Oct 01 2008
October cometh
This morning Fuller helped me change the calendar in our kitchen. It is a Melissa & Doug magnetic calendar I picked up for very cheap when a local craft store was closing.
I made a big deal out of the changing of the month because October is a bigger deal here due to Fuller. He had known his birthday is October 5th for quite some time. But the concept of October really wasn’t real to him until today. And now he knows his birthday is on Sunday, thanks to the “My Birthday” magnet we placed on the square with the 5 magnet.
I keep looking at Fuller and wondering when he turned into such a big boy. I marvel over how he dresses himself (still needing some help with shirts) and I grin widely every time he rushes to the bathroom to take care of his own business. I know our lives are going to change drastically in February, so enjoying these moments of independence and growth are becoming even more important to me.
And Fuller is looking forward to telling us all he is “Four! Which comes before Five!” starting on Sunday.
Next year when he is turning 5 it will be his golden birthday – 5 years old on the 5th!
The card is in the mail, the gift is not. If 5 comes after 4 what do you do when you run out of numbers? I was 22 so long ago I forget what that ‘golden’ day was like.
Enjoy the four year old big boy. Too soon he’ll be a young man and you’ll really wonder when it happened. It happened to my little boys, it will happen to yours too. Keep up the good parenting