ELEVEN!!

While I still call him Middle-bug I guess he is quickly becoming more of a Middle-man.  Gunnar turned 11 today!  Yesterday (also Mother’s Day) he played in a baseball tournament and batted 1.000% with 5 times at bat (4 hits, 1 walk). It was pretty fun to watch especially since the moms got to choose the walk up songs and Gunnar’s was Baby Got Back (aka “I like big butts”).  They won one game and lost another but everyone played so well.  The afternoon ended with his teammates singing Happy Birthday to him.  

Today his day was full of gifts and love sent from friends and family along with lunch at school with me and Rich, a scavenger hunt for presents, the first practice for summer swim, his requested dinner of steak and mashed potatoes and his favorite mint chip cream cake (barely got that one done in time).   Oh…and he lost a tooth!  It’s been a full day!  Does the tooth fairy leave more money when it’s a birthday tooth?  

Gunnar is still kind and caring and has become quite funny and clever.  He is good at math, likes helping with projects especially if they involve demo or machinery or trucks, enjoys building legos, loves playing baseball and loves being with friends.  He has a neighborhood full of buddies, several friends in class and still keeps in touch with a handful of his best Evanston pals.  He says he will be a truck driver when he grows up and honestly I think that profession will be in serious consideration for a long time.  Gunnar just really loves trucks and the idea of driving them across the country.    

To me, eleven feels like a big year for him.  He has grown in so many ways over the last year and in just a few months he will be off to middle school.  Maybe by the time that happens I will have posted a few more updates.  Maybe. 

This is 11…..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUNNAR!!! We love you to the moon and back.