Happy Birthday Surf Grom going to dawn patrol with Daddy.
Happy Birthday Dylan. We are as proud as you are that you are 4. It has been 4 amazing years. Thanks for bringing us so much joy! You are such a sweet, happy, healthy, smart and strong little boy and we could not be happier spending our moments with you. Love you more than you will ever know! Keep smiling, playing and loving life!
3-4 Year Milestones:
- 10.9.13 - 31lbs (50%), 36.75 (25%)
- First real train ride, Day out with Thomas
- Started Reading Lesson
- Started telling stories about our past as we were kids, having a conversation with him
- Helped build glider with Dad
- Read his first word - 10/3 Sam I am, Green Eggs and Ham
- Singing ABCs
- Telling Stories - And guess what?, Suddenly…
- Hudson pointed to a bicycle, Mom: That’s a bicycle, Dylan: bicicleta
- What’s your favorite time of day? Mom, I love playing with you. I love you.
- Snuggling in bed in the morning with us, rolls over “mom I love you and kisses me”
- Loveys names are gilbert and fixes things
- IN THE WHY PHASE - Dec. 5th
- I love you Hudson (when telling him good night) - 12/22
- I’m excited for you never to grow up - Dad, Yea, I am gonna be a mini dad - D - 12/16
- Moved to Hawaii - Jan 2014
- Climbing on counters
- Riding skateboard, loves to boogie board
- Trying to catch fish in the water
- Picky about what food he eats now
- Power struggles
- Loving tennis, I can’t stop playing tennis because I like it. Mini Tennis lesson with Rick at club. - Feb, 2014
- imagination soaring - using sticks and leaves as roasting marshmellows
- Doing most things by self - potty, picking out clothes, getting snack, milk, water, turn off on lights
- Playing with Hudson, being sweet
- Sharing room with hudson, playing before bed
- Cranking T ball
- 1st Ocean Swim/Snorkel - 2/23/14, saw yellow tangs, Marty fish
- 1st Snorkel time - Fish bowl in Makena
- Memorizing the curious george books - toy shop and the library. If you miss a word or say it incorrectly he will correct you.
- Picking out his clothes every morning
- Wanting to get his own food, snacks out of cabinets and fridge
- Not wanting to hold your hand when crossing the street
- Pumping legs and going high in the swing
- Slow to warm up, likes to sit back and observe until he feels comfortable
- Likes to wear athletic gear (UA stuff) and wakes up and wants to pick it out, no underpants and tuck in his shirt
- Loves to play with older kids
- Riding in the car on way home from Lahaina with Babs, Lauren and Grammie:
- Justin: Busy being bartender
- Babi: I’m busy tending to the chickens
- Dylan: Are we the chicknes?
- Babi gave Dylan the water bottle with little water in it
- Dylan: why is there little water in here?
- Obsessed with Under Armour clothes and only wants to wear them. Loves yellow outfit. - 3/2014
- Dad: How do you know your gonna be fast? Dylan: because brocolli has protein in it. (he was eating a ton of broc with hummus, climbing to get more off counter repeatedly.
- Wants Hudson to dress just like him, have books and picks them out, socks etc. Always looking out for H.
- How sweet Dylan is to his little bro. He is always looking out for him like when he fell down the bottoms steps and got stuck in between the stairs and wall and when he seemed like he was going to run into the road and Mom and Dad told him no because he would get ran over so Dylan is so concerned with him getting too close to the road. How he wanted to hold hands with Hudson and how loving Hudson was to hold his hand back. Dylan told him I love you Hudson and explained even when he bites him, is mean to him, angry, hits him he still loves him. Playing Hide and Seek together, reading books together.
- Dylan and Hudson are best Buds and not only expressing it with non verbal communication but in words! Dylan: Hudson, can I hold your hand? Hudson: Yea. Dylan: Let's go read books in our room. Hudson: ok, Yea. And there they go holding hands to their room by themselves.
- Remembering Memories - Austin had a percy,
- Into Building things - Lauren
- Building Legos
- Using phrases - Oh my gosh!
3.5 - 4
- Talking to, cooking for, showing/teaching kitty things (coloring, teaching kitty to make a dot, hold color in your hand, good job kitty!)
- Wanting to take 3 baths a day/play in tub (morning, after nap and bedtime)
- First Deep Sea Fishing Trip - Got sea sick
- Being shy with private parts. Covered himself to tell Ryan bye.
- Scared easily especially of robots
- Math Problem
- Imagination - fishing with sticks and kitty, being daddy to turtle
- Loves playing with cardboard boxes, string, sticks
- Dylan 34lbs 38.5 ht
- Opening car doors by jumping, buckling seatbelt
- Used word Brah like a real word
- First staycation in Maui
- Noticing and making rhymes: Bad and Dad alike
- Tennis Lesson at Club
- Likes play naked
- Helping H put on his shoes, get his helmet, getting his bike for him
- Acting out the piggie and elephant Big Guy Took my Ball book
- Paddling on his surf board with little paddle
- Asking Babi if he could give her a hug, “I have a hug for you, can I give you a hug?”
- Sayings:
- Talking about his car...Its an orbagini. It goes all the way down to the bottom of the ocean. U mean submarine? Nope an orbagini.
- Do you know what a tsunami is? No? It is really spicy! So spicy! You need a lot of water.
- Started Waldorf 3 mornings a week with Ms. Kim
- Loves legos
- Kisses his turtles eyes constantly
- Making up games
- Playing by himself
- Creative
- 1st Movie - Disney Fire & Rescue Planes - scared
- Using his imagination, pretending to have conversation on phone
- Loving School, drawing of ocean waves and sky with little houses at school. One of a big black fish
- D: U see me play soccer? Mom: What is favorite part of soccer? D:Stickers and cheers.