Our little buddy is just days away from turning 5. The birthday party prep is happening right now---though thankfully it’s minimal since we’re having it NOT at our house. 
The teachers at his school have always said that young kids go through some behavior challenges and just kind of a turbulent time in the weeks before and after a birthday. It’s on their minds…a lot. Coleman talks about being almost 5 all.the.time. I have a couple little Colemanisms to share from our “almost 5 year old.”
He climbed up on my lap as I was sitting in a recliner in the living room, so I put my arms around him.
C: (big grin) “You can hug on me.”
M: “Can I kiss on you too?” (Kissing his ear.)
C: “Yeah you can hug and kiss on me all you want cause you're my mama!” (The boy knows what a girl likes to hear.)
At the yogurt shop, we were talking about what kind of birthday cake or pie he wanted as we celebrated with Nana and Papa G this weekend. He had already told his daddy that he wanted “minty chocolate” cake. Cole is a little obsessed with “minty chocolate” gum and asks for it all the time. However, I had all the stuff for lemon pie and really just wanted to make that for the family.
M: “You like lemon pie don't you buddy?”
C: “I do but I don't want that. I just want minty chocolate cake.”
M: “Mommy doesn't know how to make that though.”
C: (grinning) “Well, you can just look online and figure it out!!”
And what did I do, I looked online and figured it out! And made a lemon pie, too!
And one day last week I took a few hours off of work in the morning to let him sleep in and then take him to breakfast at McDonald’s. A sweet elderly man sitting in a booth near us told me “You sure have a pretty boy there. He has an angel face!” I agreed As we were driving to his school, Coleman declared to me: “Mommy, you’re gonna get a tardy slip, I know it!”
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