Okay. I begin every one of these birthday posts with a "I can't believe my baby is..." (insert the age). But guys. This one is LITERALLY the last one before teenage years. It's so surreal to think back to how I started this blog when I was struggling with infertility, and not knowing how my journey to becoming a mother would go. Now I have a 12-year-old. I cannot. Cannot even BEGIN to describe how grateful I am.
Sutton is the coolest kid. He loves cats, dogs, raccoons, playing the trumpet, playing soccer, swimming, Minecraft, YouTube, 3D printing, being with friends, playing with his brother, being silly, Legos, space, and so much more that I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Here he is with the current favorite cat: Apollo.
Sutton is kind and caring. He genuinely cares about people's feelings and will go out of his way to make someone happy.
Sutton and Ren are two peas in a pod even though they are very different! They literally do everything together (even sleep together since it's summer!). They play Minecraft, build legos, build foam forts, film YouTube videos, watch TV, and just hang out together. Obviously that also comes with a lot of little arguments and nitpicking at each other...but I'm so glad they have each other.
Sutton is so smart. He got all As this year! He says he wants to be a NASA scientist. I tell him that's fine, as long as he doesn't move away from me ha! Not sure how that's going to work.
During the school year, Sutton gets up at 7:15am and goes to bed at 8:30pm. Now that it's summer, we make the boys go down to Sutton's room around 9pm and they usually sleep in til 8 or 9.
He is currently swimming in his second summer of swim team for our local town. Even though he moved up an age group from last summer, he still has been rocking the breath stroke/breaststroke. He got first place at the first meet this year!
He played his first season of club soccer this fall. It was rough, but not just for him - the team was playing up and didn't win a single game til the very last one! He has decided that he loves playing goalkeeper so that is his passion now. He has been taking goalie lessons from his favorite Wichita Wings player Steven Hammersky, who just so happens to be friends with Sutton's dad.
Sutton began playing trumpet this past year at school. He has a natural talent for it! He will decide on a song he wants to learn and then figure out the notes himself, write them on a piece of paper, and play it for us. He's amazing. While his classmates were playing Hot Cross Buns at the band concert this spring, they saved Sutton's solo til last and he played Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Amazing!
He will generally eat a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast in the summer and on weekends. During school, I make him have something a bit more substantial and he usually has an egg sandwich. Sometimes peanut butter toast. He's not as big of a fan of sandwiches for lunch as his little bro, but he would love a cheeseburger, Mac n cheese, pepperoni pizza, fish sticks, or PB&J.
He still loves to read and is in between series at the moment. I am reading Harry Potter to Ren this summer and Sutton always listens too, even though he's been through the series twice already (first time with me reading, second time reading it on his own).
Sutton knows every word to every country song that comes on the radio. Listening to too much country music with his dad.
Sutton is obsessed with Pokemon cards. Like, obsessed. He trades at school all the time with his friends and has been through several different binders, trying to find the one he likes best. He's always talking about "shinys," "evolutions," or "shadow..."-something that I don't remember.
Sutton had some school friends over for slip n slide time, water balloons, pizza, and ice cream cake for his party this year. They had lots of fun!
And here's the birthday videos, we had an interruption so we had to pause filming and break it into two videos.
