Calvin is one of a kind.
He breaks the mold in many ways.
For a preschooler, he has relatively no fears.
Other than an occasional nightmare (which has been a very recent phenomena)
he doesn't get scared.
When I commented this to my brother, Derek, he said to me ,"He doesn't get nightmares because HE is the thing nightmares are MADE OF!!"
Okay point taken...
he IS still working on being kind and gentle.
If a kid is coming towards Calvin to hit him or he perceives they are going to hit him,
no worries he will get them first.
Really hard.
Sometimes I feel like I am raising this Calvin-
But even that Calvin can sometimes look like this-
And just like the cartoon above our Calvin can be so very very loving.
He is the most devoted to his family in our family.
He will tell me out of the blue,
"Mommy, I LOVE Daddy",
or "Mommy, I LOVE Peter (or fill in the blank with any other family member)".
When I ask him who his best friends are he always tells me
Jake and McKayla (two of his cousins).
He is the most excited of all my kids to see a grandparent or to visit a grandparents house.
His favorite show is
Wild Kratts
He loves to
build forts & play dress up
He loves to eat
salad
nutella on banana
vitamin C drink
candy
sugar cereal
He loves to
work out in the yard with Dan & use tools of any kind.
Dan says Calvin can work a full 8 hour day in the yard with him.
He loves to go to preschool with his friends Miles & Hudson.
For his birthday-
he wanted to eat
meatballs
chocolate chocolate cake
and get-
"a dragon like Jake's that shoots out fake fire".
Here he is with his dragon. It is electronic and can walk and growl very loud.
It's eyes glow red.
At the birthday party. Jake & McKayla were his guests along with his siblings. Mariah planned all the games including, "fishing" for fish with candy attached, pin the wheel on the sports car (Natalie helped with this one), Duck duck goose, hide & seek, musical chairs, blanket monster, and playing in the huge blanket fort (pictured above) which took up half of our playroom.
With the chocolate chocolate Buzz light year cake. Andrew made the cake and it was delicious.
Aunt Missy, Kallie, & Jake
Uncle Derek had the most fun at the party.
2 comments:
Uncle Derek had plenty of fun at the party...he was just pondering how his hairline crept back so far.
I was pondering the same thing as Derek- old man! The description of Calvin sounds just like one of my kids, except for the helping in the yard part. Well, Austin likes to help, but not the girls, they'd rather play all day. Looks like a fun party!
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