Five Years Old!

February 22, 2005---Five years ago the doctor held up Eddie for Den and me to see with one hand supporting his head and his other hand holding up his body. Fast forward to Feb. 22, 2010 and Eddie walked into our room, toting this balloon, asking why we had given him a letter 'S'.

I made him 7 layer jello to bring into preschool and then got him blue-frosted cupcakes for after dinner desert.

Icing, the best part!

I used to do regular updates of the kids as they aged. At five years old, Eddie can write his name and can read familar words, such as the names of people and words he sees all the time. He can write all the letters of the alphabet and count to 100. Every now and then he gets up higher and we have discussions about 100s, 1000s and even more conversation about infinity.

His pre-engineering skills are developing nicely and he can assemble things his mama can't and seemed to be able to read multi-step instructions really well to assemble toys.

I hesitated writing about his likes and dislikes too detailed, this being a public blog and all. However, I will say he is your typical 5 year old boy. Den and I remain convinced he has a photographic memory.

I love watching him interact with his sister. I marvel at all he can do at five. I'll try and write more later...but need to get this up before it's Josie's birthday.