Jack Emmet: 4 years

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2 years // 2.5 years // 3 years // 3.5 years

You // You are such a little boy these days! You love playing superheroes and having powers and you love playing on your own.

Growing // At your 4 year checkup, which happened about a month after your birthday, you weighed 37 lbs 9.6 oz (61st percentile) and you measured 39.75 inches (32nd percentile). It's crazy to think you've only gained a few lbs since your 3 year checkup, but I laugh because people are always commenting on how heavy you are compared to their kids around your age. :)

Eating + Sleeping // You love breakfast! You wake up wanting breakfast, and quite often you eat multiple bowls of rice chex for breakfast. You love eggs and toast and quesadillas and bananas and you've started eating apples and carrots and ranch. You love sweet potato fries and burgers and pasta! And you love pizza!

We try to get you to bed by 7 PM these days and you are normally up by 6:30/7. You literally bounce out of bed and request that everyone bounce out of bed the same way as you. Dada and Ryan could just lay in bed for hours after waking up, okay maybe not hours, but they don't have the same bounce as you do. Perhaps that's because Ryan's still in his crib? And he can't just get out! Regardless, you come into our room declaring, "Mama get up! Get up mama!!" Over and over and over again, until I reluctantly pull back the blankets and place my feet on the cold hardwood floors.

You dropped your nap a few months ago, which I was reluctant to let go of, but now you just go to bed earlier at night and it's probably for the best. Before you go to bed, we read books, and cuddle on the bed, and then walk you across the hall to your room, and quite often, your little voice says mama lay down. And I do until you fall asleep. You start off in your bed, but sometime in the middle of the night you roam into our room and we walk you back to your bedroom and do it all over again.

Nicknames // We still call you Jackie alot, and I've started calling you pup.

Wearing // The majority of your clothes are 4T. Your shoe size is a 9/10. You love picking out your clothes in the morning and getting dressed. You're really particular with what you wear and you have these black Nike shoes that you just love and this black coat with finger holes that tutu bought you that you'd wear every single day if I let you. The funny thing is that the coat is a size 2T so it really should be in Ryan's closet. And you really love wearing hoodies and your paw patrol shirts I bought you for your birthday. And you LOVE jeans! I had to buy you a few pairs of jeans for Christmas so you'd have more than 2 pairs to wear as you'd have a little emotional breakdown when I'd inform you that your jeans were in the dirty laundry basket. There have been a few instances where you've taken the clothes out of the basket in search of said dirty jeans. Bless you child. You are determined! And you know exactly what you like in regards to clothes.

Loving // You love when we give you attention, but you also love when we leave you alone. Sometimes you even say, I want to play on my own mama! You love superheroes and power rangers and anything with powers. You love playing make believe. You love books and lego and little lego guys and play do and coloring. You really love creating things. You love paw patrol and jumping off the table onto the couch. You love video chats and stickers. And you love watching YouTube Kids and these random home videos of transformers and things. It's hilarious! You LOVE being outside and riding your bike. And you love dressing up in costumes and pretending. And you LOVE being around people. And you love babies, so much.

Loathing // You don't really like when we tell you what to do! And you really don't like when Ryan plays with something you're playing with.

Doing // You are dressing yourself and undressing yourself! And helping with chores around the house. Excusing yourself from the table and clearing your place at the table and washing dishes and putting your dishes in the dishwasher. And you're pretty good at cleaning up your toys and putting things away. Everything has a place in this house and you know exactly where that place is and always remark when something is in the wrong spot!

Milestones // First time throwing up on an airplane! And first trip to the ER in another state! First time being a shepherd.

Words/Phrases // One Minute, Never say that, It's giving me a hard time, You're not being nice, Sorry! Love you mama, Love you dada, love you Ry Guy. Where us going today mama? What planet are we on?