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Jack @ 5

• favorite color: blue
• favorite animal: buffalo or sperm whale
• favorite movie: Oceans
• favorite food: mac n cheese
• favorite book: Sea Creatures
• favorite song: Book of Mormon Stories
• favorite ice cream flavor: strawberry
• favorite restaurant: Red Robin
• favorite cereal: frosted mini wheat's
• favorite sport: baseball
• favorite cartoon: dinosaur train
• favorite game: Sorry

I couldn't have asked for a better kid for my first. Jack is truly a joy to have around. He is my little helper around the house. He always picks up his toys before moving on to another activity and helps me with chores around the house. He is also a great playmate for his sister (when they aren't fighting). Jack can't wait for Kate to wake up from her nap so he has a buddy. And Kate adores her brother, wanting to copy everything he does. She cried for 20 minutes yesterday after we dropped Jack at his first day of preschool. She was lost without her older brother.

I always receive compliments on Jack's behavior at church and school which makes me feel like we've done something right b/c he is not always on his best behavior at home, esp when it involves teasing his sister. He still struggles with eating a meal at a normal pace, but is not a picky eater. He loves mac and cheese, quinoa, hard boiled eggs, edamame, cucumbers, orange peppers, blueberries, milk, beef stew, and ice cream (wouldn't be a Papa if he didn't). He is a very good eater. Just worry about him when he goes to school and has to eat lunch within a set time frame. He'll probably be the only kid left in the lunch room while all the others have gone out to the playground.

He loves to have dance parties in the living room, color pictures of airplanes and sharks, and hang out with his dad. He got a new bike for his birthday and wants to ride in races just like his dad. Or play baseball like his dad. He is all boy and we love him. I am blessed to be his mother.