It’s Tommy’s 8th birthday! He’s such a pleasant young man. He’s clearly inherited his parents’ bookish tendencies, reading anything and everything in sight. Usually when Derek starts to read something aloud to the kids, Tommy gets impatient and finishes it off on his own before the next evening. His most recent reads are the Great Brain series, The Hobbit, and James and the Giant Peach, and he’s constantly rereading the Paddington books and Chronicles of Narnia. He also loves reading all sorts of nonfiction about outer space. So glad this kiddo is a bookworm!
Tommy will patiently read to his little sisters or set up dolls or girl legos for them or even help them get their dolls dressed, but he is definitely a boy’s boy. He spends a lot of time practicing ground balls in the driveway and drawing pictures, comics, and story illustrations, mostly featuring sports figures and his own invented superheroes. He says that his current ambition is to be a comic book illustrator/writer.
And now that Derek is home and I have internet again, here are a few pictures from today!
Uncle Matthew makes sure he gets masculine presents that shoot things, to Tommy’s great delight!
The girls got him balls to replace all the ones he’s lost over the neighbor’s fence.
In addition to the traditional EIGHT books (one for each year!), we got him his very own Bible. Elizabeth was impressed.