49 pounds  Height: 48 inches
 I wear size 5T-Youth XS shirts and pants, size 10 shoes
I lost my first 2 teeth this year!

Skills:
I am a great reader (books are some of my favorite toys!) and can finally ride a bike!  I am just starting to learn how to play baseball and I just started Karate lessons - both are fun but I have a lot of work to do in these new sports. I am still working with a Speech Therapist at school to improve my articulation with a main focus on "S" and "Th" and "R" sounds.

Likes: Mommy asked me a series of questions about my favorite things so here you go - 

Favorite friends at school - Miles, Edward and Dean

Favorite food - Waffles for breakfast, chicken nuggets or grilled cheese for dinner

Favorite show - Sid the Science kid or Octonauts

Favorite Movie - All 7 Star Wars movies

Favorite toy - LEGO or stuffed animals

Favorite place to go - Disney world or Legoland

Favorite animal - Housefly?!! or Peguins

Favorite color - Yellow

Favorite dessert - Yogurt Raisins, Ice Cream

Favorite superhero - Superman, Batman & Mr. Fantastic

Favorite supervillian - Mystique

Favorite sport - swimming

 

 

Dislikes: I am still a pretty calm kiddo who likes most things.  I dislike haircuts or being asked to try new foods.

What is to come: I have 7 more weeks of school at Glenkirk Elementary & Montessori for after school.  Then my summer of fun begins - I have weeks with my Gram, Nana, cousins, summer camps, and more all lined up before starting back to school in August in my new school - Victory Elementary.

Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday and for any presents you sent!

Happy Birthday to me!

This was a weird birthday - The week before my birthday we went to Disneyworld and St. Augustine which was awesome!  Then the weekend right before my birthday I spent the weekend with Gram and my cousins.  Then daddy left for a week and me and mom have been hanging out at home.  We did have a birthday celebration at school and then eat chick-fil-a on my birthday night.  Overall a fun couple weeks and I feel much older now that I am 6!

I also got a new cruiser bike a few weeks ago which I like and have gotten very good at balancing after just a few days of practice. Much easier than a bike with pedals for some reason.

Dexter in the middle for the Montessori birthday celebration - Miles, Charlie, Victoria, Adian and Gwen in the background.

Eating our fancy birthday dinner and free birthday ice cream!

Dexter playing minecraft and playing with his minecraft toys

5th Birthday!

 On my birthday we had a celebration at school.  Mommy and Daddy came to my class and we did our special birthday tradition.  The birthday kid sits in the middle with the earth globe, we sing "The earth goes around the sun and then Dexter was 1 (2,3,4,5)" and after each time I walk around the sun Ms. Kyou-Bin tells the class what I did that year and shows them a picture of me.  I was very excited to show my friends pictures of me when I was a baby.  I also showed mommy and daddy around my classroom and showed them how I am learning to spell small words by sounding out each letter, like cat, rat, etc.

Vital Stats:
Weight: 38.2 pounds  Height: 42.75 inches
 Clothes I wear size 4T shirts and pants, size 10 shoes

Skills:
Physically: I am very physically active, I like to run and jump and play - perhaps this lead to me breaking 2 bones this year. 

Verbally: My speech continues to improve and I am much more talkative than I was a year ago.  "S" still tends to be the hardest letter for me to pronounce but I am working on it at my speech class twice a week.

Likes: Mommy asked me a series of questions about my favorite things so here you go - 

Favorite friends at school - Edward & Miles

Favorite friends at home - Josh & Kyle

Favorite teachers - Ms. Kyou-Bin & Ms. Amanda

Favorite food - Peanut butter mini-bagel

Favorite TV show - I dont really watch TV - but I will watch any "Evan tube" video on youtube

Favorite Movie - Transformers 1

Favorite toy - Legos

Favorite place to go - Disneyworld

Favorite dog - Ophelia

Favorite animal - Giraffe

Favorite color - All colors

Favorite dessert - Chocolate

Favorite superhero - Batman

Favorite sport - swimming

 

 

Dislikes: Not a whole lot, I am a pretty mellow kid.  As long as I have some warning that change is coming (like bed in 10minutes or we are leaving soon) I tolerate change.  Sometimes I don't want to go to sleep because I would rather keep playing, but I go to bed without a fight.  

What is to come: I have about 6 more weeks of school and then our family will go to Florida to celebrate my great-nana's 90th birthday!  Later that summer I get to go back to Florida for nana's 70th birthday party! September 2nd I officially become a kindergartener.

Birthday Party!!

