Jameson is 6!

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY JAMESON!

 Baby Jamo - AWWWWW!!

 Look at that irresistible smile! I've been told his Daddy also had a

heart-melting smile when he was a little boy.

My little boy is just not so little anymore! We love our fun-loving Jameson. We still call him Jamo a lot of the time, but more often than not lately he corrects us with, "I'm not Jamo, I'm Jameson!" Well, that's okay with me. What can I say about Jameson? He loves Kindergarten and school in general. Every day when I pick him up from school and ask him what he did that day, his response is usually, "I don't know..." But eventually he'll tell me about the things he did in music, or at recess, or he'll unload a stack of artwork from his backpack to show me, and he'll have a lot to say about it all. 

Jameson is another one of my artists. He loves doing art at school. His teacher has a "center" that is full of open-ended art supplies, and Jameson always comes home with creative artwork that he's done during his free time. He is usually the cause of the rapid depletion of printer paper and scotch tape here at home. He is perfectly happy to just draw with a pencil or pen, but has started to get more creative with color. Most of all, he is my junk artist! Cardboard boxes, plastic jugs, empty toilet paper rolls, and more are his most preferred medium! He creates all kinds of 3-dimensional junk sculptures. Honestly, it can drive me nuts sometimes because the junk gets left all over. I tend to hurry things off to the recycling bin before he sees them! Today he came to me with a granola bar box and those big brown puppy dog eyes and said, "Mom, I'm the junk boy! Right?" Of course I had to give in and I watched him run off with the box, totally delighted to begin a new project.

Jameson and some of his artwork in his bedroom.

If you walk through our house you will find random drawings and bits of his art on almost every wall! I finally had to draw the line and take down a drawing he'd hung up on the wall in my "nice" living room, next to the big picture of the temple! I guess I'm just mean like that.

Jamo also has the Dodds movie-quoting gene. He only has to see a movie once or twice before he is quoting lines from it left and right. And if he's seen the movie more than that, he can quote big chunks of it! Yesterday he started quoting the Olaf scene from "Frozen." From "Hi, I'm Olaf, and I like warm hugs!" right through the Olaf in summer song, he had it down pat. It just makes me laugh.

One last funny, quirky thing about Jameson right now. He will come home from school and take off his shoe. That's right, one shoe, not both. He'll spend the whole day running around with one shoe off and one shoe on - or if both shoes are off he'll take one sock off and leave the other on. Brett and I both think it is super weird because our perfectionist/slightly OCD natures go nuts just looking at him!

Jameson has been so excited about his birthday! He told everyone yesterday that we all needed to have a bath or a shower so we would all be clean for his birthday! Silly kid. We're excited for some birthday fun this evening. More on that to come!