Carter turns 6

 

My sweetheart baby boy Carter,

You're getting so big, stop growing up, you're 6 now and the little baby boy is slipping away.  What a year you have had. You smashed preschool and started kindy with such a bang. You have Miss Ruth this year, she was Masons teacher last year so its been interesting meeting with her and hearing how you're doing. Not that I ever compare the two of you but as you will already know, you are both so different. You are amazing, you listen and are super respectful in class. You show amazing leadership qualities and you are a wonderful friend. You are doing so amazing with your reading and writing and you love learning at school. You won another school award in term 1 and it's great to see how proud you are

You still love every ball sport ever, you take a basketball to school so you can "shoot hoops" at lunch time. You crack me up with how much you love to play and commentate your own plays. 

You love a cuddle, you still reach for my hand at every opportunity and you are full of kisses before bedtime. When things get too much for you I'll know because you still take yourself off for some alone time. 

 Your speech has really improved. We have finished up with therapy and you have found your voice not allowing people to speak over or for you any more. 

For you life right now is all about sports, friends, digging under rocks for gross bugs, drawing and colouring and marvel movies. Any one of those things makes you light up and you shine. 

Its so funny watching you play footy, you gravitate towards dummy half every single game, I think it frustrates me most when I see how hard you tackle Mason, Cooper and the neighbours and how considerate you are on the actual field, standoffish somewhat in defence, but boy you are fierce in attack.

You make me so proud, and I just adore you

Carter at 6:

• you are: 119.2cm tall
• you weigh 21.3 kilo
• Can you believe you still have all your baby teeth!
• you love: playing football in the front yard or vacant block, doing anything Cooper is doing
• your favourite food is: anything that Cooper likes, but also nachos, spag bol and home made pizza
• your best friend is Cooper but you've made some good friends at school (Jordan, Ethan), you love your footy mates too, Ollie and Toby in particular. 
• you hate: When Cooper just wants to play with his mates, Zoe bossing you around. when you have to play league tag and not tackle football
• Sweetest saying "when I am sleeping and I feel sick can i still cuddle you at night because I love you"
• Most memorable moment this year - oh buddy, you've had some huge moments this year, the sleep over with Dean and Adam, finishing speech therapy, being able to solo bodyboard on some pretty cool waves at Forster and kayaking to the island at Forster .