Sunflowers

Whenever I look at a sunflower from now on I hope I will remember our bike rides together...especially the one where we ended up at the local nursery to grab a couple seed packets.  It's hard to believe that our first attempt at planting sunflowers was over two years ago! I barely remember what you were like yet alone your sister! 

This time when you planted the seeds you actually cared for them for almost a week. Then it was "mom you water them" as you were off to play with neighbors. 

As this seed was growing so were you. You are nearly 60 lbs and I already forgot how many inches. You still love noodles with a touch of butter. Anytime I feed you white meat you call it "shicken." You still love to catch creatures and don't always like to share them with friends. You are into a cartoon that drives me crazy (but I think dad deleted it so we are good) the last of our pbs cartoons that you watch is wild krats. If you get ahold of our phones you usually ask google to find catching turtle or fish videos. We buy things that are turquoise just to hear you say it. You dream of more fidget spinners...usually the ones  your friends have and you don't. You trade Pokémon on occasion, but I don't see that being a bus trend this year. You love a good outfit that matches and a pair of slick boxer briefs to go with it...unless it's summer or the weekend and you prefer going commando. You are not a big fan of taking orders...EVER...unless you want me to buy you something. You still crunch peppers and peas like you did when you were two. In fact you ate one straight from our friends garden and you said it was so good and it was the best one you have ever tasted. 

You like sports when they are in season and I wonder if you will talk football with dad this fall. You would rather spend time with your friends instead of us. When you are hungry you are hungry...but mostly you are a grazer. 

You still love your hands and feet to be tickled at night before bed and you aren't a fan of me cutting your hair or nails. Other than that it doesn't seem like you have changed too much.