I decided to spend the next 3 days and focus on one kid a day. It made the most sense then to start with Jack! My little man is growing too quickly that I can hardly stand it! He's almost done with his Kindergarten year and has a love hate relationship with school. He is a good student, a kind and respectful kid, listens well and tries his best, everything a parent wants from their child! There is the occasional day however, where he would rather stay home and play video games and those days he tells me how much he dislikes school. I suppose that makes him a pretty typical kid and I couldn't be happier! He is also way busier than I remember being at 6 years old, but I know that falls on us allowing it rather than on him. His current schedule is as follows: football practice Monday night, Gymnastics practice Tuesday night, Awana at church and football practice Wednesday nights, Gymnastics practice again on Thursday night and Football games Sat. Mornings. T-ball will be starting in about a month, but Awana will be done in two weeks. When he started Gymnastics at age 2 1/2 we just wanted to get him in something active. Now he is on the pre team for Trampoline and tumbling at his gym and doing great! I never imagined that he would still be in it after all this time, but he loves it.
I actually had the very serious conversation with Jack that maybe it was time to pick one or two things and take a break from the rest and he looked at me with big puppy eyes and said, "Do I have to quit something?" I said I thought he was too busy and maybe we should focus on the ones he loved the most and he told me, "but I love them all". This is that part of parenting that stinks because I know we are not going to be able to keep this up for long and we'll have to scale his schedule back a bit.
One of my favorite things about Jack though is what a sweet kid he is. He is always trying to find ways to make people smile and has a kind heart. When I tell him that he can't grow any more he always replies with, "but even if I get big I will still give you hugs and kisses!" That's my sweet guy! He loves both of his sisters but is crazy about Alex. For now he doesn't mind if she is always around and asks her to play with him! I'm not naive enough to think that this won't change, but for now it's nice!
I am excited to see the young man that he continues to become and know that with a heart like his he will do great things that will benefit many people! For now though I am just enjoying being around his 6 year old energy and trying to keep up!!
I decided to spend the next 3 days and focus on one kid a day. It made the most sense then to start with Jack! My little man is growing too quickly that I can hardly stand it! He's almost done with his Kindergarten year and has a love hate relationship with school. He is a good student, a kind and respectful kid, listens well and tries his best, everything a parent wants from their child! There is the occasional day however, where he would rather stay home and play video games and those days he tells me how much he dislikes school. I suppose that makes him a pretty typical kid and I couldn't be happier! He is also way busier than I remember being at 6 years old, but I know that falls on us allowing it rather than on him. His current schedule is as follows: football practice Monday night, Gymnastics practice Tuesday night, Awana at church and football practice Wednesday nights, Gymnastics practice again on Thursday night and Football games Sat. Mornings. T-ball will be starting in about a month, but Awana will be done in two weeks. When he started Gymnastics at age 2 1/2 we just wanted to get him in something active. Now he is on the pre team for Trampoline and tumbling at his gym and doing great! I never imagined that he would still be in it after all this time, but he loves it. 
I actually had the very serious conversation with Jack that maybe it was time to pick one or two things and take a break from the rest and he looked at me with big puppy eyes and said, "Do I have to quit something?" I said I thought he was too busy and maybe we should focus on the ones he loved the most and he told me, "but I love them all". This is that part of parenting that stinks because I know we are not going to be able to keep this up for long and we'll have to scale his schedule back a bit.
One of my favorite things about Jack though is what a sweet kid he is. He is always trying to find ways to make people smile and has a kind heart. When I tell him that he can't grow any more he always replies with, "but even if I get big I will still give you hugs and kisses!" That's my sweet guy! He loves both of his sisters but is crazy about Alex. For now he doesn't mind if she is always around and asks her to play with him! I'm not naive enough to think that this won't change, but for now it's nice!
I am excited to see the young man that he continues to become and know that with a heart like his he will do great things that will benefit many people! For now though I am just enjoying being around his 6 year old energy and trying to keep up!!
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