7 Things: Connor

Instead of writing 7 random things about me, I’m going to write 7 random things about each of my kids.  First up: Connor James.

1. He does not like spaghetti sauce.  When I make spaghetti, he gets noodles with butter and parmesan cheese.  When we eat pizza, he gets cheese sticks, or sometimes if I get out the ranch he will eat it.  He isn’t a terribly picky eater, but tomato sauce is one thing he consistently does not like.

2. He gets ready for the day and gets ready for bed in the exact same order every single day.  Wake up.  Eat breakfast.  Get dressed.  Go potty.  Brush teeth.  And bedtime: potty, bath, pj’s brush teeth, story, bed.  He never varies from that order.  Ever.

3. He is hesitant to do new things until he knows he can do them well, and then he gets a little obsessed.  For example: drawing.  He wanted to draw batman but didn’t know how.  There were many tears involved in the process, but now we have notebooks full of batman drawings.  He was like that with learning to ride a bike, and I think reading is going to be the same thing.  He can read, but does not want to do it because he can’t do it perfectly, but soon I think it will be hard to get him to put the books down.

4. He has a super long tongue.  It’s really freakishly long.  We talk a lot about how God makes each of us special and gives us each special gifts.  And when we have this conversation, he almost always brings up his tongue.  “God made me special and creative and I’m a fast runner.  And God also gave me a really long tongue.”

5. He gets overstimulated very easily.  It’s something that gets easier to deal with the older he gets.  Now when he starts to get overstimulated, we can diffuse it before he explodes by having him color.  I’m glad that we finally figured out how to deal with this aspect of his personality, because let me tell you, it wasn’t pretty for quite some time.  The world is a very stimulating place!

6.  He loves numbers.  He loves to tell time, to count, to add things, etc.  He always sits in the same seat number on the bus, and on the same number on the carpet at school. He defines how much he likes something in number form.  My favorite is when he tells me “I love you 80 million galaxies past pluto.”

7. His favorite color is black.

2 Replies to “7 Things: Connor”

  1. My oldest is exactly the same as 3 and 5. Gotta do things perfectly and gets overstimulated. He is thankfully calming down a bit with both, but not a lot. 🙂
    Cute post.

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