Four Year Old Checkup

Ben is a growing boy! At his checkup last week he weighed in at about 40 pounds (79%) and was 42 ¼” tall (90%). He is now in a new amusement park ride category – ha ha! He got a great report at our visit and is right on track for a big four year old. The “bad news” of the visit was that it was time for booster shots. Ben had to get four of them (two in each leg). He was a trooper though and didn’t even cry. He was pretty sore afterward and had to walk “really really slow” and be carried up and down stairs. He also announced to his teacher that he couldn’t “play chase” on the playground for a couple of days. The best news is that there are no more scheduled shots until he is eleven.

Interview with a Four-Year-Old

Mom thought it would be fun to get some thoughts from our newly turned four year old. Here is the "interview".

What is your name?

Ben McCullough

How old are you?

4

What is your favorite color?

Red and blue and gold

What is your favorite toy?

Trains

What is your favorite TV show?

Phineas and Ferb (Mom wants to clarify that he does love this show, but the results of this interview were skewed because we had just finished watching an episode.)

What is your favorite food?

Strawberries

Who are your friends?

Kelsey

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Fireman

What is the best present you got?

Go Diego Go car set

Tell me how you celebrated your birthday.

I celebrated by having a dinosaur cake.

How tall are you now?

4! Is that “so big” Mom?

What can you do now that you are four?

I can do my shirt by myself. (Before the question was fully understood, Ben’s answer was that he now knew the meaning of the word “nocturnal” because he was four.)

What is your favorite part of school?

Playing outside with Kelsey.

Is there anything else you want to tell me about being four?

I like being four!

Race for the Cure 2010

The kids did great at Race for the Cure this year. There were lots of "prizes" aka giveaways at the tents that were exciting and Ben "won" the McCullough Family altered Fun Run route. You can't beat that! It was all due to his special bandana. He told us that fast people wore their bandanas like that and cool people wore there bandanas like that and that he was both!