We celebrated his birthday a couple weeks ago with a fun Art Party. He invited 6 of his friends along with his brother to do a painting party at Color Me Mine. What a wonderful party idea. The Color Me Mine Studio in Snoqualmie did such a nice job. They have a separate little party area with a long table. Their staff was so friendly and helped the kids the entire time with their creations. Each kiddo got to pick one item to paint. It was such a calm party too because everyone was enthralled in their project. Plus what a nice favor to take home! After painting, we enjoyed the beautiful, creative and delicious cake made by Grampa.
Earlier in the day we had family over to enjoy lunch and Nathan got to open his presents. It was a really nice, low key, fun day.
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| Amazing cake made by Grampa! |
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| Laila joined the party too! |
For Nathan's actual birthday on May 10, we went out to dinner as a family to Chipotle and then enjoyed some Baskin Robbins ice cream.
Nathan's favorite gifts this year were Zoobs (building set), Legos (of course), a make your own comic book set, a build your own birdhouse set, Pokemon cards, and a movie gift card. He's definitely much more into gifts that allow him to be creative or that involve art which is fun.
Here are aspects about Nathan at 7 years old we don't want to forget:
- He is an extremely creative kid: always building things, drawing, making things, setting up forts or imaginary situations, etc.
- He has a true love for learning and enjoys school. He's constantly bringing things home from school or talking about things at school that's he loving learning about
- Nathan plays well with his brother--involves him in his plans or imaginary scenarios, shows him how to do things and appreciates his companionship (although there are lots of conflicting times too ;))
- Nathan can fully read now! He's getting more into chapter books such as Magic Treehouse, Magic School Bus, Andrew Lost, etc. and he still likes being read to. Lately we've been reading James and the Giant Peach and Harry Potter
- Nathan constantly says he wants to be a scientist when he grows up. We wouldn't be surprised. He loves all things science: animals, plants, weather, earth, experiments, etc. And he has an uncanny memory--he retains tons of information and loves to teach us what he knows.
- We are definitely at the age where Nathan is sometimes crafty and tricky and experimenting with lying. So we as parents are at a new stage of trying to navigate discipline and character development in a slightly different way than when our kids were little. It's definitely not terrible and our kids are really good in general, but we're definitely more in the character building territory of parenting now.
- It's fun to see Nathan get more coordinated and active. He's swimming more on his own, loves riding his bike all over, improved a lot this past season in skiing and is getting more into sports such as soccer and flag football. And man that boy is fast!
- Luckily even though he is now 7, he still loves and appreciates lots of snuggle time. In his classroom presentation on family day this year, he said his family is a superhero family because we like to snuggle. Melts my heart that that is so important to him and stands out to him.
- He has started learning the piano! He started lessons a couple months ago and it's been fun to watch him learn yet another skill. It's so nice to have regular music playing in the house too.
- Nathan is still very social and his friends are very important to him. We're grateful he has some really kind, thoughtful, and interesting friends at school. They build each other up and like to just have fun and play at recess.
- One of the things I love most about Nathan is he is utterly comfortable in his own skin. He has great self awareness and likes just being who he is. Even if other kids tease him, he just laughs it off and doesn't let it get to him. Although I know it will be challenging in the adolescent years, I pray he can keep a lot of this trait as he gets older.
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