Happy 5th Birthday, Connor!

Today is Connor's 5th Birthday!

I haven't done a milestone post for him in ages...probably since last June 27th.

Height:  44 inches
Weight:  40 lbs 5 oz

He's so so so into Legos right now.  And reading.  He's starting to read on his own really well.  He can do all sorts of early reader books.  And we are working on his handwriting.  It's getting good enough so that I'm not the only one that can decipher it any more.  And when he picks a book for me to read to him, it's a longer chapter book with hardly any pictures.

Harry Potter.  He's into Harry Potter.  The first three movies are rated PG, so I agreed to let him watch them.  He's only seen the first two, though, because he liked the second one so much that he asked to watch that one again.

He still loves board games.  Monopoly is one of his favorites.  He has three versions.  Ohio State Buckopoly.  Dino-opoly (from the Chicago Field Museum).  The Disney version Monopoly.

This past weekend, we stopped at a yard sale on a whim, and he found a different version of Risk than the one he had at home.  He wanted it, so he helped me scrounge up $3 out of the diaper bag to buy it.  He was totally floored that the map on the board was different than the one he already had.

We are planning a Lego Heroica themed birthday for him.  Since that isn't a theme that you can find in a party supply store, we have basically had to come up with everything ourselves.  But it wasn't hard.  Connor actually had it all planed out in his head when he told me about it.

Happy Birthday, Connor!