Happy 4th Birthday

This past year has been an extremely fun (and challenging) year with you, Crawford!  At your core you are kind hearted, caring and loving and I so hope that you never loose those wonderful qualities that make you, YOU!

• You always want to do things as a family
• You are constantly telling Jane Clare how pretty she is
• When asked who your best friend is, it's usually Jane Clare
• You wished (in a fountain in Duke Garden) for Nanu not to be sad about Granny dying
• You also wished for Granny
• You made Granny a card with tape to bring to her grave
• You saved some of your hair, after a haircut, for Tin Tin because a few weeks before, she asked if she could have some of your hair because it was so thick and pretty.

You are funny!

• You told me you thought I was going crazy when I turned up the radio and started singing and clapping
• But you love to "crank up" the music in daddy's car and listen "big brother music"
• You wish Poppie had a pig at his house
• "Oh, Man!" is your saying of choice when something goes wrong right now
• And you love to call everyone a silly goose
• You call Jane Clare "Jane Chair"
• You always want mommy or daddy to tell you a story at bedtime - has to be one from our lives and one you haven't heard, "in a long, long time."

You love to help!

• With Anything
• Cook
• Sweep
• Put diapers in the garbage
• Take the garbage out
• Put clothes away

You want to be an excavator driver, a bobcat driver, a pressure washer, a digger and a builder right now.  You are promising that you are going to build me and daddy our next house.  So far you've asked what we want it built out of and what color we want it painted.

You enjoy your routine.  You started speech and occupational therapy this year and that is going well.  You are working on your K and G sounds as well as T, D, N and W.  You have made great progress since starting in February!!

Some funny stories I don't want to forget:

• We were talking about big boy school and how you would go when you were almost five and I told you I was going to cry because you are getting too big.  Your sweet response, "Mom, that's what happens.  Don't cry silly goose; everyone grows up!
• One of your favorite subjects to discuss right now is God and heaven - you said you didn't want to go to heaven when you died, you would rather stay in your house because it would be too busy up there...it will be wild with all of those people.
• You also wanted to know on a beautiful, sunny day how the people in heaven weren't falling down, since there weren't any clouds to hold them up!
• You love to have "sitting time" on daddy's lap before bed time every night!

You are one wild and crazy, all boy, sweet, wonderful, handsome four year old!  We never knew we could love someone so much!!!  Happy Happy Birthday!