I've been pretty bad at keeping my blog updated lately. Facebook makes it so easy to just upload pictures with a quick description or status update and call it good. A blog is definitely a lot more work.
SOOO, this is Luke's birthday blog post... 2 months late.
My handsome big boy, turned SIX on May 6 this year.
Where has the time gone.
He is such a great boy. Luke is my kind, gentle and sweet child (though Kate does tend to bring out the less sweet version of him sometimes. lol. Sibling love)
He is still a doting big brother over Eden and watches out for her so well.
He has just finished up his Kindergarten year and I am so proud of him. I compared his first report card to his 4th report card that came at the end of the school year and I cannot believe how far he came and what a total sponge he was throughout his kindergarten year. It's amazing just how much those little brains can learn in just 9 short months.
He is great at reading. His handwriting is so very neat and well written and he has excelled at learning his first bit of basic math. He mostly enjoyed school, but the long days did catch up on him. Going to school from 9am-4pm when you're only 5 is such a long day.
For Luke's Birthday we invited a couple of his friends over and had a small party at the park over the road from our house. It's definitely handy having that park so close. It makes for an easy, inexpensive and 'entertainment provided' party location :)
One of our goals for this summer was to teach Luke how to ride his bike without the training wheels. I am happy to report that just 17 days after he turned 6, he had it down. Now I watch him ride up and down the side walk with his friend from over the road and I am so amazed at how quickly he caught on. I see him riding, standing up, attempting to do 'tricks' like letting go of the handlebars and clapping his hands together while pedaling, lol and other 'dangerous' boy things. He's also toughened up so much since learning to ride his bike. When we first suggested taking his training wheels off, he wasn't interested because he was afraid he'd fall off and get hurt. It took 2 Saturdays for him to get more courageous about it. The first Saturday we tried without his training wheels he was scared and not really willing to try very hard. I'm not sure what changed, but the next time we tried he just got on and took off... he fell a couple times, (and still occasionally falls off because he's usually monkeying about), but instead of tears, he just got back up, scraped and bruised legs and carried on riding his bike. Now, his poor legs are permanently beaten up, but he's learned to brush it off and keep playing. I'm so proud of him.
We love our Luke so much.
SOOO, this is Luke's birthday blog post... 2 months late.
My handsome big boy, turned SIX on May 6 this year.
Where has the time gone.
He is such a great boy. Luke is my kind, gentle and sweet child (though Kate does tend to bring out the less sweet version of him sometimes. lol. Sibling love)
He is still a doting big brother over Eden and watches out for her so well.
He has just finished up his Kindergarten year and I am so proud of him. I compared his first report card to his 4th report card that came at the end of the school year and I cannot believe how far he came and what a total sponge he was throughout his kindergarten year. It's amazing just how much those little brains can learn in just 9 short months.
He is great at reading. His handwriting is so very neat and well written and he has excelled at learning his first bit of basic math. He mostly enjoyed school, but the long days did catch up on him. Going to school from 9am-4pm when you're only 5 is such a long day.
For Luke's Birthday we invited a couple of his friends over and had a small party at the park over the road from our house. It's definitely handy having that park so close. It makes for an easy, inexpensive and 'entertainment provided' party location :)
One of our goals for this summer was to teach Luke how to ride his bike without the training wheels. I am happy to report that just 17 days after he turned 6, he had it down. Now I watch him ride up and down the side walk with his friend from over the road and I am so amazed at how quickly he caught on. I see him riding, standing up, attempting to do 'tricks' like letting go of the handlebars and clapping his hands together while pedaling, lol and other 'dangerous' boy things. He's also toughened up so much since learning to ride his bike. When we first suggested taking his training wheels off, he wasn't interested because he was afraid he'd fall off and get hurt. It took 2 Saturdays for him to get more courageous about it. The first Saturday we tried without his training wheels he was scared and not really willing to try very hard. I'm not sure what changed, but the next time we tried he just got on and took off... he fell a couple times, (and still occasionally falls off because he's usually monkeying about), but instead of tears, he just got back up, scraped and bruised legs and carried on riding his bike. Now, his poor legs are permanently beaten up, but he's learned to brush it off and keep playing. I'm so proud of him.
We love our Luke so much.
