Reed is 4.25 years old!

Whoa, we have a 4 year old!  I can't believe how big our little guy is getting.  He says things sometimes that give me a glimpse of him getting older and more mature and as excited as I get to see him learning and growing, it also makes me a little sad.  Even though I tell him that he will always be my little boy, it certainly want always be like it is now.  I just have to remember to soak it all in.

Stats:
Weight: 35 lbs.
Height: 42 in.

At 4 Months:

• Reed is one smart little cookie.  He can write all of his letters from memory, some better than others.  He has also learned my phone number, which I hope he will never need to use but I am glad he knows it.
• He loves to color and he is really good at it.  He is very particular about coloring angry birds, toy story characters, ninja turtles the right way.  Each piece of costume is colored the way that he has seen it and he gets angry if he messes up.  He usually does this from memory.  He loves for me to search the internet for whatever he might like to color, and then he spends 20 minutes scrolling through the google images to find just the right picture to color.
• He can be a total melt-my-heart, make-me-cry-he's-so-sweet kid.  Last night as we were in the car heading back to our house from Summerville, he asked if he could do the Buzz Lightyear thing when we got home.  He likes for Chris to lay on the floor while holding Reed up in the air by his feet (I have to hold his hands, of course!).  We told him that he would probably be asleep when we got home.  He was adamant that he would be awake.  Well, about 15 minutes later he said "Daddy, we'll have to do that thing tomorrow, because I am really sleepy".  Five minutes later, he was out, sawing logs.  Such a sweet boy.
• Favorite Color:  Red
• Favorite Food: Pizza and Ice Cream, although he never met a sweet he didn't like.  He also loves cheese quesadillas with black beans from Willy's.
• He is adored by all of his friends.  I have been stopped multiple times by either parents of kids in his class or parents of kids who he plays with on the playground with to tell me that their kid LOVES Reed.  It makes me so happy to hear that our little guy is loved by his peers.
• He loves playing good guy/bad guy.  Of course, he always has to be the good guy.
• He loves music and he loves to sing.  I have been on a country kick lately, so he has been learning a good many country songs.  It is so cool when he asks me to the turn the radio up, so he can hear the song and sing along to it.  His favorite song right now is "That's My Kind of Night" by Luke Bryan. "Floating down the Flint River, catch yourself a little catfish dinner, don't it sound like a winner, winner, lay you down and love you right.  Yeah, that's my kind of night."  Probably not the most appropriate lyrics for a 4 year old, but he loves the catfish dinner part, ha!  Zac Brown would not be pleased.
• He continues to have what some people call tantrums but we call outbursts.  This deserves a post all to itself.  I hope to sit down soon and write all about how these go down and how we are trying to deal with them, because I know that we are going to get past this and we will all laugh about how angry he used to get when he was 4.
• He is very into Ninja Turtles and Star Wars right now.