7 year old Aaron

Aaron turned 7 but he likes to point out he looks older and taller than most 8 year olds.

7 year old Aaron loves Garfield.  He watches the Netflix show daily and proudly wears his new shirt he picked out. 

 One day in the car Aaron brought up Garfield and Bart commented that he has the autograph of the creator of Garfield.  Aaron lit up like the 4th of July and said "Oh dad if you ever go and get Garfields autograph again I really want to come.    Bart proceeded to try and explain how the autograph was of Jim Davis and the 3 characters but before he said anything else Aaron burst out "wow you met Garfield, Odie and Jon Arbuckle.  That's incredible."     The two of them talked about Garfield for a minute and the conversation ended with plans for Aaron to write Jim Davis a letter asking for his autograph.    Aaron was also intrigued when I mentioned I once painted a picture of Garfield when I was around his age in my 4-h art class.   He begged and begged to see it so I finally dug it out of my cedar chest and he was so impressed with it he wanted to hang it up in his room so here it hangs as the only picture on his wall.  😂

7 year old Aaron loves food and  continues to eat like a horse.    I can only imagine how hard it will be to keep my kitchen stalked when this little boy turns into a teenager.   He often talks about being a Chef someday and jumps at every chance he can to help out with meal prep.   He's conflicted with the choice to be Garfield or a chef for Halloween.  Stay tuned for his decision.   He adores school lunch and tells me in great detail all the exciting food he ate that day.  One day he came home over the moon excited because the grocery store Harmon's came in with different types of fruit to sample.  He literally talked my ear off for hours about the experience!

7 year old Aaron is thriving in first grade.    His teacher Miss Turner is great at incentives and each day he comes home telling me all about the funny money he has earned that day.  He loves to count and recount his money and once he's earned some money he likes trading in dollars for 5 and 10's for 20's and recently convinced me to go to the bank and trade in all his cash into a $50 dollar bill.  Aaron's also pretty obsessed with Finish Fast points in class that add up to a trip to the Fishing Pond each Friday.     At parent teacher conference Miss Turner raved that Aaron is doing so great at everything except he needs to stop blowing his pencil across his desk all day.  😆.  Aaron was sailing along with easy peasy picture books being sent home each day so I told his teacher he is a better reader than that so now she sends home magic tree house chapter books.     Now each day after school when he's ready to get his "stuff" done to do his privileges you would think Aaron was in a torture chamber by the way he carries on about how long it will take to read one chapter with 8 pages.    Ironically most of the difficulty and time is not in the reading but in the sheer amount of energy he uses up trying not to do it.  He's slowly coming along especially when there's a fun size kit kat waiting at the end of the chapter for him. 

7 year old Aaron has such a tender heart and will cry in the blink of an eye but he has settled down a lot emotionally and is so pleasant to be around.   He's a friendly charismatic kid who's pretty humble and a little bit shy but about his popularity.  Here's a note I found in his backpack from his friend at school.

 I ran into a mom of a girl in his class and she said how much her Samantha talks about Aaron and how she is going to marry him when they get big.   Aaron turned all sorts of shades of red and shrugged in confusion.   He still drives his sisters, most Jane, crazy being a younger brother and he gets Spencer riled up but he usually goes with the flow unless he's being nagged.  I throughly enjoy what a fun conversationalist and friend he is to me. 

Here's to a great year 7 year old Aaron.  I hope you stay my tall, handsome, blond hair little boy for a a while yet!