Nathan 5 Years Old

 

We just love our happy Nato. Nathan has the biggest smile, cutest squeal, and has a love of life that is infectious. He is such a tender kid with a tender heart. Nathan turned 5 in March. He has had quite the year of firsts! He got to start Kindergarten in the Fall after his Preschool ended abruptly in March due to COVID, he was excited to start at the big school. Mom was a little nervous that his first experience of school was going to be with a mask on and some social distancing guidelines in place. He made it a few months enjoying himself and then had a week or so of tears on drop off. At that point, we got COVID and he was home for a month. After that break he was excited to return again! He was our longest on quarantine since he was the last to get it. Nathan also has had his first real year of playing AYSO soccer. He loved every second of it. He was a super defender, a lefty, and seemed to really enjoy it. He is constantly practicing in the house. He plays from front door to backdoor and dribbles and shoots several times a day for the last several months. He loves it! He also got to try his hand at basketball. He is super cute trying to dribble that basketball. He is actually a pretty good shooter for being so little! He seems to like that too, so maybe he is taking after his big brothers! Nathan loves to play video games, he loves Dude Perfect shows, and he loves loves loves music. He is constantly turning on songs to listen to. He is what we call our “lyric kid.” Randomly throughout the day he hears things and immediately busts into a song that it reminds him of. He loves to hum to himself. He also enjoys doing crafts and coloring. We have gotten perler beads out several times in the last 6 months as a form of entertainment and he will sit down for hours making those things. He loves to play with Graham. Those two are like little twins. They wrestle and giggle all day long. They also have their fair share of arguments, but their relationship is so precious. I am so glad they have each other. I put Nate in afternoon Kindergarten and I am so glad I did. It gives Graham someone to play with in the morning and Nate is only gone while he naps. Nathan is kind of a go getter. When he wants to learn to do something he works hard on it. He wants to learn a front flip, he practices it. He is working on doing handstands right now and does so well! He is an excellent reader. He had his sight words for the year (probably over 50 of them) passed off by month 3 of Kindergarten. He has picked up math super quick and I am so lucky to have such bright kids. It makes my life a little easier:) He did so well for having zoom Kindergarten for almost a month. He did near 3 hour calls everyday and he was able to sit and focus and do his assignments. He listened and not once did I have to get after him. He is a good little guy who just wants to make good choices. How did I get so lucky? Nate has his special seat on the couch he ALWAYS sits in. He doesn’t know how to blow his nose yet. Ha! He loves that he is big enough to sleep on the top bunk. He was happy to upgrade his bike in the spring to a 16 inch. He was sooooo nervous (he is our nervous kid), but once he tries things he masters them quickly. He also learned to swim this year. He HATED the feeling of no floaties. Last year he jumped in without one and it took a second for me to notice and we pulled him out. He was just fine, as it was about 3 seconds, but I think it terrified him just enough. He would scream and scream when we practiced. All of a sudden a switch went off and he took off! He loved it! He was swimming across our community pool in no time and going of the diving board at aunt Grace’s. It’ll be fun to see where that little 5 year old gets next summer! Nato love card games. Like LOVES them. He is always pulling 5 crowns, Cover your Assests, Cover your Kingdom, Uno, War, you name it. He is so good at them too! He knows more about the rules in some of those games than I do. He loves them! Nathan has the biggest grin and has this excited personality that we just need in this house. He is chill and calm and all things happy. You know when he is tired, because then he is not!!! We are so lucky to have that little man in our family. 5 is a fun age and it is fun to see his little personality blossoming!