Isaiah isn't officially 5 until next Friday, but we will be hitting the road, and so I thought that I would post about him a little early. I can't believe that he is almost ready for kindergarten! He has been one constant joy after another. He is one of our favorite loves in our lives and we don't know what we ever did without him (maybe got a little more sleep). He is our early riser. We are still waiting for him to let us sleep in on the weekends past 6:30 a.m. He is constantly on the go and so when it's bed time and his head hits the pillow he is out within about two minutes or less. Yesterday Isaiah decided that it was time for his loose tooth to be out and let Brandon take the floss to it. Within 10 seconds it was out. He has been a little explorer lately everyday we are on watch. Because Braxton was the same way just not all at once like Isaiah.
Lately he has been experimenting like crazy:
~ If any of the soap and shampoo dispensers are remotely low, he experiments what will happen when I put water in here. It will be better right?
~ He has taken my clinique face wash and added water to it. Along with dumping it out onto his hands to see what it's like.
~ He fills the sink up with water and soap and pours cotton balls into it just to see what will happen to the cotton.
~ He has gotten a hold of my powdery makeup and dumped it out. and mixed my eyeshadow with the opposite brushes.
~ He has gotten into my mascara (That was one big mess).
~ He has taken one of our razors and slices his finger then dumped out the shampoo on the bottom of the shower all in one sitting. After which he said to us, "Umm, there kind of was a big problem in here."
~ He gets into the scissors and loves to cut paper (Thank goodness).
~ He claims that he was cleaning out the wooden drawer that holds his toothbrush when we see the one inch of water mess in the drawer right before church for that matter.
~ He has been showing his independence by climbing onto the counter to fill up his bowl with macaroni when I step out of the room. Yikes! Not to mention to get a snack in the cupboard when he thinks that I am going to say no.
~ Last Sunday he told his Primary teacher that he needed to go to the bathroom and so she sent him, but he didn't return. They searched the bathroom, but no sign of Isaiah. The Primary President said that they were in sharing time for Senior primary when they heard some noise in the baptismal font. Well, Isaiah was playing in the font. Thank goodness he didn't start turning on the water. When asked about this he just said that he knew that it wasn't safe and was just checking to see if anyone else was in there so that he could tell them to get out. YEAH Right! The kids is quick on his toes.
But all in all this little independent little boy has learned to do so much this year.
~ He can button the vest on his church outfit. (Yes)
~ He can brush his own teeth.
~ He can clear the dishes off the table after dinner.
~ He can get dressed by himself with the occasional shirt or pants on backwards and shoes on the wrong feet. (Pants? How?)
~ He loves to write his numbers and practices daily without being asked. (We are still working on 3's and 8's).
~ He can ride a bike
~ He can make his bed (Like a five year old would, but it's been made).
~ He is starting to learn how to read words like: sit, hill, cat, fat, the, is, mag, bag, rat, and. (Yes)
~ He is the Netflix master and can add movies to the instant Que which can be a problem. He has added the cartoon Family Guy and another cartoon that he thinks are cartoons that he should be watching. We monitor the Netflix daily if not more. Braxton even has asked him for help with it. What?
~ We are working on shoe tying. Not there yet, but almost.
~ He is a computer and wii expert.
~ He claims that Braxton is the great scientist and reader and he is the great artist. He loves to draw. And makes a little special friend at school a picture quite often. Her name is L-I-L-Y! Sigh And She makes his heart happy he told me one day on the drive home from preschool.
~ He loves preschool and has told us that he can't eat sweets because they talked about that in preschool. He gave the example of sweet potatoes(like we had at Thanksgiving), sweet corn, sweet meat. That type of stuff. When he was told that chocolate cake and chocolate were also sweet he looked at us like we were crazy and said "But they don't have sweet in them".
Is he ready for school? I think the answer is yes! Are we ready for him to be in school all day? The answer is definitely yes!
He is getting to be so big and is taller than quite a lot of the kindergarteners at Braxton's school. He has skinnied up this year and could get away with slim pants now, can you believe it?
All in all, we love this little guy. He keeps us young! We have been so blessed to have him in our lives. We are so proud of him and his willingness to try new things, headaches and all for us. But It's worth It!!!!
Happy Early Birthday Big guy!!!
