Our Four-Year-Old

Sweet Jacky-boy, you’re four!!  You’ve been so excited about turning four-telling everyone that you talk to that you’re having a football party and turning four.  I hope the year lives up to your excitement about it!You’ve got the four fingers down, and your silly faces, too!There are so many things I love about you and so many of your mannerisms and sayings that I could just eat up.  One of my most favorite-you are such a cuddle bug!  You ask us to cuddle with you or sit with you all the time, and you always grant our requests, too.  When I drop you off at school, you always give me a hug at your door and then a kiss and a kiss on the cheek-in that order.  I adore this.You are such a curious little one.  You ask why about pretty much everything, want to know how things work (and usually try to figure it out yourself), and are in to doing ‘experiments’.  This means you ask me to blend a bunch of things up with you so you can see how they blend.  You and your brother love it, and get the biggest smiles (and shouts of excitement!) when we press the blend button.You’ve consistently been getting really great reports from Mrs. Rachel at school.  She says you happily participate, have a great memory/recall, and that you’re a great helper.  There was a period when you got on red a few days in a row for not keeping your hands to yourself, but Mrs. Rachel emailed me (you were SO UPSET about that!) and we talked about it, and you’ve been on green and getting treasure box ever since!You are silly.  Silly, silly, silly!!  You make faces, sing silly songs, do silly things to make Sam laugh (sometimes getting your self into trouble!), and are just overall a very happy boy.  Daddy and I are so thankful!You love your brother dearly and are mostly so good to him.  You’ll read him books, get things for him, tell me what (you think) he needs, and you’re protective of him.  I love that you guys are already best friends and I pray that this always continues.  BUT, you are also rough with him!  We know you just want to wrestle with him and play, but we have to tell you pretty much hourly to be gentle or to keep your hands to yourself.  One day he’ll be big enough, and daddy and I kinda think he’s going to really get you!!  Jacky-boy, we love you dearly.  More than words can say.  One of my many prayers for you is that when the time comes, a long, LONG time from now, that God would bless you and your wife with children so you’ll be able to feel and understand the way daddy and I love you.  (By the way, you told us that you never wanted to leave us and that when you got married, you guys would live in our house still.  I asked if you thought your wife would like that, and you said that yes, she would! :)  You bring so much joy to our family each day, and you’re our most favorite four-year-old!  It’s going to be an amazing year, I just know it!
We love you, sweet boy!
Daddy and Mommy