35 things about Thomas

 


















1. He was my hardest pregnancy, but easiest labor and baby.
2. Thomas was born on my Dad's birthday.
3. He was 15 days early and weighed 9lbs 3 oz. I weighed the same amount at birth!
4. His first word was "abre", because Matthew was really into Dora the Explorer when Thomas was learning how to talk.
5. He didn't walk until 15 months!
6. Thomas had beautiful blonde curls as a toddler.
7. If anyone describes Thomas, usually the first adjective is "sweet". His gentle spirit and easy nature are a huge blessing to me. He gives me the warm fuzzies on a daily basis!
8. He is very laid back. He wanted to learn how to swim without having to kick his feet.
9. He has two imaginary friends, "Gobi" and "Kingy". He told me yesterday that the were both born in Africa on the border of "A-ja" (asia) and when his imagination started having plane flights, they moved to Texas.
10. He loves watching sports. Many times, he will turn the channel from a cartoon to ESPN. He knows a lot of sports trivia.
11. Other people's feelings are very important to Thomas. He cries every time Matthew gets in trouble, and will often ask to do his punishment for him.
12. He still sucks his thumb when he is tired.
13. Thomas has a gift for numbers. He will look at my digital clock that says 8:47 and say "It's 13 minutes until 9!" He adds numbers in his head easily and will beat Matthew at math quizzes!
14. Thomas taught himself how to read last fall.
15. He is in the 90% and 95% for height and weight.
16. Thomas is very fair skinned and gets freckles on his face every summer.
17. He looked a ton like my sister when he was a toddler.
18. Thomas hates to say he is sorry when someone tells him to say it. He has a bit of a stubborn streak!
19. He has been beating me at Memory since he was 3.
20. Thomas loves to go anywhere and hates to stay at home if someone is leaving.
21. He wants to be just like "Buddy". They still sleep in the same bed.
22. I would say that he likes to be babied every bit as much as Mary Beth.
23. He has a dimple in the middle of his nose. He loves to say that it is where God kissed him right before he was born.
24. Thomas's favorite city is Seattle. The Seahawks are his favorite team. Everytime he hears the word "Seattle" his face brightens up.
25. His favorite foods are spinach and broccoli. He really savors his food. Lauren says that when the rest of her class enjoyed socializing during lunch, Thomas would be savoring each bite with a huge smile on his face! He adored having his aunt for a teacher this year!
26. He likes his food hot and his drinks cold. Not a big fan of lukewarm anything.
27. He talks about God a lot. He loves God and always puts him first. When he's counting he'll say "God, 0, 1, 2, 3..." and he'll say his favorite people are "God, Buddy, Mommy, Daddy, Emmy, etc."
28. He has been blessed with very sweet friends.
29. He is incredibly loving to Mary Beth and me. He calls us "his grills".
30. I would bet that he is the messiest eater on the planet. After each meal, there is a heap of food on the table, under the table, on his clothes, and around his mouth.
31. Every time he has the ball in any sport he has played, he giggles during the entire posession.
32. One of his biggest quirks is that he is extremely literal. I can't ever generalize in his presence. There have been countless times that I have called his sport "baseball" only to get a funny expression from Thomas, "You mean T-Ball?" I can't say "We will leave in a few mintues". He wants to know exactly how many minutes. I could give a hundred examples of this, but if I told him that, he would say, "You mean one hundred?"
33. We call him "Thomas", "T", "Sweet T", "T-sters", "T-Bone", "Tom Tom", "T-man", and "Thomas O'Baumas".
34. He love to rhyme. I will say, "It's time for bed." He will say, "Bed chicken dead!"
35. Thomas likes everything to be fair. He walked in and told me that he had to have exactly 35 things just like Emmy.