Today is Ari's sixth birthday. Why do I get so emotional on each birthday? Ari is the baby of the family, the youngest of the kids, and I just can't believe he's six. Sometimes he talks like he's 30, and sometimes he acts like he's 3. But he's actually six, and he's not really a baby anymore. Here's a list of things about Ari, that I've been thinking about when I realized his birthday was this week.
1. Ari is adorable - he's a blonde haired, blue eyed, freckle nosed cutie. He's medium height and build, but enormous on personality. He's got a great smile, and a fabulous laugh.
2. Ari loves numbers and letters - his first obsession was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and boy, did we watch/read that a million times before he was three. He taught himself to read by age two, and loves numbers, graphs, calculators, rules, and scales. Anything that measures, weighs or gives him numerical information. On a recent trip to IKEA he wore the free paper tape measure around his head like a headband. We're not really sure why.
3. Ari loves to talk. My cousin took him in their car when we took an hour long drive to the Kennedy Space Center and said he absolutely did not stop talking the entire time. After a playdate yesterday the mom who picked him said he got off the bus talking a mile a minute. Ari has a constant need to update those around him on his thoughts, his feelings, his observations, etc. Luckily he's cute, because it gets really annoying. He also has a habit of saying, hundreds of times a day, "I have to tell you something." before he tells you something. He talks and talks and talks...
4. Ari is a great eater, and he loves meat. He'll try a variety of foods, and his current favorites include ribs, corn on the cob, meatballs, hotdogs, and pasta. He's not really a lover of dairy, cereal, or any bread products. He always takes his burgers out of the bun. He's kind of a low-carb kid, without really knowing it.
5. Ari loves video games. I was never really a fan of video games for kids, but he got a DS last year and a Wii for Chanukah and man, does he love them. His favorite games are racing games, and the balance games on the Wii. He loves to watch his cousins play games as well, because they can get to levels that he can't. After playing his games for awhile he'll start drawing games, drawing very intricate (but totally confusing) "levels" on different pieces of paper. Then he'll start drawing these tediously small people, his "lives" and cutting the people out. Anyone watching him would think I am denying him video games.
6. Six years ago today he was born sometime in the evening. He had the same blood complication as his sister and spent a week in the pediatric unit of the hospital. When he came home he had an-almost-two-year sister and two older cousins who couldn't wait to hold him and play with him. His first name means lion in Hebrew, and his middle name begins with an H to remember Rich's grandfather (on his father's side). Some his first words included 'poptart', 'spongebob', and 'doggy.' He slept like a dream, and I could put him down awake and he'd fall asleep by himself. He still sucks his thumb and drags a stuffed rabbit who has a rattle on his paw(un-originally named Rattle Bunny) everywhere he goes. He had blocked tear ducts and two surgeries to correct them. He's a fabulous kid, who's lovable and snuggly and has clear limits of what he wants and likes. I'm very lucky to be his mama.
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