Sebastain's 5th birthday

Dear Sebastian,

Five years have past and I certainly can not believe that you area big boy. Again, I remember when you were born and the state in which you arrived. You have always been a very strong child and continue to be. I am hoping this will carry with you throughout your life and into adulthood. I want you to have all the confidence in the world that you can do anything that you set your mind to do.

You are very good at story telling and often tell us of your imaginary Dad. I’m not sure how this person came into your imagination, but you seem to bring him up at certain moments. You say, that you played games or had toys at your Dad’s house.  We would ask you how your Dad is doing and you said he died. I’m guessing with the recent death’s in our family (Great-Grandpa Durkee, Great-Grandma Barber and my mother Cathy) that you have also included him as well. It  does make for a great laugh for all of us but you are so serious when you mention him. You have what I call the stone face, you can say something whether it is truthful or not with a straight stone face. You do no waiver. I’m thinking you might make a great lawyer or businessman.

You still have issues controlling yourself. You get upset when you haven’t eaten (low blood sugar) and we guess that it also has to do with your sugar intake as well. You definitely have a sweet tooth and love candy, chocolate, yogurt and well….Sugar. If you don’t seem to get your fix then you get very upset. You used to throw fits, but we don’t allow that any more. We either put you in your room until you can calm down or you go to you room yourself. Occasionally we will have to put your “ink” to sleep.  This is was a song that Braedon would sing saying something like rocking his ink to sleep.  And well your father just adapted that to putting your ink to sleep.  He basically holds you until you fall asleep but these days its really until you calm down.  You generally don’t take naps but every once and a while you need one –heck who doesn’t?

You are very smart when you want to be but very stubborn. I want you to tell me that you know things…letters, number and etc. but you don’t want to tell me when I want to know it. Typically you will tell me when you are talking about something else. So I keep trying to teach you things and hope that it will somehow sink in. I think we are in for an up hill battle as far as teacher-student is considered but we will see.

You sometimes get along well with your siblings but you tend to be the instigator of the fights.  You really know how to push their buttons and make them upset. At times you are so good at it that you don’t even have to say anything.

But to the opposite, you are the most loving and cuddly one. You always want to make forts and snuggle up…something I loved as a child and still love to do. So when you ask me, I try to accommodate you whenever I can.

You do like when we read books, right now you really like the little critter books but will listen to some of the stuff we read to Braedon and Jillian. I’m teaching you to read but it isn’t going as well as I would like for it to happen but I guess just continuing to read to you as much as possible that again it will sink in somehow.

Your favorite things:

Color: green, froggy blanket, transformers video game—which you are very very good at and I can tell that you will be a very good video gamer like your father, you love butter—forget what its on—you’ll eat it right off of it, you like transformers, legos, cars 2 cars/things related, and love to be naked just like your brother.

For your birthday we got you 18 matchbox army vehicles because you play army video games. You wanted to see the vehicles and play with them yourself. You asked for a dinosaur cake this year and I did my best. :) 

There are times when you wake up at the crack of dawn again but sometimes your sister beats you to that….it must be an age thing.

You are still learning how to put your clothes on..you give us such a hard time but you can certainly do it when you want to. Your shoes, we got you Velcro shoes so you can easily do that but you “seem” to not want to do it. One day you will.

You used to never want to pick up your toys but now you seem to be a leader. You are still a fundy bundy (another adaptation from the silly symphonies funny little bunnies cartoon). This means you still do and say things that make us laugh.

Overall you are a very smart, loved and smart boy…we can’t wait to see what the next year will bring to us.

We love you very much,

Mom and Dad