Setting up all the decorations

Kids eating pizza and fruit

Playing "Pin the Autobot sign on the Transformer"

Opening Presents

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Nicole, Dexter and Ben after the party

Today was Dexter's big 5th Birthday party.  It was a great party filled with tons of play on the bouncy house and exercise equipment in the basement and with Transformer and Lego toys play in the playroom.  Occasionally the kids would emerge from play long enough to eat pizza or cake outside on our patio.  The weather was perfect outside.   We had Mommy co-worker kids: Raine, Jayden, JV, Hayden, Carter, Caleb, Amelia & Zach.  We also had neighborhood kids: Josh, Kyle, Mackenzie, Aurora and Caleb.   It was an awesome day and I think all the kids went home exhausted!

Birthday party

My birthday was a fun day.  I had cake with my friend Audrey and played with my new toys.  I got to talk to my grandparents and cousins on Skype as well!  I wanted to go to the zoo but they were having a 5k race for the zoo that day so we avoided it and will be going to the zoo next Sunday for Mother's day instead. 

Also I updated my stats on my previous post.  I weighed 36.6 pounds, was 41 inches tall and in perfectly normal health according to Dr. Kim.  I also got 4 shots at my checkup - Mumps/Measles/Rubella, Varicella, Polio and Diphtheria/Tetanus/Pertussis.  She also filled out my preschool form so I am ready to start school in Virginia July 1st.  I can't wait to meet my new teachers and kids. 

Happy Birthday Boy

Baseball glove

Sidewalk chalk

Flying my Spiderman kite

Dexter and Audrey

4th Birthday!

Vital Stats:
Weight: 36.6 pounds  Height: 41 inches
 Clothes I wear size 3-4T shirts and pants, size 9 shoes

Skills:
Physically: Running, jumping, climbing is fun.  I have my first sport this summer playing in a T-ball league with my cousin Luke in Ohio.  I also have a 1 mile race in July in Virginia - I am hoping to dominate the 4 year old group. 

Verbally: My speech is much improved in the past six months.  Strangers can understand most of what I am saying now.  The letter "S" is still very hard for me to say correctly - but I am working on it and if you slow down and pronounce a word for me I can usually repeat it correctly.

Likes: Mommy asked me a series of questions about my favorite things so here you go - 

Favorite friend at school - Cadence 

Favorite friend at home - Audrey

Favorite teacher - Miss Isabel

Favorite food - spagehetti and meatballs

Favorite TV show - Caillou

Favorite Movie - Kung Fu Panda

Favorite toy - Captain America

Favorite place to go - school

Favorite dog - Bosley

Favorite animal - Penguins

Favorite color - Pink

Favorite dessert - Gummies

Favorite superhero - Batman

Favorite inside game - Putt putt saves the zoo (on PC or iPad)

Favorite outside activity - swings at playground

Dislikes:I dislike lots of things for a minute.  I will dislike the idea of stopping play to take a shower, but then I love it once I am in there.  Like most kids I throw a mini-fit if I don't get what I want, but I quickly get over it. 

What is to come: We have the big move in just two more weeks.  I am excited to spend 6 weeks with my cousins Cole and Luke in Ohio until we drive to Virginia and Daddy meets up with us.  Once I get to Virginia I will start at a Montessori preschool near my new house. 

Happy 3rd Birthday to me!

My birthday started with opening some presents in the morning (thank you so much to all that sent me a birthday present!).  Then I spent the afternoon driving to the middle of nowhere, New Mexico to watch mommy run 3 miles in the mud with 12 obstacles along the way.  I only watched the final three (climbing over a huge wall using a rope, swimming in a mud pit under barbed wire and jumping over fire pits).  It is called the "warrior dash" and they give you a cool viking helmet for running.  I liked the viking helmet, I am not a fan of mud it turns out.  Then at night going to a party at a local kids place.  It was a jungle animal place with lots of toys, bouncy houses and best of all a climbing place with four air guns in it that you could shoot foam balls from.  I really could not get enough of the ball gun.  And of course birthday cake!  I am now three years old and I can't wait to see how much fun I can have this year.  It should be my final year in New Mexico before we move next summer.

Two, but not for long

I am two.  Can you believe in just three more days I will be three!!  I will be spending my birthday evening at "Monkey Mania Adventure" a kids party place in Albuquerque with some of my classmates.  During the day mommy has a 5k "warrior dash" with lots of her co-workers.  Should be a fun weekend!

Cupcakes!

Birthdays are fun! People come over to play with you, you get to open presents and play with shiny wrapping paper. But best of all you get to eat cupcakes!

Mommy was determined to get this silly hat on me!

I had a wonderful birthday party, thank you to everyone who called to wish me Happy Birthday or sent a present to me!