Liam is at a difficult age right now. It really hit me when I started trying to plan his birthday party. He is getting too old for some things, but isn’t quite old enough for other things. He really wants to go to a Laser Tag place for his birthday party, but he isn’t old enough. He also wants to do glow in the dark golf, but I don’t think five-years olds quite have the fine motor skills to do that, especially in the dark. Yet, he’s a little too old, I think, for some of the other options that have been pretty standard up until now. He won’t take animal crackers in his lunch…they’re too babyish. (I think someone told him that because he eats them just fine at home.) He will still watch Backyardigans (especially if it’s one he hasn’t seen before) and he still likes an episode of Diego every now and again. His book choices are becoming more complex and so are his tastes in movies. He wanted to go see Waterhorse over break, but after doing a bit of research we decided he wasn’t old enough. We explained it too him. He still wants to see it, but he didn’t put up a fight. He is still making good choices, but I can feel it coming. I am holding onto his “little guyness” at long as possible, but I know that I will have to let it go, eventually, too. They grow up, darn it.
On the Cusp
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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