Blog Update

I have been on a hiatus from blogging this year and will try my best to update the blog.  William has done lots of different things in the last 6 months, from play dates, school parties, birthday parties, traveling, turning the big 5, to getting ready to be a big brother and moving to Hawaii. There is lots of action at the Newton household.

The biggest milestone for William was turning 5 on April 10th of this year.  We can hardly believe that our little baby boy is now 5! William is one of the biggest blessings Chris and I will ever get in this life time.  He is truly an amazing child that we love dearly.  He is a good boy but does a good job at being assertive with others if needed. He is a natural leader!

William had a great year in pre-school!  He made new friends and learned about animals, ABC’s, numbers, social play, God, and much more.  He graduated two weeks ago I will post pictures and videos!

Favorite Toys

William is currently really into Lego’s and will build houses and campers out of them, among other things. He really loves building things up and taking them down to build them up again.  For his birthday he got a few different Lego sets of Star Wars and has had a blast building them with some help from me or Chris. The age group is 7-12 but after we do it once he can do it by himself.  He also likes swords, drawing/coloring,  and playing with marine life animals and anything relating to the sea.

Favorite TV show

His two current favorite TV shows are The Octonauts and Jake and the Never Land Pirates on Disney Junior.  In the Octonauts, the characters go on various missions to save or help sea life.  William has learned lots of facts about sea life through the show.  Because of these shows he now often speaks like a pirate, it’s very funny!

Current Interests

His current interests are learning about sea life, insects, and Astronomy (stars, planets, etc).  His bed time stories of choice are about marine life facts or most currently about Insect facts.  This has been going on for 3+ months now, he is really in to it.  Chris and I have learned a thing or two as well after reading the books over and over.

Recent Milestones

He can add and subtract simple math problems such as 1+2=3 or 5-1=4.  He has also learned to count in 10s. He continues to improve on his reading and knows just about all the different sounds of the alphabet. 

Favorite Book                                                          

His favorite book for the last few months has been Amazing Sharks and Sea Creatures.  Right now we are reading 1000 Facts on Bugs! He loves his good night story time, most nights it’s more of a family reading time so the baby gets to listen in!