Milestones

Dear Alex,

You are my spunky little five year old boy and I love you to pieces. Right now you are so excited about starting kindergarten in the fall. Today you asked me: "Mommy, the day after we move to Kansas, I'll start kindergarten, right?" I explained it would be a couple weeks and you said "well, there's only 7 days in a week, so that's not too long!"

Yesterday, you learned how to pump on the swing all by yourself! It was such a proud moment for both of us! You said you couldn't wait show your kindergarten teacher that you can swing all by yourself. You've spent A LOT of time out there on the swing by yourself lately, just swingin' away.

You also learned how to read a couple months ago, and that is a HUGE milstone that Daddy and I are so proud of your for. You started out back in February sounding out words and you just kept at it until you were reading short books. We got you a set of "Bob" books with twelve little stories in the set, and you plugged through the first set, and then it seemed like you just breezed right through the second 12 books. We are so proud of you. You are reading lots of things now!

You are so outgoing and friendly and I'm so excited for you to make new friends in Kansas. You make us so proud Alex!

Love,

Mommy