L2

L2
My most favor-ist middle child!
Lawson will be starting Kindergarten come this fall. Currently he is going to a short 2 day a week (4 hrs each day, total 8 hrs per week) pre-K program.
Lawson is EXTREMELY persistent and driven (gets that from his Dad). This trait surfaced as early as a baby. He loves to be put to work and do jobs. Boy is he a hard worker!
Even though it's hard to tell at such an early age, it seems as if he is highly intelligent... Especially in the math area. He definitely has some sort of amazing math skill. He loves numbers, and is always "calculating" things in his mind. He even gets the concept of division and multiplication... And not to "compare" but he seems to be at a higher level of math than his brother who is in 1st grade. As I am sitting down helping L1 with math, L2 is in the background shouting out the answers! He has started reading, and I love that he reads ME books now. We do A LOT of reading/library time in the summer, so by the time he starts kinder in the fall he should be a proficient reader!
If I had to define him in one word, it would be 'busy". Definitely not the hyper type of busy and not the ADHD busy... Just busy! He doesn't require much sleep (another trait from his daddy), and he is on the go for the entire day with his only "down time" being forced by me... He stays up later than L1 and wakes up before L1. He just pops out of bed (6:15ish), dresses himself and is ready to start the day!
Sports!!! This kid is exceptional at each and every sport he tries. Currently he is the soccer star of his team, and will be on the swim team this summer. He has quite the arm, and can throw a power ball!
Lawson is shy, and get's embarrassed easily (unlike his older brother, but like his mom!). If he is feeling very comfortable with friends he does have a silly/humorous side and can crack people up. He loves to make his older brother laugh by being silly! Even though he is somewhat shy, having friends is important to him. In school, they say is the leader and the "cool kid", he gets the other kids to follow him and play what he wants to play. He has a couple of close neighborhood friends, that he is CONSTANTLY wanting to play with... He is always asking to have friends over from school, and I attempt to make play date arrangements for him as much as possible!
Something that I didn't expect was how amazing he is with his baby brother. He will play with the baby the whole entire day without even taking a break! He has a great sense of what the baby needs... He will run and get his "paci" if he starts to cry, go get his favorite toys, come tell me if the baby is hungry/thirsty. He just loves loves loves that baby!!! They say the middle child has the "difficult" placement (I was one!) but so far it seems as if he has the best of both worlds... He is the only that has both a big brother and a little brother, and he has such amazing relationships with both! 99% of the time, he and Lincoln are best buds and I think that they get along so well because they are completely different!
Physically: Lawson is the one of the 3 boys that is constantly being told he looks like me! I can't remember one time someone telling me that Lincoln looks like me, but I hear about Lawson looking like me on an almost daily basis! His height: he started out being on the "short end" of the scale, now he is consistently in the 50% average for his height... meaning he will be probably be around Ron's height... (Lincoln supposedly by the doc's calculations will be just over 6foot).... He's got the blond hair, big blue droopy eyes, thick eyelashes. Super handsome kid (facial scars and all)!
Even though he is extremely strong and athletic, he is very accident prone. 1st broken bone of the boys, and 1st and only so far (where's the wood) stitches. It is very common for at any point in time for him to have either a black eye, bloody lip, or a bump on his head. His elbows and knee's are constantly scraped up and his body is always covered with random bruises, scrapes, and scratches. He's ALL BOY and he plays hard!
This kid loves Super Hero's and Star Wars, and all that "all boy" stuff. Something I wasn't prepared for after L1 never once picked up a super hero or a matchbox car. It was really fun seeing him play so differently than my 1st!
His nicknames at home are either Lawsy, or The Bear. If you want to know where The Bear name originated, just ask Ron to explain next time you see him. This kid loves to eat avacado's and broccoli!
Lawson is the one who I'm predicting will be very college scholarship eligible due his brains/athletic ability!