John Thomas and the boys at the sitter have really been excited about super heroes for the last few months. More recently, John Thomas has been really excited about dressing up like super heroes. He loves his Spider-Man and Iron Man pyjamas, and now likes to put together whatever he can, to dress up as other super heroes.
We heard about Free Comic Book Day on the radio, and decided we should all go, especially when we heard members of the 501st Legion would be there at The Comic Book Shoppe. When we arrived, they were already outside.
In February our friends from Vermont came up for a visit and we met to take in Winterlude. John Thomas wasn't up for the long skate, so we brought the stroller and took turns pushing him on the ice. He enjoyed the traditional BeaverTail and took in some art.
In April we headed to Vermont to celebrate Easter with our friends. We all had a great time. There were multiple Easter related hunts, lots of play on the trampoline, a campfire with marshmallows, and we even climbed a mountain.
John Thomas has continued to work on his letters. He now recognizes letters in his name, and will remark when he sees a simple sign, "Hey, that letter is in my name!" He was writing his name as JOOTH for a month or two, but is starting to realize there are more letters to John Thomas and sometimes now writes ten letters with some combination of Js, Os, Ts and Hs.
In the last week or so he has started riding the smaller of his two wheeler bicycles without training wheels. He has a little difficulty starting, but is fine once he gets going. Unfortunately we haven't caught any pictures of him in action yet. John Thomas' skating has continued to improve, particularly since he was able to articulate that his skates were being tied too tight.
There was a little performance in John Thomas' class on Friday for Mother's Day. The children sung a couple of songs, and adorned their mother's with multiple gifts.
It's been a great few months. We're all looking forward to a wonderful summer together.
Until recently, John Thomas did not have much interest or ability to draw much of anything. This past month, we've seen him start to write some of the letters in his name, and some rudimentary stick figures.
John Thomas finished the fall session of skating lessons in December, and we put him in the following session. He can glide on the ice occasionally, but only shows his speed when sufficiently motivated.
Christmas was very exciting this year. It was his first year to be excited about Santa. Last year he was frightened of Santa, and asked Mom and Dad to tell him not to come. This year, shortly after we started decorating for Christmas, he asked Mommy to call Santa right away to make sure he would come. We met Santa at the mall the first day he arrived. John Thomas seemed the most excited kid there. He was jumping up and down as soon as Santa arrived, and moved to hug him right away.
For New Years Eve, we had a few friends and their kids over for a little party. Amazingly, everyone managed to stay awake until midnight.
Overall, it's been a pretty good month or so. Knock on wood that the rest of winter will continue on this way.
Halloween went very well. There was a small party at school during the day on Friday the 30th that Mommy attended. John Thomas dressed as SpiderMan as planned, and Mommy was Venom.
This year we had a lot of fun putting up decorations for Halloween, and there was a lot of talk about the skulls and skeletons. When it was time to take them down, John Thomas was told that we needed to do so in order to put up Christmas decorations. So our Christmas tree was up and decorated quite early in November.
Again this year we had multiple celebrations for John Thomas' birthday. His birthday fell on a Thursday this year, we dined out at Harvey's for hamburgers and had a couple of the neighbours over for cupcake dessert, along with Uncle Richard who was in town.
The Sunday following we had family and some friends over for the party. Carrot cake and cupcakes were had for dessert.
We attended the Santa Clause parade the same weekend. Bringing chairs for the little ones and a little more experience made this year even more enjoyable than last.
John Thomas came down with bronchitis last week, and has spent a lot of time keeping busy with indoor activities. One was painting a couple of canvases to hang in the house, another was Christmas ornaments, and another was Gingerbread Men Cookies. He particularly liked to decorate them using each of the four colours Mommy provided for him.
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