He loves sports more than I realized was humanly possible, especially at six. He will watch them all, even ice dancing, for hours on end. He wants to know why they do what they do and how they do it and he memorizes their every move and statistic. He can play most of them quite well, or at least the backyard version. He played on the school soccer team in the Fall and will do so again this Spring. He's also signed up for tee ball, so we'll see how that goes. He loves watching soccer with Kenny and plays more FIFA on the kindle than he probably should. He's a Lions football fan, Nationals baseball fan and Liverpool soccer fan.
He only recently gave up his nap, and honestly, sometimes he still takes one on the weekend. He eats few things, but eats them well. Since school started he's put on about 4 lbs and 2 inches. He wears a 6 slim and is all leg.
He thinks he loves Pokemon. The bigger kids at daycare play and he wants so badly to be one of them. I have tried to understand what I hope is this "phase," to no avail. I have read the instructions and even the guide for parents on the internet and I think the conclusion that I have come to is that either I am not as intelligent as I once thought, or he doesn't play it right. Either way, my take on such things like this, that I'm not a huge fan of, is that they go away faster if I don't resist. And the game, at least the way he plays it, seems to contain a fair bit of math, which can't be bad.
Speaking of math, he's quite good at it, and very interested. He does very well at simple addition and subtraction and is even catching on to the patterns associated with adding together larger numbers. Fractions and tally marks are his favorite part of school I think. Just this past weekend he was curious about how to tell time on a "real" clock and after about 5 minutes, he seemed to get the hang of it. He was very excited to get to count by 5s!
He enjoys school, except Spanish, which he really loathes. They have it twice a week, on back to back days, and he really just doesn't like it. I'm not entirely sure why except that I expect it doesn't come easily to him, which just leads to frustration. Other than that, he has really taken quite well to school and is doing great. I will admit I never anticipated it would go this smoothly!
Jack is so very thoughtful. He worries about everyone (and every thing!), and while sometimes that's exhausting and leads him to be very on edge, it is also a big part of what makes Jack, Jack. He's quite perceptive about how people are feeling and works hard to keep them happy, especially me.
Six isn't so old that he doesn't still want snuggles, thank goodness. I still get to snuggle with him before bed every night and if he's tired or has had a long day, he'll ask for snuggles on the couch when we get home. I am usually trying to do 28 things in that hour after school, but nothing makes me drop them all faster than a request for snuggles. I know those days are numbered so I try to take all that I can get.
Speaking of his party, this year we had a friend party, with a lot of friends, at SCOR. Jack wanted a baseball party, but with the weather so iffy on his birthday, we knew better than to plan that outside at our house.
It turned out to be super easy and the kids had a ball.
We gave him a Bryce Harper jersey and some tickets to a Nationals game in a few weeks. He was on cloud nine.
He's smart, he's funny, he's thoughtful, sweet, happy and healthy. What more could a mother possibly want? I love you Jack Lion. You make me so proud and I just love the boy you have become. I can't wait to see what's next...
