Bennett is 4 years old!

I cant believe my baby boy is FOUR YEARS OLD! It seems like yesterday we were walking up the stairs in the transition house, turning left and into his room and peering into his crib to see him smiling back at us.  It has been an amazing journey these past 3 years and 4 months.  We went from 0 kids to 3 kids in that amount of time. 

Bennett goes to school 4 days a week (half days).  He gets occupational therapy twice a week and speech therapy twice a week.  He is one busy boy.  He really likes his school and he even has a "girlfriend" there.  Her name is Reese, or REEE-SEE as Bennett calls her.  He follows her everywhere. Sometimes his teacher has to seperate them two, othertimes she finds it easier to leave them together. It is hilarious.  He loves his speech therapist, Kristie.  Now we bring him in some Chickfila lemoade to motivate him in speech.  We are still working on his attention span and trying to increase his ability to sit and complete tasks. His comprehension has improved tons over the past year, along with his speech.  He also needs to work on his "play skills" and imagination.  We are working on potty training, but it looks like we have a uphill battle with it.

He is saying and repeating lots of words now a days.  We are working more on putting sentences together and combing words and using multiple syllable words.  He can say "I want ...." fill in the blank with whatever he is wanting.  Another sentence we here alot is "Swing higher please." We also here a lot of "Choc-late milk please!" 

He loves eating fruit and chicken and fries the most.  Also loves to try to sneak everyones cokes away from them.  He still loves his milk !

He loves to be outside, swing, go on wagon rides, go to grandmas houses, seeing his family, playing with Brayden, playing with Reese at school, going to Chickfila, playing with his buddy Caleb, watching movies, and playing his ipad.  He loves to watch Disney Jr. and Dinsey and Pixar movies.  (Cars, Wreck It Ralph, Tangled, Bolt, Brave, Toy Story, Shrek are all favorites around here along with Doc Mc Stuffins and Sofia and some others on Disney Jr.)

Bennett has grown from about 15lbs when he brought him home to almost 40lbs! He is officially a big kid and out of toddlerhood.  I am one proud momma. Bennett is a hard worker and is determined.

Bennett

Bennett is starting to be able to match his colors now! He has been able to repeat the color words for a little bit but recently he has been able to recognize the colors! Who hoo!  He has made great improvements little by little.  He is learning to follow directions more.  His understanding is improving.  He is able to say lots of words now. My favorite new thing of his is when he says "hold me".  Melts my heart.  It is hilarious when he yells  at Brayden or wants us to do something to Brayden instead of him ( like wash hair or change diaper)... he will yell "Bway-den!" and clap his hands! Too funny.  I love that boy! He is going to school 4 days a week 1/2 days and has speech once a week and occupational therapy once a week. We are hoping he gets his approval for more therapy soon!  He is learning so much and does better each week. He met all of his goals this month in OT, most had to do with his attention span and transition to new activities.  He goes to Cubbies (Awanas) on Wed night at church.  I love that my little boy is putting scripture in his heart even if he cant say every word of the verses, hearing it and trying are great for him.  His Cubbies teacher is great with him.  He had surgery on his eye a few weeks ago to fix the crossing. So far it seems to have worked, hopefully he wont have to have any more surgeryto fix it.