Alexander and his Mommy- post party
My sweet boy is 6 today! I can't believe it! He is starting school in the fall (well, August) and is just growing up so fast! I remember holding him as a baby, attempting to trace every part of his little body and absorb it in my brain so I would never forget how precious he was, telling myself, ' you can never forget this. Remember what he looks like, remember what he sounds like, remember what he smells like. Just remember this moment.' As much as I tried, I dont remember every single detail. I remember a lot, but not everything that I wanted to. Why can't I go back there? One day maybe that will happen. I will be able to remember all of my days (just the good ones of course) like I am in the very moment.
Alexander and I are tight. We had such a strong bond when he was an infant. I knew I could never love anything, anyone more. After those 12 weeks at home with him, I had to return to work. I tried everything not to have to go. It was so hard. Those 12 weeks went soooo fast! The morning I went back to work, I woke up and nursed Alexander in the rocking chair and cried and cried. How many of us have done that? He wouldnt take a bottle for like 8 hours that day and then finally got hungry enough I guess. I was so stressed. I would have quit my job if someone had told me to that day. Life goes on. My hairdresser said, "You have conquered one battle, but the big ones are yet to come."
I have the best time with my Xander (Maggie gave him this nickname when she was one)! He is a lot of fun to be around and so loving. He likes to be around grown-ups and invited all of his teachers to his party! He's also very smart. Grammy says he knows things her 7th graders dont know. He is really keen on directions and can tell if we are going East, North, South or West, or a combination of any two. Geography is a hobby of his. Two of the biggest hobbies of his are making movie posters and adding to his songbook. We have movie posters all over our walls with dates and pictures on them. You would think we lived at the movie theater! And, he copies all of the songs that he likes out of our church songbooks either on my parent's copier, or by having someone (like me or Bob or one of his grandparents) be his scribe (he says we are better at writing than he is). He also loves to create his own music, prompting us to put him in a class doing just that this summer!
Alexander loves to read and is really good at it! I think that he will love school! As much as I dread him starting, I think he will be really happy. Preschool was so good for him. He was sooo shy and it really helped to bring him out of his shell. We didnt want him to go to school last year even though he was 5 when school started. I didnt feel that he was emotionally ready even though academically he was. His teachers suggested giving him another preschool year and everyone I have talked to who have done this have all said it was a great decision. We just wanted to him to mature another year so he could be a leader and not a follower. This was such a good, wise decision for us! He definitely matured and found so much confidence! I just love my little boy so much! I helps me with the baby a lot- and I appreciate it so much! Andrew loves him to death and gets so excited when he sees him. I think the feeling is mutual.
Right now Alexander is excited about the new pool he got for his birthday from his Mammaw and Pappaw Wilson. We set it up and filled it with water this evening. He couldn't stand to be out of it any longer so I let him and Maggie get in when the water was pretty near where it was supposed to be to be full. I think the water was pretty cold because they were shivering and had goose bumps but they STILL wouldnt get out of the water! Maggie threw a huge fit when I made her get out.
Yes, her bathing suit is on backwards. Yes, she is three.
We had a Sponge Bob themed party for Alexander's birthday today. Alexander had a great time with his buddies. We have the best friends. I am so grateful for them. It was a perfect, sunny and hot day for water games, which is what we had planned. We did squirt guns and water balloons and had a wet sponge toss which turned crazy and had me and some of the other parents squeezing water on the kids and the kids doing it to us, too! Man, I was hot so it felt good! We also had a relay with felt Krabby Patties. I made all these felt krabby patties. One side of the burger was pink (the rare side) and one side was brown (the done side). I put wax paper on the grill which wasnt actually fired up (when we started doing this Maggie asked if she was going to get burned) and put the pink side up. The child had to use the spatula to flip the burgers over to the brown side, come over to the prep table and get a bun, put the burger on the bun, place cheese on it, lettuce and tomato and then pretend to eat it!
We also had a Sponge Bob pinata and lots of Sponge Bob cupcakes, ice cream cones and Krusty Krab Pizza (whole wheat bagels with spaghetti sauce and mozza cheese), fruit and plankton sticks (carrot sticks), Sponge Bob Cheese-its and Typhoon Blue punch (Hawaiian Punch and gingerale). I saw that Edible Arrangements had a Sponge Bob arrangement for $59. I thought,'That's cute but there is no way I am paying $60 for some fruit,' so Shawna and I decided we could do that ourselves much cheaper! I think that it turned out way cute and the pail only cost a dollar on sale at Walmart! I just drew Sponge Bob's face on it.
Alexander, I love you! I'm so glad and grateful you're my boy ("the first baby" as he calls himself) and congrats on turning 6! MWAH!
Blowing out the candles!
