Below are a few notes about Henry’s past year along with his favorites.
Henry at 9
What is your favorite color? Green
2. What is your favorite toy? Art stuff
3. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberry
Favorite vegetable? Mashed potatoes
4. What is your favorite tv show? Star Wars, wild kratts
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Pizza
6. What is your favorite outfit? Nike turquoise shirt
7. What is your favorite game? Golf, stratego
8. What is your favorite snack? Energy balls (the ones I make with oats/honey/PB, etc)
9. What is your favorite animal? Deer, squirrel, lizard, dog
10. What is your favorite song? All slugs and bugs
11. What is your favorite book? Moody series
12. Who is your best friend? Dawson and carter and Jackson
13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey bunches oats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swim
15. What is your favorite drink? Water
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Gray blanket
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? El Olmeca
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Veterinarian
-He learned to mow last Spring, and it’s awesome! He’s really good at it and it’s very helpful!
-He finally figured out how to Blow bubble gum bubbles.
-He came up with a Blanket sniffing contest with the girls-close their eyes and sniff the blanket in front of them, then decide who’s it is-ha!
-He had a great 3rd grade year, and had a great attitude about homework even though he had quite a bit each afternoon (shortened days and seat work done at home due to COVID). He started Latin this year and really liked it. He loves his teacher Mrs Raper-they are kindered spirits bc they’re both artists. He says his favorite part of the day is History when Mrs Raper reads to them (from the story of the world) and Literature time (this year they read Little House on the Prairie, The Door in the Wall, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Charlottes Webb, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, A Christmas carol, Alice in Wonderland, and more!). On his own time, he has enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes, the Moody series, and Magic Tree House (especially the nonfiction companion guides and fact trackers).
-Henry is still a thinker and is always pondering different things like, I wonder what it would be like to have an older sibling? He has many questions each day that we can’t answer and we have to ask Alexa. Guinness book of world records type stuff.
-Henry loves to take his time with things and would rather us not help when it comes to his school projects, so we usually have minimal involvement. This year he had a solar system project, a history biography bottle project, an illuminated letter, and much more! He always does a good job and the projects are truly his! Creating is his favorite pastime-proof of this is on the Friday starting our fall break he grabbed his art book and colored his heart out the entire afternoon! He will often choose to put in his earbuds and draw.
-grandpa put in a treehouse in the fall, and Henry helped. He busied himself making
“furniture” for it using his drill. We put in a Zip line and he had some unexpected fear we had to work through the first few times, but now he’s a pro (it has a pretty intense ending).
-the girls and he like to discuss their plans for Hen’s den-their future restaurant where moms will eat for free and Annie will take care of the horses outside for the patrons to come see.
-for a while he was planning and leading Devotions w the girls-reading certain passages, having them memorize certain verses, etc. he had it all planned out and did a good job-a teacher in the making?? He is a great brother.
-Henry had a fish Jack for many months that finally died. He was a sad boy and we buried Jack in the backyard in a wooden box he’d decorated, then Henry made a mosaic stepping stone to put on top.
-He played spring soccer and was on golf team for the first time (end of his second grade year). He earned National on the Presidential Physical Fitness test in 2nd grade.
-he memorized John 1-3 in 3rd grade (it’s amazing) and was featured on the virtual church svc during COVID reciting a verse the preacher would preach on. He also sang a part with his choir that was on the Mother’s Day church video.
We love you, sensitive, creative, silly boy! Happy birthday!
