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Monday, October 21, 2024

When Life is Just Playtime | NLW Turns 6

Five was such a fun animal-filled year for NLW! Going to zoos and aquariums, seeing two reptile guys, discovering marine iguanas, playing zoo in the basement, completing animal research projects at "summer school" and soaking up every animal fact from visual encyclopedias. You’re a little zoologist at heart, and we watched your interest jump from the rainforest to reptiles, and then to marine animals.

Aside from being animal obsessed, if I could sum your year up in six verbs, here's what I'd choose:

1. Learning
This year broadened your world with all the friends and teachers you met through preschool and the start of Kindergarten. We have loved watching your amazing ability to spell, write, and read! Thanks to Pre-K, you released salmon in the wild and discovered the show Octonauts :) 

2. Drawing
The walls in your room became a laboratory and you developed a distinct style for drawing and labeling animals. You prefer copying realistic pictures of animals, so we’ve been checking out the Animal Encyclopedias from the library regularly

3. Reading
Your enjoyment of reading and looking through books has never ceased. This year though, you started to read them ON YOUR OWN! 

4. Beachcombing
You love digging in the sand, and walking the beach at low tide to find clam and crab shells.  

5. Exploring
You are happy and easy-going and always up for an adventure! I love sharing my love for the outdoors with you on our many family excursions. 

6. Smiling!
It's been fun to celebrate your evolving smile with you as you lose teeth. You lost your top two just days apart. 
You are chatty, friendly, curious, and best of all, still a playful little boy! We adore, admire, and cherish you!
Favorite Color: purple
Favorite Animal: jaguar and marine iguanas and rattlesnake
Favorite Show: Octonauts
Favorite Movie: The Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef
Favorite Song: Tiny Dino by Andrew & Polly
Favorite Soundtrack: PJ Masks
Favorite Book: Seattle Animal Books
Favorite Playground: Jefferson Park
Favorite Activity: drawing
Favorite Thing to Play: Rainforest and sometimes desert and now reptile
Favorite Toy: stuffie rattlesnake Copper
Favorite Food: chocolate
Favorite Treat: pudding
Favorite Store: Safeway
What do you want to be when you grow up: marine biologist
What my mom thinks I'll be when I grow up: wildlife biologist 

You are our favorite 6 year old. 
- SJW 

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