No one under FOUR in this house anymore!

It appears we have reached another milestone in our house! Our youngest is 4! We celebrated Nathan's 4th birthday yesterday with a few of his friends. He loved every minute of it! He is really getting into super heroes now (thanks to the Lego Super Heroes video game he's been playing with Brian) and his Lego Spiderman birthday was a lot of fun! He's growing up so much (I love it when he uses big words like "unfortunately", so cute!) and it's pretty special to see his relationship with Lynsey in particular grow. Today when we picked Lynsey up from school, we had just come from his 4 year well check at the doctor's office where he had to have two shots (which he was NOT happy about, he knew they were coming and he was really grumpy for the whole visit because of it, and he cried for a while after as well). He had his very special blue blankie with him to help him feel better. When Lynsey got in the van, she said something about feeling too hot, which Nathan misunderstood as her feeling cold somehow, so he offered her his blue blankie! It was so cute! I told Lynsey if she ever doubted whether or not he loved her, then she just needed to think back to this moment where he offered her his most special possession in the whole world!

Lynsey is still going strong on swim team, she is getting faster every day! I think sometimes she tries a bit too hard to pass the other kids to get to the front of the line, but It's not really a problem (yet) I don't think. I don't mind if she uses passing other kids as a bit of motivation to work harder, I just want her to still be listening to the teacher's instructions while she is doing it.

Adam has been having a bit of a hard time the last few weeks again, just another bump in the road, I guess. One interesting thing is how much he is trying to use complete sentences these days. They are working on appropriate sentences at school, and it's like it just clicked with him last week. He was in the dentist chair (which over all went a lot smoother than last time, so I'm calling it a success!) and he was starting to get a bit upset about the dentist being in his mouth, so he was asking, "Can we get out of the chair? Can we open the door?" I felt a bit bad for him, here he was asking properly to get out of the chair but we just couldn't allow it! He's doing it at home a lot, too, although it still doesn't sound like he's asking spontaneous questions. It's a step in the right direction for sure, but I long for the day where I feel like his questions aren't scripted anymore. Maybe the extra stress we are seeing from him is a byproduct of him taking a step forward in his learning, we've seen that in the past. Fingers crossed!