Todd is Five (Month 5)

AGE 5, MONTH 5
DEC 21 (2019) – JAN 20 (2020)

TODD SAID…

• “Never mind”
• He said he wanted to paint on our walls so he could train to be a worker building houses
• “What? Are you out of your mind?” quoting the ‘funny kid show’ (i.e., YouTube videos of funny/painful mishaps)

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

• Favorite shows: Mighty Pups, Secret Life of Pets 2
• Todd drew pictures of Eric and a chicken (separate pictures!) with the Magnadoodle, and he wrote “Spiderman to the” before getting upset that he ran out of room to write more letters (12/21)
• Drawing on his magnadoodle or on paper
• He’s initiating writing/drawing so much more (i.e., he made a numbered Christmas list writing the words Minecraft boots, Hot Wheels, ball and coat)
• He likes to sign his name “Toddeo”
• He made a painting & wanted to put it up in his room
• Setting up his Lego “Minecraft City”
• Todd & Eric worked & played outside during a snowstorm (1/15)
• Building with Legos (our own police headquarters)
• Reading kinder level “Bob” books with just a little help (i.e., Sight Words, First Stories)

CHRISTMAS 2019

• See post, “Christmas 2019“
• We drove to Bend, OR on 12/22 & drove home on 12/28

NEW YEARS DAY

• We visited our rental house & met our renter; then we visited Eric’s parents (Todd’s Grammie & Granddad), brother (Jeff), and Todd’s cousins (Kylie & Adam)
• See post, “New Year’s Day 2020“

KINDERGARTEN & FUN ACTIVITIES

• Todd started going to kindergarten full days instead of half days (1/06)
• Open gym @ Apple Valley Gymnastics (1x)
• 1st time being able to get on the rope swing by himself

SKIING – MISSION RIDGE

• See post, “Ski Videos (Age 5, Month 5)“
• 1st time night skiing (1/2)
• Not including night skiing, the 3 of us skied together 8x
• We did runs on chairs 1 & 4
• Todd needs the chair slow to load but he’s trying to jump up on it.
• On 12/21 we saw Elias from Todd’s class & skied 3 runs with him
• He started skiing off piste off Summer Rd (see videos!)
• We bought Todd a set of poles; he said “I’m so excited to try my first set of poles”
• 1^st time skiing with poles (1/19)
• Playing on the snow slope & snowball fights

FOOD NOTES & OTHER

• His Goppa consumption is still way down but we got new spouts & that increased it a bit
• Todd ate raw spinach & Grandma’s mac ‘n cheez (12/23)
• He likes making a clicking sound with his tongue
• Todd helped me make mango coconut cookies & then he really wanted to make his own creation with strawberries & tofu
• Dining out: El Porton (1/16), Ice (1/20)