P. @ 4 years old

P. is our imaginative, super-silly 4 year old!

• Is our fix-it/worker-man--always using his tools to fix and build and organizes them into his shed or workshop--he has turned one wall of our living room into his workshop at the moment with the play kitchen as his tool bench and then all of his tools and tractors parked to the side of it. While lots of his play is pretend, he takes it VERY seriously and believes he's a real worker-man.
• Can be a bit emotional, a perfectionist, and hard on himself...this has seemed to be a new phase right now--I'm not loving it, because I want him to know that he's one awesome kid. 
• Basketball is is favorite sport--we signed him up for a little rookies course through a rec center and thought it would be the perfect thing, because he's said he's wanted to play basketball for years, as we've watch N. play soccer. Well, he melted and melted because he couldn't dribble to proper way with his fingertips, because he couldn't do jumping jacks, and couldn't quite make a hoop--most of the other kids were just having fun and couldn't do it either, but it's a course for 3 & 4 year olds just teaching them basics. He was doing better than the majority too. He also missed one class because he was sick and another because we were out of town, so maybe we'll try again next summer. His last class he did better--when S. told him to pretend that when he hit the net, he made a hoop, and for some reason that did the trick, and he had a great time.
• He constantly says he's not P., but "I'm papa with a mustache." My dad, his papa, has a mustache, and he wants to be just like him, in fact most of the time he says he is him and that there are two papas. Papa loves basketball, has lots of trucks for work and tools...a few weeks ago, P. got to hang out with papa in the building behind my family's house, where he got to watch papa load the box truck, take a ride in his big white truck, the box truck, and on his tractor.  It totally made P.'s day.
• Doesn't like to draw or write...he gets easily frustrated when he attempts, we've tried to be super encouraging, but he's so hard on himself. Good luck to his future teachers!
• Loves playing with his brothers--him and N. share a room, and wake up early to play legos and read books!
• Is becoming more of a picky pants with food--but his faves are mac n cheese, chicken nuggets, strawberries, meat & cheese sandwiches, chocolate chex, waffles with cream cheese, and anything chocolate
• Fave tv shows--team umizoomi, paw patrol; fave movies--disney cars and planes
• Loves giving E. kisses on his head, but doesn't love when E. destroys his creations
• Loves his aunts, uncles, and cousins, and grandmas and grandpas
• likes to give S. "squishy" hugs when he leaves for work--basically he squeezes your cheeks and gets close to your face