Happy 5th Birthday Mr. Pickles

This year we celebrated Wyatt's birthday at My Gym. He decided he wanted to invite all 15 kids from his preschool class so we had to find a space big enough to accommodate this request. Wyatt was all smiles and the kids all seemed to have a great time.

I can't believe what a big boy Wyatt has become in his first five years. His favorite activities are skateboarding, skateboarding and more skateboarding. When he is not skateboarding he is playing with his mini "tech deck" skateboards or watching skateboarding videos at Gigi's house. He also likes to play fireman with Malcolm and loves drawing pictures of sharks and, you guessed it, himself skateboarding.

He loves listening to music - Lady Gaga and Rihanna are favorites - but even with those singers on its hard to drag him on to the dance floor. He has grown in to quite an adventurous eater. (I honestly never thought I would ever get to say that about him.) He loves to eat sushi (avocado rolls, tuna rolls, miso soup and edamame are his favorites). He also LOVES pizza and has recently developed a taste for salmon. We also recently discovered that he loves powdered sugar doughnuts, like his mama.

Wyatt looks very forward to going to school (he now goes four days a week 8:30 am - 1:30 pm) and hanging out with his best buddies Edvin and Allistair. While there he tells me he likes to work on his "writers notebook" and the water drop lesson. He doesn't have a girlfriend at school this year because, "they are stupid." Yup, he's a five year old boy alright. (Obviously we discourage the use of the word stupid to describe anyone but, those are his words from our post-dinner discussion tonight where he told me, he and his friends just don't play with girls, as if there is really no other way to put it than, they are stupid!)

Wyatt also told me that they celebrated his birthday at school on Tuesday. Because he'd had another birthday, he claimed that meant that he was already five and a half! I tried to correct the math, but I'm pretty sure he is still convinced of it. Happy Birthday(s) little guy. We love you!