Amari at 4

(Some of this is repetitive because I just found it on my phone)



We just celebrated Amari's 4th birthday.  He wanted to celebrate his birthday with his closest friends, Josiah, Braelyn and Khilyn at Chuck E Cheese (he LOVES Chuck E).

He is all about hot wheels and Transformers.  He has watched this hot wheels show a thousand times.  And he has just about every transformer there is.  He is still so obsessed with cars, he will play with them all day.

Right now he is in the imagination stage, so he will play make believe with his transformers.  He is pretty good at occupying himself but he is still really busy so its hard to keep his attention for a really long time.

He is starting to get to that stage of making more friends and loves being around friends.  He tries keeping up with Becks and the older neighborhood kids.

He loves riding his bike

He is the biggest comedian; he loves laughing and he loves being silly.

He LOVES running around naked; every chance he gets he will take off his clothes and run around the house completely naked.  Once I was napping and he was walking outside completely naked.  An old lady came into my house yelling "excuse me"'.  I was half asleep, came out of my room and there she was laughing and holding onto his hand, telling me he was out in the middle of the road naked (I about died).

He is a climber, he is always climbing on the kitchen counters, turning on the water and playing in the  water.

He has just started to love playing chase.  He will say "try n get me"

I love when he says "whoosh (while wiping his forehead), that was a close one"

He takes forever to fall asleep, he fights it like nobody's business.

He is still doing in exercises for his brain development that Jared gave us, he hates doing them.  He had his audiology testing done for a scar that Jared saw on his right ear drum.  He passed the test just fine.

He loves swinging on the swings at the park.

He is still a daddy's boy.

Lately he has been waking up multiple times at night, comes into our room and tries to sleep with us (we have an extra bed by our bed that he crawls into).  I think it's just become a habit like it was with Beckham for a year.

He loves playing in our car

He is still such a foodie, hungry all the time

His speech has gotten better; but he definitely has a language all of his own.

He tried Karate with Beckahm and I was impressed at how well he did for not knowing anything.  He started feeling a bit overwhelmed and the instructor allowed him to leave.  I was so proud of him for trying.  He is so awesome at trying new things.  He's such a brave kid.

Amari was drifting off to sleep the night before his birthday and he was looking up at his ceiling with this longing gaze and glimmer in his eyes. His lips were smiling....I had a feeling come over me that he was seeing something. When he was really little he would do the same thing before bed every night, his eyes would dance, looking at the ceiling as if someone was talking to him or he was seeing something. 

I could'nt help but wonder and hope that he was remembering life before he came into this world 4 years ago--Remembering the important choice he made to come here and 

Amari loves music. He loves singing and he loves dancing. He is so good at mimicking others 

Right now he's obsessed with hot wheels and transformers. He will spend hours playing make believe with his hot wheels and transformers. 

He loves watching the hot wheels movies. 

He has been so grown up and so sweet to his friends brea and Khi. He has been so nice sharing his toys and playing with them.

He has been waking up multiple times a night and coming into our room to sleep and then waking up again to come climb in bed with me. 

Amari takes such a long time to put to bed. You'll see his eyes get droopy and he is so tired but he will shuffle his feet, raise his eye brows to try and get his eyes to stay open longer....lay there and Cheese it at me, it's so comedic to watch. 

Amari has been so in love with his bumblebee costume, he has to sleep in it and wear it all day long. Today after church he said "let go home, take shirt off, put bumblebee on." 

He's a sunbeam now and he doesn't really enjoy going to his classes :) 

Today the primary kids sand "I love to see the Temple" in sacrament, Amari ran right up there with beck--no reservations—and sister Morris held him and he belted out the song—singing his little heart out :) and waving to me the entire time. Everyone was laughing, it was adorable. 

Amari has been such a helper, he is getting better at cleaning up, he will help take the trash out, and today after church he loves helping me make all of these raw treats for the week (he's such a good taste tester). 

The boys have their moments, that's for sure, but there been getting along better. They love to wrestle each other.