Growing up...

For the past few days Toby has been excited about turning 5.  He's been talking about his birthday party for several months now but his birthday party isn't till another month from now.  What is it about turning 5 that kids are excited about? Anyhow for the past week there has been some significant growth on his part.  His behavior has been stellar. Not much whining/crying on his part, very helpful, listening well, understands that he needs to do homework BEFORE playing.  WOW my boy is growing up.  I just wish his body size gets bigger and taller.  Oh well that's ok cause I grew during intermediate thru high school.  When Toby reads this when he gets older I hope he knows that his daddy is very proud of him. I love you Tobias....

At dinner time....

Well I'm very proud father this evening.  At dinner Toby said that we were lucky.  I was a little caught off guard by him saying this so I asked him, "what do you mean by lucky?" Toby replied by saying, "We're lucky because we have food, a place to live, clothes, tv, toys..." I was saying to myself WOW he's only 4 yrs old and he's starting to understand how grateful we should be.  I just hope that as he gets older that he remembers how grateful we should be.  I also asked him, "if we're so lucky what do you do about it?" Toby then answered that he can give up some of his toy's to kids that don't have much and that he wants to go and buy food for those that don't have food. I'm very proud of him for saying that and that I need to react on this so that he knows that I listen to him and that we should do something about it.