The Secret Life of an American S.A.H.M.: John at 7 years old

John Michael Allison is a 7 year old!

Here is a little about John and his amazing personality...

John's Favorites:

Color-"Green" he says. But everyday it's blue. :)
Animal-His cats Padme and McQueen, and big dogs. He would die to have one.
Sport-"Karate" (He's never tried real Karate but loves to watch) He has his first Basketball practice this week. I hope he loves it as much as Baseball....FFWD- he does love it! He had a great time with his team "Swag" playing Rookies Baseball. Team Tigers with his buddies.
Video Game-"LEGO Batman 2" he plays "The Amazing Spiderman" a lot too
TV Shows-Kickin' It!! Ninjago, Regular Show and Adventure Time- (which he only gets 1 a week now because I think they're too old for him,) Looney Tunes, Hotel Translvania, Wild Kratts, Imagination Movers, Charlie Brown, Lab Rats.
Movie-The Amazing Spiderman, We watched E.T. recently for a family movie night; John was extremely affected by this movie. When E.T. was dying, John bawled and could barely watch. The Avengers!! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: dog days!
Friends-Karsten, Ryder, Dylan, Joachim, Drew, Griffin.
School subject- "Math" he says. He excels at Reading. 80 words a minute in first semester 1st grade.
Food-French Fries, Pizza, Cheeseburgers
Candy-"Extreme" Sour candy, airheads
Dessert-chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin pie, cupcakes
Toys-LEGOS. Club Penguin! Puffles.
Books- he just got into Chapter books and LOVES Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He reads it at school in a silent circle with his friends.

A little more about Johnny and his personality...

John is a good, sweet boy, who cares immensely for other people. I think that is one of the best traits a person can have. John is doing great in school, with especially high marks in reading and behavior and friendships. Math, writing, music, science, art and the rest he is performing average or above average. Mostly, he enjoys recess and P.E. and Computer Lab. He talks about his friends at school everyday, and most days he tells me, "I made another friend!" On Tuesday he told me that his class was to get "A new kid. A boy whose name starts with a Z." Then he went on to tell me that he was worried this new boy would be nervous. He said he would say to him, "Hi, my name is John. Will you be my friend?" He talked about what he would say to this boy the entire 5 minute drive to school. When he got home from school, he was excited to tell me that Mrs. Soucy asked John to show the new boy where the bathroom was. It was a long and detailed story! He was so proud to have helped him.

John wakes up early everyday. He does not need an alarm clock; unlike his dad and brother. I set it for 7am and 9 times out of 10 he is up in the TV room playing Wii, or lying in bed waiting for me to come in. He is a morning person and is ready to get dressed and eat and tackle the day. When John returns home from school he is always ready to play with his brother. They love to play Wii games together. John and Jake get along great. They fight every so often but they know I'll freak out when they do so a lot of the time I'll hear them yelling at each other and then John will say, 'ok, ok! I'm sorry I'm sorry! Don't let mom hear you cry'...etc. And then they work it out, move on and are happy again. John can be a little you-know-what to Jake sometimes, but mostly he takes care of him. Every time he has a little treat or art or prize that he brings home from school he always gives it to Jake (unless Hailey gets it first:) This is a big gesture from a boy who loves his candy. On Halloween he had suckers and play- doh and tattoos from school, and gave them all to Jake.

Speaking of Halloween, this year John was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. We got the costume a couple years ago from Linda; who knew that the Ninja Turtles would make a comback? He went Trick-or-Treating with Dad, Jake, Jacob, Mia, and Miss Jennifer.

On John's 7th Birthday, the Martinez Family came over for Pizza and Cake. The kids had lots of fun. So did the grown-ups! We have a couple friend for the first time here in Washington and it is very cherished:) The next day, Killian and Angie came over for more pizza and more cake and more fun. John was in heaven. For weeks, John's bottom tooth has been loose. I'd been begging him for a couple days to pull it out because it was very ready. But he was not. Grammy sent him the cutest little tooth fairy pillow. A bat; John named him Dre. (After the Karate Kid.) John is so in love with Dre. He sleeps with him nightly and talks to him. When Killian was over, they were wrestling, or pillow-fighting, or both and Killian hit John with a pillow which forced him to push his tooth with his tongue and out came the little toothy! They ran downstairs to tell us and John was so happy and proud; he said he didn't feel a thing! Then he dropped the tooth and me and Angie spent 10 minutes on hands and knees searching for it on the jute rug. It was a needle in a haystack. The tooth fairy came on November 3rd, 2012 for the first time! John got a dollar in his little bat's wing. He was so happy.

John is my sushine. I feel sometimes I am too hard on him. I just want him to be a good boy; which he is. He is sweet, loving, generous, kind, thoughtful, smart, funny, silly, sensitive, grateful, and affectionate. He still obsesses over weird things. But when he is done obsessing, he's done. Pokemon cards, Money, whatever it may be, he will constantly talk about it and then one day he is just over it. He's a little forgetful sometimes and not organized at all. The task of putting dirty clothes in the hamper is like torture for him. He can never find anything, even when it's in front of his face. He's sometimes clumsy and always moving moving moving and flaling about. It drives me nuts. I'm always telling him stop tipping your chair, stop kicking the wall, stop climbing the couch, stop knocking everything over...etc. All these flaws are balanced out by his sweetness. I don't know what I would do without him. He brings joy to my heart. He is so very loved by me. I could cry just thinking of how much I love and adore my son. My sun. My Johnny.