Current Favorites

I thought I would dedicate a blog post to Henry's current favorites. As expected, his favorites can fluctuate greatly as time goes by, but here are his current faves:

Breakfast, which he gets to pick himself:

• Cereal, likes every kind he has ever tried
  
• Oatmeal with blueberries
  

Favorite beverages:

• Milk, always the number one choice
• Lemonade
• Root Beer (only allowed as a special treat)
• Water
  

Favorite lunchbox items:

• Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich
• Bell pepper slices (red and orange this week)
• Clementine oranges

Favorite television programs:

• Curious George
• Super Why!
• Arthur
• Go Diego, Go
• Syd the Science Guy

Favorite outdoor activities:

• Basketball
• Hockey, Baseball, Football, Soccer, Golf (and any other sport you can think of)
  
• Climbing
• Sandbox

Favorite games:

• Sorry
• Uno
• Chutes and Ladders
• War (card game)

Favorite books:

• Curious George
• Berenstein Bears
• Joke books

Favorite restaurants:

• Gringo's
• Sweet Tomatoes

Favorite treats:

• Root beer floats
• Starburst candy
• Bubble gum

Favorite phrases:

• Guess what?
• Mommy?

Favorite things to draw:

• Happy faces of his family
• Houses damaged by Hurricane Ike
• Abstract art
  

A trip to the eye doctor

Okay, last post for today...

Yesterday, Henry and I had our annual eye exams. Last year, the doctor felt that Henry might need glasses before kindergarten due to some astigmatism. After the exam, she felt that his astigmatism had improved and that he did not need glasses afterall. Yippee. She was very impressed with Henry and kept asking me about having him tested for GT (gifted and talented). Uh, he's not even in kindergarten yet. It was nice to hear, though.

He did very well. Got a bit silly at times and kept repeating the same letter over and over and tried to take over and give the exam when it was my turn (Mommy, look up there and tell me what you see. Now cover your eye and tell me what you see.) Fortunately, the doctor was quite patient with him. He got to do the eye test with the clicker but refused to do the one where you get a puff of air in the eye.

He did NOT like getting the drops in his eyes and cried the first round right out. However, after he realized that it didn't hurt, he was pretty cooperative about having the second round put in. And we celebrated the successful visit to the eye doctor with...what else...a root beer float!

Welcome aboard....

Welcome!

I've been wanting to do this for a while so I decided that today was the day...the day my baby turns 5. I wish I could backfill the last five years of Henry's story, but if I waited until that happened, then I'd be stuck and never able to go forward. So instead, as things occur to me, I'll try to include the history as I go.

So last night, we made a big deal about the fact that Henry would turn 5 today, August 6. This is the first year that he seems to really have a concept of that. So what does he want to know? "When Mama? When will I turn 5?" It was enough to send me to my stash of official papers. Unfortunately, nothing in them indicates the exact time he was born. To answer his curiosity, I simply told him that it would happen to him while he slept.

This morning, after he came and crawled into bed with me, I asked him how it felt to be 5. His answer: "I still feel like Henry. And I didn't get any bigger."

Oh, and as far as the blog's name "and always very curious", some of you might recognize that as a line from Curious George. It is usually on the first page of all of the stories, and is the tagline to describe him: "George was a good little monkey, and always very curious." Of course, his curiosity always get him into a pickle, but he always comes out on top. Curious George has been the favorite of my little monkey for as long as I can remember. So I thought it an appropriate name for the chronicles of Henry.

I won the Mickey 200

October 8, 2007
We just got back from our Disney Cruise. You guys stayed on to go to some of the parks. You had a great time – for some reason you are really enchanted with Chip & Dale now. You had fun meeting the characters and being with your cousins. You are quit the traveler and fall into the routine very quickly. You would say “are we going to the show after dinner”. You said so many funny things I can’t even remember. We went to St. Marten and shopped. Then we stopped at St. Thomas but you, me, your Mom, Nana and Papa took the Ferry to Trunk Bay in St. John. It is one of the 10 most beautiful beaches in the world. We played in the water and the sand. Then on Friday, we went to Castaway Cay in the Bahamas, again we just played in the water and sand. It was a really fun trip. You guys will be home tomorrow – you stayed and went to Universal Studios and got to go to a character dinner where you got to meet Curious George (you call him Monkey George) your Mom said you loved it – Nana had bought you a t-shirt with a monkey to wear. On the cruise, they had the Mickey 200, your Mom made a car out of a potato and a carrot and then it raced the other cars (there were 15). You guys won first place and you got a ribbon which you wore the rest of the trip – you kept saying you won the Piston Cup like in the movie “Cars”. You watched your first PG movie – Game Plan was showing on the ship. It was good and you liked it because it was about football.

Weekend Recap

Monday, August 6, 2007
You are 4 – we are going to Chuck E Cheese tonight. That is what you picked. You did not get to go to Jacks – he was very sick and running a fever. So on Friday night we ate at Potbellys and went to a comets game and you caught a t-shirt for a new Football team. You love getting these t-shirts and you ended up wearing it to bed. Saturday, you, me, your mom, Aunt Nada and Jane Red went for dinner at Correllis. You had to have cannoli because Curious George had some in a show you watched. You liked it OK. Then on Sunday we went and you and mom had pictures taken at Oyster Creek park and in front of the City Hall in Sugar Land. You rode your bike with the training wheels and really for the first time you seemed to get the concept of pedaling. You are really proud of yourself for figuring it out. I am proud of you also. On Saturday, we took a nap together – you like to “spend the night” with someone and on the weekends we will let you every now and then. You are fascinated by the brands of cars right now and want to know what all the logos mean. You are so funny you can identify a Ford, a Toyota (that is actually what started it – the Comets play at Toyota center and you started recognizing the logo – it was really amazing because we never talked about it; you just recognized it), Lexus, Honda, Chrysler. We are trying to teach you Mitsubishi but it is hard for you to say. So last night you saw one and you told your Mom – lets talk about that one later. You are 39.5 inches tall and weigh 33.5 pounds.