June 2014

So I will admit, I am obviously not very good at writing on this thing for you b/c its been over a year.  I should and I have no excuse.  You are 6 years old and done with Kindergarten.  You currently do not like school and somedays we have to drag you there.  The second you don't like something, you start rubbing your eyes and saying that you are tired.  If I raise my voice, your new thing is "you got mad at me and hurt my feelings".... :)

I kept you home with me on Tuesday and Thursdays.  I had great intention of reading to you, doing "lessons" and learning but you wanted nothing to do with it.  I don't know how to get you to read, or do anything you don't want to do.  Ya, I know, I am not doing very good.  I let you get away with alot and I know that someday I am going to pay for it....I think.  But you are a Mommy's boy and you are just so stinking cute and snugly and know how to get me.  Your never naughty.....Its just that you don't like to do things.  You WANT to be HOME.  You love playing with your cars, and I am pretty sure we have over 2000 and yet you always say you want a new one b/c its one you don't have....

On our last day of Kindergarten at home together, it was my last day with you home....forever.  Next year you are in 1st grade and you have no choice but go every single day Luke.  Mom doesn't make that rule. :)
We went out for lunch downtown to Buffalo Wild wings, and rode bikes, and swam at greg and debs pool and we even went to the park for awhile.  It was really sad and fun for me to think that these days will be gone forever.  We visited dad at his new building and you love watching all the presses making all the parts.

You had a good year.  You are reading alittle bit but again, you don't like it.  I have a feeling that school is going to be a challenge for you and us, but who knows, maybe you are just pulling it with us and at school you do great!  Time will tell.

You are definitely the comedian in the house.  You are always trying to make us laugh with your facial expressions and jokes, little sayings, and your giggle is so contagious you can't help but laugh with you.  Your diet consists of french toast sticks, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, and we can get you to eat spaghetti.  Wow, just reading this to myself makes me realize that I am creating you to a life of entitlement and I need to get a grip.....But I guess its b/c I don't want to make those issues an ISSUE.  I want to pick and choose my battles and in the long run, will you always eat the same thing, probably not.  If it is a problem with attitude or behavior issue, then I will have a problem.  But you are really a good kid.  My kids are easy to discipline b/c we are all so sensitive.  I already know that if I want to discipline you down the road, I just need to do one thing: Take the ipad away.

I limit your time on it, but I don't know what it is with boys!!! They love games!!! Karlie could care less about them and its all you think about sometimes.

This year you had your first girlfriend.  While laying in bed we were talking about the end of the world and that Jesus was going to come back agian and you asked when?  I said we don't know.  You said 'I will be married with my perfect wife."  Right then I told him that there is no such thing as a perfect wife, and then you said you already knew who it was!!!! Heather Dejonge.  Not in your class but across the hall from you.

About a month later, you had a new girl and you even knew her phone number by MEMORY!!!!  We were in the YMCA parking lot and you asked if "Katie Koop" could come over.  Then you began to tell me her phone number.  Sure enough, I called it and you were right!!!  Later in the school year, you told Carrie Roelofs that you had a crush on her and that you wanted to kiss her!!!  I could die!!! You love girls already and have talked about your wife, girl friends.....kissing!!!
Oh my!!!

Love you so much luke.  Your moms little buddy!!!  I love you more than you will ever know. :)