Will

Happy Birthday Baby Lumpkins!

This is Will.  The funniest kid on the planet.  My little buddy.  He turns 4 today and is officially a big boy.  Really.  4 sounds very big boy to me.  I'm the tiniest bit sad.  I'm not one of those parents who gets sad and weepy each time her kids have a birthday, in fact I am enjoying my kids more and more as they get older.  It's just that this little buddy is going to start kindergarten soon and then he's a REALLY big boy and I'll miss him so much when he goes to school.  

It is a very good thing I believe in hospitals and modern medicine as each of my children were in need of medical assistance at birth.  With Will it was nothing major, just a bit of "scooping" because he was good and stuck.  We're not talking a few extra pushes.  I tried.  I tried for 4 hours!  They had to yank him out with the hideous forceps (all the while my cute 65 year old doctor with full makeup, pearls and high heels is singing, "oh some must push and some must pull"), because he was 8 lbs 14 oz and had a massive head.  That little mark by his eye is from the forceps.  Poor little monkey!  


So, of course, I'm going to list my top 20 things I love about Will...

1) He tries very hard to be a good boy (he isn't always perfect)...

2) He comes running into my room every morning and says, "hi mom, I have to go tinkle".

3) He is just like me and loves to watch movies with blankets and popcorn on the couch.

4) He is one of the silliest kids EVER...

5) He loves sports and gets very excited to go to sporting events or playing sports with anyone...

6) He loves his baby sister soooo much

7) He loves to learn and hated his preschool orientation because "[he] didn't learn anything".

8) He turns himself in for lying all the time because he literally thinks his nose will grow.

9) He sings and dances like nobody's business...

10) He cried when I told him he couldn't be Chinese someday.

11) He LOVES Disney as much as us!

12) He thinks he can speak Spanish and feels sorry for me because I can't.

13) He has a huge heart and has compassion for others (at age 4). 

14) He says things like, "Dad, what would I ever do without you?"

15) He describes dinosaurs as having "stompy feet".

16) He loves dressing up...

17) He has adorable buddies that he loves (and a fiance)...

18) He is the most dramatic child on the planet.

19) He really is a little angel boy (even though sometimes you have to dig deep).

20) He's just so cute...

Happy Birthday Sweet William!  I love you so much!