Davis at age 5

Davis says he loves "hotness." If he gets in the car and needs it to be warmer, he says "I need hotness." (He also calls it coldness.) :) 

Davis's first night in his big boy bed was mid January! Is age 4.5 too old to be in a crib? Probably, yes. But also--have you met this crazy boy? We kept him caged as long as possible haha. We tried telling him it was so scary to climb out of the crib, which is what made him too scared to get out for so long. Then he finally got brave and kept doing it so we made the switch to the big boy bed. It was honestly a tough adjustment. I think he got up at 4 AM for several months and was always very tired. But at this point, he's adjusted and sleeps decently well.

He's become very creative this year and is always making really complicated lego creations. Most of them are weapons. (He's very into making weapons to "kill bad guys" in general. We've often joked he'll be a weapon designer one day.)

He's gotten really good at puzzles this year and enjoys them.

His best buddy is probably Trey Stanley. They play so well together. Basically, they're both high energy mischievous boys and they understand each other. :)

Davis finished up tumbling in May. He loved his teacher. It was great to get some energy out and let me shower in peace on Mondays when he didn't have preschool.

He went through a 1-2 month phase where he was obsessed with playing this farm memory game.

Cute preschool class

Davis and Theo were on their first soccer team together. They basically dominated because it was a toddler team and they were the oldest. They were very cute.

A wall drawing in Davis's room. :( 

Davis's Sound Beginnings music class. It was so fun the first half of the year and then he decided he hated it and didn't want to cooperate the second half of the year. So fun having Theo in class and Carson/Anna too.

Davis loves the "ninja turtle game." (War) He really learned to love games this year. He has big reactions to everything. He really loves to win and really hates to lose. I actually think this game helped him really understand numbers and which numbers are higher/lower.

Davis is the cutest, most creative artist. I always love seeing what he comes up with.

Two of his beloved preschool teachers, Miss Val and Miss Ariel. (Not pictured, Miss Mandy.) He had them for two years and loves them. 

These two are just the cutest friends. He can be mean to Violet still but he absolutely adores her. And she's so sweet and nurturing to him.

Big fan of the butterfly museum and absolutely no fear in picking up critters. He'll pick up all sorts of things in our yard and put them in cups to be our pets. (Until they die.) I realized this year that's how he thinks people get pets--he thinks they find them in nature. When we're on a hike he's hoping to find an animal to be his pet. :)

Davis did his first T-ball season with Brendan as his coach and Fordy on his team. He had fun, but didn't love it nearly as much as soccer.

These three continue to be good buddies and we had fun going to splash summit. (Except for the time Davis took off running from me without his puddle jumper and I was terrified he was drowning somewhere. A lifeguard pulled him out of the lazy river and saved him.)

We did swimming lessons this year at The Swimmin' Hole and loved it. Davis made a lot of progress and can basically swim short distances now. Here he is jumping in (he got brave a few times and did it without his teacher holding on to him).

He loves swimming lessons!

He's obsessed with this onesie Fordy gave him for his bday. He loves wearing it to bed.

Davis is a lover of tape. We go through a whole lot of tape.

I call him my special boy. I absolutely adore him.

Bug lover!

Star of the week in Kindergarten. 

He loves to help me in the kitchen.

Abby jokes that he loves the "darkness." It really is true though. He loves scary things. He always wants to pick out Halloween books or books with scary things. And he wants to watch scary shows.

Davis drawing this stuffed llama. Maybe the cutest thing I've ever seen.

He won honorable mention with this in the school reflections contest! He got a medal and is so proud.

Lots of cute selfies on my phone like this.

Can you even handle him? I always ask him why he's so cute and he says, "I don't know!"

A house he drew.

A cute shirt Elder Tuibarotu sent back with my parents for him.

Davis is reading now! He can read words with 3 letters and some with 4 letters. He is so proud of himself and it is so fun to watch. He's obsessed with doing Lexia and has already finished all the Lexia levels for Kindergarten.

Cuties in sweatsuits

More lego creating

He loves "Sleeping McQueens"

Can't handle this cute scarecrow he drew at school.

Davis with Principal Pead and Henry from his class with his reflections medal.

Absolutely adore my special boy so much. He says I'm his favorite and I don't mind at all. I could eat him up. (I always tell him I want to eat just some of him. Maybe a finger? A toe? A nose? He laughs and says "noooooo.") 

Cutest paper from school. I love how he writes and sounds things out.

• He's done so well starting kindergarten. I was extremely nervous about it, but he has absolutely loved it (and so have I). He's really thrived and is basically reading. He had some delays in preschool, but he's testing above grade level on some things now. At the encouragement of his kinder teacher (Mrs. Hurst), we've pulled him out of his extra help. I thought we would have him repeat kindergarten, but I'm not seeing how we'll do that now. He's really just doing so well. He loves Mrs. Hurst and Mrs. Morgan (his aid). They're always telling me funny stories about things he says at school.
• Davis is the cutest singer. He has a really good voice and really good pitch. I love when he sings Sweeney Todd songs: Not While I'm Around and Johanna. His favorite is "Epiphany" which he calls "We All Deserve to Die." (Which is connected to his love of darkness that I talked about earlier.) 
• Davis loves music and loves blasting songs on his Alexa in his room. He loves songs from the Zombies movie. And Imagine Dragons and Coldplay. And the music from "Into the Spiderverse." 
• He has a whole box of pokemon cards he's inherited from his brothers and he loves them. 
• He is such a stinker in primary. He is pretty disruptive in singing time and talks to the music teacher as if he the lesson is just a one on one chat between the two of them. 
• In the primary program he was soooo naughty. He kept saying "nipple" over and over again. When the primary president (Michelle Beckstead) was giving her remarks and just said "blah blah blah" loudly over and over again. Not sure why they stuck him right next to the microphone. Also, during "As I Have Loved You," he loudly just sang "chew gum" the entire song. Not sure where he came up with that? 
• Davis is so cute at this stage and I'm trying to just soak him up since he's our last. In my opinion there is nothing cuter than a 5 year old. I love his cute remarks on the world. And his zest for life. He makes everything more fun. 
• He still has a big temper and gets very mad when he doesn't get what he wants. He really likes to win and will find a way to make sure things go his way. If he's mad at me he'll say stuff like "I hate you so much. You're a stupid little mom." Last night he apologized after he did that though, so I think he's maturing a bit! :) 
• He has a very kind heart. I was having a hard time last week and he came over and scratched my back. And then said, "Mom, I will do all your work!" And went around cleaning the house. 
• This is random, but he loves Sara's teeter totter at their new house. He will spend 30 minutes on it, happy as a clam. He's also obsessed with their dog Milo. It's temping me to get a dog. He asks Sara, "Can I take this guy home?" 
• Davis has the cutest giggle and loves to laugh. Like most 5 year olds, he thinks potty words are hilarious. 
• He loves to read books. If he's not listening, we usually threaten he won't get a story before bedtime which is a big blow to him.
• He's very friendly at school and knows everyone's name. A social guy, through and through. The principal recently emailed me a cute video to show me that he'll hang out with a table of sixth graders, no problem, and talk to them like they're peers. 
• We adore our Davis boy and I don't know what we'd do without him!