Life of a Hunter: My 4 Year Old

My baby is 4! What?!? When did this happen.

I swear we were just bringing him home from the hospital trying to figure out this parenting thing. We are still figuring it out by the way. Easton teaches me so much and I am so grateful to call him mine. He is stubborn, strong-willed, and full of spunk- BUT he is also the sweetest, most loving, social, and fun little guy around. He never ceases to surprise me and he is always cracking me up.

For the primary program coming up in a few weeks (his first might I add!) the leaders stuck true to making it realistic by having the kids answer their own questions. For Easton his line is, "I can be like Jesus by loving everyone!" And in his case this is really true. He has no bias or judgments and really wants to be friends with everyone.. even the creepy guy at the grocery store. He says "Hi" to everyone... literally everyone! The person walking by in the parking lot, the person standing behind us in the grocery store, the person at the drive-thru, the lady in the elevator... He really just loves to smile and say hi to everyone he sees- and also tell them about everything going on in his life-which needs translating half of the time. Luckily people are sweet and smile and nod like the understand.

Speaking of translating- We went in for Easton's 4 year old check-up and his Dr suggested we take Easton in for speech therapy. He talks a lot but he has an articulation problem, which leaves me translating most of the time because a lot of people can't usually understand what he's saying. Lets just hope insurance will cover some of it because cost was one reason that kept me from looking into it on my own. We're praying about it though and hoping that if we do decide to do it it will help him when he enters school in a few years.

Now more about our Easton- as Easton

He loves to be a crazy boy! Climbing all over furniture, jump from off the stairs, climb up the rail of the stairs... or pretty much do anything that make me cringe and worry.

He talks ALOT. Even if you can't understand everything he loves to talk and tell stories.

He thinks farting is the funniest. One day he came up to me and said

E- "Mommy, it smells like poop in there." (A day after we had a poop explosion from a little boy a was watching so immediately I was concerned)

Me- "Why does it smell like poop Easton?"

E- "Because I farted!"

He is smart. After reading a book to him a few times he can read it back to you from memory. He's done this with about 2 or 3 different books. He also loves puzzles and is really good at them.

He knows all his basic colors. He can count to 15. He can sing the ABC's by himself (we're working on letter recognition). And he can tell you shapes and does good with patterns. Also, since school started he's been practicing writing his name, which gets better every time.

He is very sensitive to different emotions and has a good way of knowing exactly when I need a hug or a sweet "I love you."

He loves Mario and loves playing Jameson's old game Mario Kart on his Nintendo DS. He learned pretty quickly how to control it all himself. Bribery with that thing is never overrated!