today i have two birthday boys in the house,
a FABULOUS 4 year old and 41 year old!
scout benjamin gerber turned 4 on july 6th,
and today, july 10th is actually his daddy's birthday too.
(my mom and oldest sis also share this birthday with christopher - pretty cool)
because scoutie's birthday party took up most of the day,
it was agreed we would celebrate c's birthday next weekend.
(i should mention he did get a little fun in today - he and finn
had a sunset surf session in ocean beach). finn rode tandem.
for now, in keeping with my blog tradition,
scoutie's birthday post is where i list at least 4 things
i want to remember about my little guy at this age.
here goes:
1. huge obsession with puzzles and boardgames
he spends hours doing both....especially puzzles because he can do these on his own.
it's not unusual for him to put together 6 or 7 puzzles and take them apart 2 or 3x within a day.
(you can guess what he got for his birthday)
2. he loves his big brother finn
at home, they are together alot. scoutie has a friend named finnigan in his preschool class,
but whenever he is referring to his brother, it's always "my finn".
he couldn't be more clear to us. *wink*
3. he loves singing, especially in the car
his song list is quite diverse - ranging from preschool songs, glee showtunes, to james taylor.
he makes requests alot and if there is a song he's especially fond of, he asks me to drive around
the block a few times so he can listen to the entire song before we get home.
4. he is a natural athlete
whether it's dribbling a soccer ball, whacking a ball with a bat or riding his bike,
this little boy has some skills. when i go for my 5 mile run on the bay, he joins me on his bike.
of course, i run way behind him now. his training wheels came off when he was just 3 yrs and 2 months
(and they probably could have come off a good month before...momma just wasn't ready). *grin*
and i added a few extras because it's just too darn difficult to describe scoutie in just 4 lines.
5. he's crazy about corn on the cob
in our home, the birthday guest of honor gets to request whatever meal they want.
can you guess what this corn boys asked for? *grin*
6. almost daily he tells his daddy and i how much he loves us
i'm not sure there's anything sweeter than coming home in the evenings and hearing these words.
his favorite lines for measuring his love for us are "i love you to the moon and back, to pluto and back,
to infinity, or all the way up to outer space and back."
7. he calls himself an artist
you can often find scout sitting at the kitchen table or in his invention room writing, coloring or drawing.
for a while his favorite thing to write was his name - he'd write it dozens of times on a piece of paper.
his new thing is writing the alphabet a-z over and over (he only gets a few letter backwards).
ask him what he wants to be when he grows up and he will respond "an artist, but i'm one now too". *grin*
