Oakdate

Alright so here is my quarterly ambush of blog posts to catch everyone up on the last 4 months of our life! I really do want to be a blogger, but it is one of those things that I need to come to grips with that a blogger I am not.

Here is the "oakdate" (a.k.a. update on Oak)

Oak is now almost a 3 and 1/2 year old! Can you believe that? Not only is he a 3 and 1/2 year old, but one of the most amazing 3 and 1/2 year olds that I know!

We named Oak after a verse in Isaiah 61. It says "They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord, for the display of his splendor."

That has been our prayer for him that he will "display the splendor of the Lord." We see it often in him. I think that God has wired him for a love for people and for friends and will use that in his life as he gets older. Everywhere we go he wonders if there are going to be new friends there and is always inviting strangers to our house to play. I love this about him!

I guess the biggest thing that is going on in is that he has started preschool! It has been so good for him! He loves it and even referred to his teacher as his best friend. He comes home so excited about what he has created at school. He writes his letters now and will sit and do crafts with me. Believe me, I thought this day would never come! He just does not like to sit still.
We love preschool and are so thankful for his teachers and for what he is learning about the Bible, academically and socially. His best friends are three little girls in his class.

One of my favorite things is the way Oak plays with Lawson now. He sometimes doesn't like her being around now that she is mobile, but when he does play with her it is so fun. He can get her so riled up! She just loves him so much.

Oak is still into spooky, however, we are trying to get him to take a break. It is kind of creeping me out a little bit. This is the song that he was singing last night:
You better not cry, you better not pout I am telling you why, spooky things will come tonight.

Ahhh! Creepy!!

We are trying to get him into other things!! You'll see his Halloween costume on another post.

He loves life and just making people laugh! I think he is a lot like his daddy! He also loves Young Life and the Young Life leaders! It has been a fun part of our week to have weekly visits from the Holly Springs YL team! They have been so good to him and he asked me the other day if they were his Young Life leaders! So sweet!

Believe me, this kid is not 100% sweet and he has his temper moments and spends quite a bit of the day in the naughty step for having a bad attitude, but he is pretty awesome and we feel so blessed to be a part of his life.

We love this little 3 and 1/2 year old to the moon and back!