Davey is FIVE!!

Davey is FIVE!! This dude loves everything about growing up and getting bigger, and was so excited to "level up" on his birthday. He is eager about what the future holds, and is always asking when he'll be able to start doing things like ride roller coasters, drive cars and shoot real guns. He was a little disappointed when I told him that turning 5 wasn't an automatic promotion to kindergarten, and that he would still have to finish his preschool year and summer break before that day arrived. 

Loving Davey is easy. He is smart, social, passionate, and funny (a list of some of his moments from recent history is below). When he cares about something, he loves it to the ends of the earth and will pour himself into it without reservation. Some things that currently fall into this category are dinosaurs, Pokemon, having epic battles with his collection of guys and weapons, playing video games with Dave, and doing anything with Sophie. 

Parenting Davey is hard. We have power struggles daily. He lives to make Charlie miserable, although that has just recently started to improve. He can be overly emotional, obsessive, and defiant, but out of all our kids he is also the first to admit fault, the quickest to show remorse, and the best at offering apologies. He really does have a good heart, and when he's not driving us bonkers, he is one awesome kid. We love you Davey!!

Davey at Five

• I don't have his stats yet because his well child visit is not until May (covid delayed it last year and now we might be stuck in a late schedule for the rest of time). Right now he's wearing 5T clothes and size 12 shoes.
• Davey believes that if he says something enough times, it will eventually come true. Whether it's dinosaurs really being alive, or us taking him to Chuck E Cheese, he will not stop talking about it until it happens.
• He is a food thief, although his target items are completely different than Sophie's. While she would sneak fruit snacks or candy, I often find him in the fridge grabbing strawberries, grapes, apples or carrots. Noodles are his most favorite food, although they have recently been joined by pepperoni pizza. He still will not eat bread (sandwiches included) or cheese.
• His favorite color is still blue, followed by purple because it's close to blue. There used to be a fight between Davey and Sophie every morning over the blue cereal bowl, so one day I bought a second one. To my surprise, as soon there were two blue bowls, Sophie went back to using her purple one, admitting she only was competing for the blue one to make Davey mad. Oh kids.
• If he could have any job when he grows up it would be to rescue dinosaurs for Jurassic World. 
• He still sleeps with Yellow, his blanket, every night.
• Preschool has worked some miracles in that he now can recognize all his letters and what sound they make. We will start reading practice with him this summer, as he is very eager to follow in Sophie's footsteps.
• He is an early riser and we've made it part of his job chart to stay in his room until 7 am on weekdays and 7:30 on weekends, but even that doesn't happen all the time.
• He is very social and has lots of friends. He does not like to play alone and begs every day to have someone come over, but I can only handle that about once a week. His favorite toys to play with are his dinosaurs, Legos, Hot Wheels, and bad guys. 

Since his birthday is on St. Patrick's Day it's tradition to have green pancakes for breakfast

Although he would have loved to have a friend party, things are still a little weird with covid right now so we just celebrated with family. On his birthday we did presents in the morning, Chuck E Cheese in the afternoon, pasta for dinner, and then cake. 

All but two of his gifts were dinosaur themed - it's what he loves the most!!

There was a random snow storm on his birthday. I saw it in the forecast, but wasn't expecting to actually wake up to anything, but blizzard-like conditions brought 6" that morning!

Davey requested donuts instead of a cake. Dave had to go out in the storm to get them and actually got stuck on his way home. I was so confused when I came out from putting Griffin to nap and found a wet box of donuts on the counter, but no Dave. His car had gotten high centered on snow buildup in the alley and he had to go back with a shovel to dig it out!

I did my best to make the donuts look like dinosaurs

I can't be 100% sure what he wished for, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was for a pet T-Rex

Some Davey moments from the last few months:

• Me: What do you want to do for the letter S for Letter Group tomorrow?
  Davey: We should smash them
  Me: Do you think your friends would like that??
  Davey: Probably not, but it does start with S so let's go ahead an do it anyway.
• Davey: When do people die?
  Me: Everyone dies at different times.
  Davey: I think you'll die soon.
• When told we were having beef for dinner: Ughhh, I hate cow chicken.
• Davey to Charlie: If you like dried apples, you should try sweaty apples sometime. They're really good!
• As we walk into church and pass an obese man: Sophie, Sophie! You have got to see how fat this guy is! (he got a spanking and a talk for that one)
• We told everyone they could have their favorite flavor of ice cream since they ate a good dinner and Davey said, "Yes! Woodchips!" (He meant mint chocolate chip).
• Charlie was sobbing that he couldn't find his ball anywhere, while Davey denied any involvement. He did mention though, that he thought he saw a ghost hide it behind the laundry room door.
• Said to me one day while I was putting away laundry: You sure don't want to be a chicken because one day the farmer will come out and you'll be the slowest to run away so he'll pick you to eat for lunch. 

Videos from Davey's 5th Birthday