Happy Birthday THOMAS!!!

Thomas is turning 5 today.
He missed the cut off mark for going to kindergarten, so he get another year at the Early Learing Center.
He is so bright and so smart.
I never know what makes his little mind work.

Right now his favorite things are:
 playing on the computer - he loves the sites Playhouse Disney, and PBS kids. They have all his favorite caracters on them, Handy Manny, Chuggington, Imagination Movers and Mickey Mouse, and on PBS kids he loves Super Why, Dinosaur Train, and Clifford.

learning sign language - I turned on a baby see and sign video one day (more for Grayson - cuz he isn't talking yet -than for Thomas) and Thomas LOVED it.  He makes me play if for hours at a time, several days a week.  He has all the signs memorized, and he makes me and daddy do the sign, and he guesses what it is.  He can do a few of them (his hand coordination isn't the best), but he would rather make us do it LOL

and anything to do with playing outside (or in the garage).

right now his favorite things to talk about are The Sky - he always has to see if there are any clouds in the sky, and then he tells me what they are shaped like (usually it's a big bear).  On really cloudy days he will say "where is the sky?" because he can't see any blue.
he also likes to talk about playing in the mud - which is not allowed.  I built the boys a sandbox, and they would still rather dig up our yard and track mud all over the place.
and when we get together with family, he tells me all about the fun things he has done with Grandpa Anderson, and how pretty Grandma Anderson is, and how she will get him a juice box, and he also mentions his newest cousin Rusty - he tells me that he shouldn't sit on him, because that would make him sad and he would cry - and i just smile and say yes, we don't sit on babies.

Grayson is getting bigger by the day too.  The baby sign language is working for him as well - he will sign Milk, More, and All done.  He has also learned how to nod yes.  and last night he signed Bath, and he trys to say Bath too.  He has also sorta said Ball, and More.   He has also decided that he is big enough for turns on the computer too.  He climbs up into the chair and pulls it up to the desk, then slides out the keyboard and stratiegically puts one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard.  Good thing our screen saver comes on 2 mintues after we stop using the computer, and goes back to the main screen which requires the password to get back in, or he would really reak havoc on there.

He and Thomas are getting along much better.  Grayson just adores his big brother.  And still does everything he sees Thomas doing.