Brian turns 6!

Brian turned 6 years old on January 31st. He chose to have a cinnamon roll for his birthday desert the day of and an angry birds cake for his birthday party at the bowling alley. It was a stressful week for us because our squadron lost a pilot (more on that later) so I felt like I barely threw together his party and cake. But he had a blast bowling with some of our squadron friends and a school bus friend. He loved his gifts and the cake and overall had a nice birthday and party. Now, I need a nice sunny day to take him outside for a 6-year-old photoshoot!

 

He's had quite the transition this year going from 12 hours a week of preschool and napping daily to moving to a foreign country and attending kindergarten 40 hours a week with a 45-minute-long bus ride each way. The poor kid has to get up at 6:30 on school days and we don't see him again until 3:15. Most days I feel like we do homework, play for a few minutes, eat dinner and off to bed he goes. I feel like I hardly see him during the week. He comes home exhausted and hungry and missing us. So he hasn't quite been himself these last 5 months, but we are slowly seeing the sweet, easy going kid coming out again. But he loves school and has fun and learns alot and has lots of friends, so it has been good for him too. He is learning to read and loves math, recess, PE, art and spanish. He loves to color and draws some really creative pictures and will spend 10 minutes describing one picture to you. He's lost his bottom two front teeth and gotten the adult teeth in already. He weighs 46 pounds and is 46 inches tall, still a tall and skinny guy. He loves to run and play outside and prefers that to watching TV. Although he's recently started playing some video games, luckily he loses interest in those after 30 minutes or so, and takes off upstairs to build a Lego fort or something. He still says funny and cute little kid things sometimes like a few days ago he asked me "Which cows are the ones that make the chocolate milk?" But most of the time he shocks me with the stuff he knows, like which colors you mix to get which colors, or how you say some random word in spanish, or when he randomly starts counting and makes it all the way to 400 before stopping because he's bored of counting! Our little guy is growing up fast!