A Crowning Event!

Dear Calvin: Happy Birthday!

You are now 4. You are a big boy. You used to show how old you were with 3 fingers, now you are an expert at showing it with 4 fingers. You have not been shy about telling people when your birthday was and how old you were turning. You even struck up a conversation with the fabric cutter when we bought your crown material and told her this. By the way you chose the lizard material on the inside of your crown. Your mom found the pattern to this cute keepsake here.

She, always has and always will love your beaming smile and bright, blue eyes.


Here are a few factoids about your life right now:

• Your stated favorite food is bacon and shrimp. This is after your aunt Nedda fed you such food and you then denounced broccoli as your favorite food and replaced with this number.
• A few times I have caught you reading Calvin and Hobbes. You weren't named after that Calvin but you are remarkably similar to him :) You love to prowl around on all fours like you ARE a tiger and are quite good at it. Fast too.

• One of the gifts your mom and dad got your for your birthday was Woody and Buzz bed sheets. You love Woody and Buzz.

• Your favorite toy is a sword. You are always watching out for bad guys. Often we are supposed to be the bad guys while you are Spiderman or Batman or Robin with his boomer-hang, or a Knight saving the Princess from the Dragon. You always know which pants and shorts have a sword pocket to put the sword into, and if that fails, it can always tuck in the neck of your shirt. Once, when you made a noodle necklace, you were delighted to discover that it also could be used to hold your sword.
• 
• You love to run in the sand and play at the beach with such an enthusiasm that it is a delight to watch your play at work.

• Once you ate 2 bites out of a bunch of strawberries and then lined them up neatly along the table as you ate them.

• In Primary at church, you are very good at answering questions and are always eager to participate. You know that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and that we can be baptized when we are 8 years old, among many other things.

This is but a small sampling of your current life, but oh we love you SO much and always will!!!