Height 39.5 inches (38 inches last year); 29%ile
Weight 35 lbs (32 lbs last year); 41%ile
Ability to stop crying after getting a vaccination: 10%ile
Still not as big as a brachiosaurus.
The first thing Aaron asked me the day after he turned four was, "Am I five yet?" Sometimes it feels like he is four, sometimes like he is 14. He is alternately adorable, inquisitive, funny, lovey, and petulant. Luckily, he is the former much more often than the latter. He has definite opinions about what he likes (Power Rangers, cars, dinosaurs, mac and cheese) and doesn't like (bedtime, Indian food, vegetables). He definitely doesn't like Mondays. I feel like I am raising Garfield.
He had a good four year old birthday- cupcakes at school and a small party with family friends, including Baba and uncle Jonathan. I put "no gifts" on the party email, which was silly. He doesn't need anything, it had just been Chanukah and Christmas, and I don't want people to feel obliged to bring a present, but a four year old expects presents on his birthday. He was a little disappointed that only a few people went against my wishes. He was over it by the next day, but it was a rookie mistake.
Cupcakes for school
We had a great visit with uncle Jonathan, who was in the US for a month. We saw him in Worcester and then he came to NJ. There is a little bit of competition between Aaron and Jon as regards my mom's favor. My mom mentioned that she was going to Africa in the spring. Aaron asked why, and she said, "Because my boy will be there." Aaron's response: "I'm moving to Africa?"
Aaron was moved into the Red Room at school. The Red room is the pre-K room. He was in the Purple room, but he was not being challenged enough. We would not have moved him, but the teachers thought that he should be in the next "grade" up. Fine with me, but he is a year younger than some of the kids in the Red room and it hasn't been an easy transition. He can do the work (and the homework!), which is mostly practicing writing letters and some sight reading words. He loved his friends in the purple room, though, and that's been a little hard. We are not moving him to kindergarten a year earlier, so those friends will join him in the red room in September. It's preschool. I don't want to over think it.
Practicing the letter P
