Knox Lister Fitzwater, you are quite the kid! Daddy thinks you are my favorite=) But I don't have favorites, I love all three of you equal, you do seam to get away with the most, and make me laugh the most. A few things about you:
Knox is LOVED by everyone that has anything to do with him. I've been told by primary teachers, preschool teachers, and everyone else he is the nicest most well behaved kid in the entire class. I love hearing this. He is really a sweetheart. I've seen kids come up and demand things of him and from him, and he is always so nice. His preschool teachers love him! and constantly tells me things about him, and of course they use his "accent" when they tell me! (he sounds British) He has never gotten in trouble and moved off the smiley face in school. One of the only kids. I think he would die of a broken soul if he ever did.
I love being in primary with him. He is so cute, and so proud I am his mommy. He constantly tells everyone Im his mom.
Whenever he doesn't want something I give him, or want to do something I ask of him, he always says "But I still Yuv (love) you mommy!"
He has the cutest dang little face ever! His little rosy cheeks, with specks of freckles on them! Everyday I kiss those little cheeks.
He is very righteous...If that's the right word. He has no tolerance for "bad things" When you talk about Satan or other bad people, he gets so uncomfortable that its visible, and says "I DONT like saying that name!" He loves Jesus, and gets very motivated to choose the right during family home evening and other things, it is so cute and funny. He will make a good missionary. He also asked me yesterday when he was going to get those "things" I wear, cuz he needs that protection. (garments)
He wakes Rye up, bawling and yelling, that "He needs a Bless'in so bad!" poor Rye ends up having to take him in the living room, half asleep, and give him a "blessing" (aka, say prayers with him) it happens to often! haha.
He also always gets into religious debates with random strangers, and I even caught him talking about getting the priesthood power when he turns eight! His poor buddy didn't have a clue what he was talking about, and I had to correct him later=)
Knox is also very into the news. I always have to answer a million questions about Obama, Ebola, tornadoes, ISIS, you name it, he is concerned.....very concerned.
He has a HUGE imagination! He is constantly playing. He tells Holden what to say, even if Holden is reading a book and not at all paying attention, he still plays along. "Holden say, Commander retreat to the falcon!" ...and Holden will say it. Then Knox talks for about 12 other characters in his pretend land! It is funny.
He has the major case of "stranger dangers" He is so scared of bad guys, and getting stolen. I have ot be really careful what I say to him and warnings I give to him, because he wont go outside somedays. He gets bad anxiety that he will get stolen! It makes me nuts. And If Holden goes without him, he will cry, please dont go Ho, please! Holden could care less of course, and so Knox ends up running to his room and saying a prayer every 10 minutes Holden is gone, asking for Holden to stay safe. Its kinda cute, yet kinda sad at the same time, haha!
As good as he is everywhere else is as bad as he is at home! He can be so sassy and stubborn. Rye and him but heads really bad. Some thing as simple as asking him to put his shoes in his room turns into a full blown fight. Bed time is the worst! He does not give in either. He ends up getting his toys taken away, sometimes a spanking, you name it! But he does not care, and wont give up....not to mention he still sneaks into bed with us around 3am.
Although he is SOOOoo shy he does things like sings in front of our entire ward! He just sang I love to see the temple. Everyone was so impressed with him. It was super cute.
He was SO fun during wrestling season. This kid knows how to work his bottom off. I've never seen a kid work as hard as he did. There was a practice where he live wrestled boys Holden's age and size the whole time, and if I'm there he tries so hard, I think to impress me. But they were just beating the crap out of him, they had been live wrestling for almost an hour. And this poor little boy was soaked in sweat, and shaking he was so tired. Its hard watching your kid suffer, but I also know how good it is for them. The kid knox was wrestling towards the end had his whole family there cheering for him and coaching him. So he was freaking out and super out of control, and crying and screaming the whole time out of anger. ... Trying to kill Knox, But Knox never let him win, and worked so hard, there was a few times his eyes starting rolling back in his head from exhaustion, but he refused to get pinned. These boys were so much bigger than him to. Finally this kid was screaming so loud everyone in the gym stopped and started watching Knox and him wrestle, when the coach finally decided to break it up. And came over to calm the kid down, like I said he was trying to kill Knox! The coach says "Cooper why are you crying and screaming!" And before the kid could answer Knox who was an inch from having a breakdown himself says "Hes just mad,,cuz Im kicking his butt.." and his little voice was just shaking and he kept pausing to catch his breath so he wouldn't cry! It was so funny and sad. And trust me Knox is the farthest thing from a bully, but he wont put up with kids being jerks. He is never mean like that and I usually would have freaked on him for saying something like that, but I wanted to freak out on his parents and grandparents for provoking that poor kid. (parents are crazy!) I was so proud to be Knox's mom! He is one tough kid! Yet still such a sweet little mommy's boy!
We love you Boozy! And appreciate the corky little boy that you are.
