Somebody is FOUR! How is this baby four years old? ;)
Height: 40-1/4 inches (50th percentile)
Weight: 36.4 pounds (50th percentile)
Blood Pressure: 96/56
He passed his vision and hearing tests!
At four years old, Walker is an artist. Just kidding. :) But really, he loves to color…each picture is carefully colored and the colors are carefully selected. He's concentrating very hard, as you can see in this picture.
smiley :)
What we do: trace a Hot Wheels car and then color it accordingly. And then we add a hill, the ground, sometimes a sun…maybe some fire. Walker refers to this as his "homework" and of course always wants to do his "homework" when Lainey has to do her homework. (Read: Both kids need my attention at the same time. Brilliant strategy, Walker.)
sister :)
Remember when he used to this as a baby? He will still do this to make his "excited face."
I had asked him to make a mad face…and he did this. He said, "Here is my cross face!" (Thanks, Thomas the Train, for introducing new words into our vocabulary!)
Funny stories from Ikea…
- He picked up one of the small plastic trash cans on display and said, “Look, Mommy! Big cups!” And then pretended to drink from it.
- When we were walking down the big warehouse aisles I told him that I was nervous and scared because it looked spooky. He took my hand and said, “It’s okay, Mommy. I right here. It’s okay.”
I love that he still says…
- “kecause” for "because"
- “disgustin’” for "disgusting"
- "teef-es" for "teeth"
- "lellow" for "yellow"
- “faw-kles” for "sparkles"
- "Sfell you late-uh!" for "Smell you later!" (His standard phrase when leaving someone.)
- "ghost-es" for "ghosts"
- "bootiful" for "beautiful"
- "masheeme" for "machine"
- "fangs" for "things"
- "teef" for "teeth"
- When he does small poops in the potty, he refers to them as "marbles" and when he flushes the potty, they all go down the "marble run." Not sure why this is so funny to me.
- "Captain's Booty" instead of "Pirate's Booty" (Pirate's Booty is a snack, for anyone who doesn't know!)
Sweet Stuff:
- Me: “I love every single part of you, Walker.” (He knows I love his toes/feet and his tiny little bottom the best.) Walker: “I love every single part of you, too, Mommy.”
- Obsessed with cars, race tracks, drawing cars, zooming cars, building tracks with "20 fangs (things)" etc…
- He's quite content to be little…he doesn’t like to attempt things because he might fail. Ex: buckling his car seat. His reason is “Lainey is older than me.” (As the reason why she can buckle herself in her seat.) He will get upset and tell me, "I don't WANT to be a big boy!"
- He often says “what” instead of “why” or “who.” For example, if I were to say, “We need to hurry downstairs so we can eat.” His answer would be “what” instead of “why.”
- When he refers to someone that he likes, but he doesn't know their name, he calls them "my best friend.":) (This also applies to me and my friends!)
- Does a really good “vrooming” sound when his car revs its engine!
- He likes having his cars “biff” each other off the cliff and into the “sea.” (Again, thanks to Thomas the Train.)
Other stuff:
- He still gets SO frustrated. And has some OCD tendencies. Example: Sometimes…he needs the pillows to match. If the pillows aren’t lined up the same way on the couch….the pillow order has to be the same and the placement up against the couch also has to be the same.
- When he wants my attention, he says, "MommyMommyMommyMommyMommyMommyMommyMommy" over and over until I respond. And I TRY to ignore it for as long as possible. But I can only ignore it for so long. He usually does this when Lainey's trying to talk to me and he wants my attention.
- He's really good at counting, using one-to-one correspondence, and identifying letters and numbers.
- He knows that his teachers and his parents don't think it's funny when he burps all the time. I told him that once, and his response was, "But my friends do." :)
- He tries to be patient. But every once in a while, he just gets "tired of being patient." :) I understand that.
We love our sweet boy. It's hard to believe you are FOUR years old, Walker!
Happy Birthday, Buddy. :)
