And He's Six!!

Wow - another post!! Two in one week.....Nathan must be gone or something ;)

Before I go into what all happened in January, we always wrap up the month of December celebrating a long-awaited birthday. It;'s a looooooonnnnngggg wait when it's the second last day of the year!

He wanted to decorate the cake - perfect!! And decorate he did :D :D

 

 

 

 

 

Opening up presents!!

 

 Keziah gave him a few homemade gifts: a telescope, and his very own sketch pad.....(I love the simplicity of this. She comes up with such great gifts, and he loves them!)

 

 

 Lincoln LOVES baseball, so we got him a real bat and ball. We have signed him up for T-ball for this summer. We hope he likes it! With the amount of times he asks to go out and play baseball, even in the dead of winter, he should.

So fun getting birthday phone calls!

 

 

 

 

 One of the best presents he got was Connect4. We have had many a tournaments since!! It is such a fun yet easy game for all ages.

A game not just for kids, either!!

Opa beat everyone......well, except for the queen of the house ;) ;)

So yes, this boy is now 6. He brings so much life and joy to our family. He can be extremely exhausting, which is more of my problem than his, but you can't help but love his zeal for life. He challenges me in more ways than I ever thought possible, yet makes my heart melt the very next minute. He is still bound and determined to marry me, even calling me his wife last Saturday - hahaha!!

 

 

 Still needs his mama.....

We are so thankful for this gift of a boy. We pray that God will continue to bless us with wisdom as we raise him to fear the Lord.

All Growed Up...

Yikes, the long-forgotten blog. Actually, it hasn't been forgotten at all, just not at the top of my priority list the last month or so. But here I am!

The last few blogs I had mentioned that a big change had taken place, and that it deserved a whole blog post on it's own. Have a flip through the pictures, and maybe by the end you'll guess what it is :)

It all started when he was about 2.5 months old.....and was seen while doing many activities, like swimming, going down a waterslide, hanging out in the jolly jumper, camping, getting into trouble, wrestling, watching the world go by, atving, and even at one point would not even come out when food was involved!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We tried to make it stop at 4 years.....

 ....but it didn't work, despite trying for 2 YEARS and going through boxes of band aids and rolls of duct tape.

 

But alas, with Gr. 1 starting, this boy really, really wanted to quit....

....and after two weeks of that awful tasting stuff painted onto his fingers, a 6 year habit came to an end. He was so proud of himself!!! He received a puzzle of one of his favourite things: a train.

So he considers himself now to be quite the tough little character.....

And like any habit that is broken, it is replaced with another one. I think we know what that is, now that it's been a few months. This.kid.does.not.shut.up!!!! Who knew he would talk SO much, that it is now getting him into trouble?! I think his teacher is secretly wishing he'd jam those two fingers back into his mouth......I know there have been times where I have!!

But we are enjoying an all "growed" up boy now - and what he all has to say (mostly...:P) Looking back over his pictures of when he was little, I will say that he was THE most content baby I had ever met. And I thank his fingers for that!!