Four Already?

 

Wow, has it already been four years since I got up early on a Friday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, to go have my baby boy?  His daddy and I were in love from the start!

 This boy is full of personality!  On his actual first birthday (a Saturday), we loaded him up for his first professional photos.  He was a cutie with his big bald head and ear to ear smile!

Will still wears this same size 2T blue jacket that we bought him when he was almost 2.  The sleeves are too short now, but we haven't had time to find a replacement. Besides how much I love playing in cars and trains and in the dirt, the jeans, polo, blue jacket dress code makes having a boy so perfect for us!

I found this photo in the archives:  it was fall when he got his first bike, so he had to do practice laps in the basement.  Pants optional indoors.  That's still the rule.

Our 3 year old surprised us Fourth of July weekend last year by reciting Little Red Caboose word for word!  He was so proud, and so were we!  He still calls us out when we skips words in stories. 

And now at nearly 4, he has transitioned to VanMeter family favorite:  Scrabble!  He doesn't really play, but he'd sure like to!

I can't believe how wonderful the past four years have been, or how fast they have flown by!  We sure do love our little family of three!