I haven't written much about J in months.... today I feel the need to write some stuff down.
Over the winter holidays we drove thousands of miles to visit family 'back East' and this kid didn't bat an eyelash. I'd like to brag for a second and mention that we don't have a DVD player and he doesn't have an iPod. Just us, the road, some plastic dinosaurs, and a coloring book. I was terrified, and he proved to be just as good at traveling as my sister and I were at that age- before there were DVD players and iPods...
That's not all. He *loves* hiking... for hours and hours.
He begs for haircuts and sits perfectly still for the buzzers.
He is SO independent and can make his own PB sandwiches and even -carefully- pour his own OJ. He can put on his own unders, socks, pants, and coat.
He hasn't eaten a veggie (knowingly) since before Christmas.
Luckie is his best friend, they play chase and catch everyday.
He loves vintage Spiderman cartoons, and anything train, robot, or dinosaurs.
He can build a Lincoln-log house all by himself, slat roof and all.
He sings a song when he's playing with his trains that goes, "train tracks, train tracks... train tracks, train tracks..."
He is in constant motion. All. The. Time. Unless he's asleep, but then he's in motion again the second he's awake. He wakes me up in the morning and tells me I have nice hair, then asks if I'm awake and tells me it's time to eat. And then we hit the ground running. He's the energizer bunny reincarnate... Which is why I'm not worried that he hasn't had a veggie in months... He's obviously healthy (right? is that how it works? haha...)
He naps like a champ, like 2 hours a day, seriously. Man, I love that about him.
I love everything about him.
Yup. 3 1/2 year old Johnny. He is just what I needed in my life.
P.s. Last week he told me his feet were on fire because he was a rocket and it helped him fly. Today he asked me to fix his scraped knee. When I said I couldn't fix it, that it would heal in time, he asked me if he would grow a new knee, which totally, *totally* makes me grin.
P.p.s. Those two photos were taken like three days apart. Arizona is turning out to be a kind of strange place.
