Quinnie Blue at 5 . . .
- cheers for the Cubs and the Cardinals
- wears his baseball glove and rubber rain boots
- has lost his first tooth
- wears pajamas during the day
- coaches Will - "Throw your catcher's mask down." "Keep your eye on the ball and smack it out of the park."
- does slow motion instant replays in the family room during Cardinals games
- adores his Nana
- pretends to be a zookeeper and holds a variety of (plastic) animals for the visitors to touch
- will be celebrating his birthday on the train for the second year
- loves his Grandma
- often roots for the other team
- lives up to his nickname "Contrary Quinn"
- usually spends his money, but is saving his birthday money for Mizzou wear
- loves grilled cheese, bagels with cream cheese, ham on dollar rolls, italian chicken, and chili
- watches "scary PG movies"
- snuggles with his Daddy
- speaks much clearer thanks to hard work with Miss Dawn
- likes the numbers eighty-nine and one thousand five hundred
- says "I'm serious!", "Oh, brother!", and "God blessed."
- draws pictures of monsters
- talks about Africa
- showers independently
- favors blue and yellow, and more recently pink has become a favorite color
- cheers quietly "Let's Go Cubs!" to strangers
- studies animals specifically big cats, horses, and birds of prey
- collects bird feathers
- prefers songs performed by "a girl and a boy"
- chooses Poppleton, Frog & Toad, and The Berenstain Bears for bedtime stories
- checks out non-fiction animal books at the library
- counts backwards
- enjoys the occasional afternoon bath
- weighs 66 pounds
- measures 44 inches
- chooses to wear the old frog boots with holes rather than the new monster boots
- pushes trains around the house
- fears Fredbird or any other large costumed character
- swims like a fish
- roots for Mizzou
- plays endless games of UNO
- wakes before everyone else and immediately wakes Grandma so they can "chat"
- needs lots of time to unwind before falling asleep at night
- cooks himself an "egg burrito supreme" for breakfast
- still squeezes into his beloved 4T/5T monkey costume
- buys bouncy balls at Dierbergs and and hard plastic Schleich animals at Target
- rhymes words
- counts everything: shadows on the wall, cars in the parking lot, fish in the creek . . .
- wants to fly like an owl
- asks to have a horse
- plays his "violin"
- builds animal habitats with tinkertoys, legos, and lincoln logs
- can be super silly and quite entertaining
- performs original songs such as "My Horses Got in Trouble"
- loves fun socks
- switches between his bug hat and Cubs' "Luck of the Irish" hat
- has his own sense of fashion and tie dye paired with plaid is in style
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