Everyone needs a big brother, and I am so happy my younger kids have such a good one. Caio is such a good kid. He talks a lot about how important it is for him to teach the younger kids how to be good or to do something he is already good at doing. He isn't perfect--he really isn't even very close :-), but he is good. There is a lot to be said about the word good.
I also love how much he wants to be bigger even though he is still so young. He is always talking about how much he wants to go to work with Daddy and earn money for our family. He refers to things as being a little boy and when he gets big enough to go to work. He wears his future missionary badge he got from his grandma to church every week with pride. He wants to serve a mission because his daddy did. He saw a missionary picture of my husband on his back with his head, arms and legs in the air, so Caio does that pose every couple of days and says he is practicing so he can be a good missionary.
Recently, when Marcio told him he couldn't play the Wii, he came to me and said, with a deep sigh, "Daddy won't let me play the Wii..." I just nodded and said that maybe that was for the best. His response was, "I can't believe he would tell me that! I just can't believe he said 'No.' All I wanted was to play for a little bit." He was so serious I wanted to laugh. The whole thing was too cute. He wasn't getting angry or being beligerent, he was just trying to share his frustrations, so I let him know that it was okay to feel that way, as long as he obeyed and was nice about it. Then he looked at me and said, "Mom?" "Yes?" "What does believe mean?" It was so funny. I explained it and then he began to laugh and we talked about other things.
At his last dentist appointment a few weeks ago, the dentist told me Caio had a loose tooth. Then he explained to Caio that he has a grown up tooth coming in to replace the one that was falling out. After that Caio started refusing to use plastic silverware because he said he needs to use "grown-up" spoons and forks, because he thinks he is almost grown up now that his grown-up teeth are coming in. Since then his first tooth fell out. The Tooth Fairy gave him a whole dollar! I only ever got a quarter for my teeth. I told him there must have been a mistake and offered to trade my quarter for his dollar.... he didn't take me up on that. ;-D
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When I told my parents my tooth fell out and that I needed to get $1 from the tooth fairy, they just laughed at me... Said I was too big to believe in fairies!!!
When I was driving Jordan and Caio to my mom's house last weekend, I asked them what they wanted to be when they grow up. Caio said he wants to be a house and Jordan said she wants to be a monkey :) then Caio changed his mind and said that he wants to be Daddy, and the was very serious, which melted my heart :)
What a sweet grown-up boy! Thanks for posting!
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