Eason, Hayes & Kate Ross http://murphree5.blogspot.com/

Well we have had another birthday at our house.
Eason turned 7 on November 20.

"All About Eason"

Height: 4 feet
Weight: 49 lbs

Eason is such a neat child, and his daddy and I are so proud of him. As one of his Bible School teachers told me a couple of years ago, Eason is an old soul, and she was right. His little mind is always turning. He is quite the thinker and asks at least 350 questions daily, many of which I have to look up on the computer or just leave it at "I don't know", but for the most part we do our best to explain whatever he is curious about. He prefers to stay busy and the busier he is, the easier he is for me. You will rarely find him just watching TV. If he watches TV, he is doing something else at the same time, like building some kind of awesome creation with his legos (using instructions that I seriously cannot follow as an adult), drawing, word searches, puzzles..etc. He is doing very well in school (ALL A's!). He is a wonderful reader and with his love for math and building, I can easily see him following in his daddy's footsteps as an engineer. I took him to the library yesterday and he asked me to point him to the "fact books" (as he calls them). He spent the remainder of the time looking at this huge world Atlas and big encyclopedias--is he MY child? ;)
However, intellegence isn't all he has going for him. He has proven to be quite athletic and very well liked by his classmates. We are proud to be parents of such a well-rounded little boy.

Some "Eason Facts"
~He LOVES to play football and soccer
~He broke his collar bone this fall playing football with his daddy
~He can do some really cool bike tricks
~He has a short fuse...especially with his brother :(
~He is an amazing artist (have not a clue where he gets this since his daddy and I can barely draw a stick man)
~He is "wound tight" as his daddy said the other night when Eason was having a not-so-good moment
~He can be very serious, yet ridiculously silly
~He likes to know facts about geography, presidents, space, history..you name it (YES, he is my biological child:))
~He is very competitive
~His behavior at school has been excellent--has not had to pull a stick (their discipline system) all year
~He doesn't like superheroes or imaginary-type toys
~His favorite class at school is art
~He knows more scripture and Bible facts than I do (Huge shout out to Immanuel!)
~He seems to need alot of approval from us
~He still has alot of innocence to him--told me someone said a really bad word that started with "S". I gasped. Then told me it rhymed with "soup did"--STUPID--WHEW!!!
~He has trouble with patience
~He thinks everything has to perfect and often freaks when it is not.
~He is respectful and polite to adults
~He can be such a helper when I really need him to be
~He couldn't be more Type A Personality if he tried

Justin and I are both so proud to be Eason's parents. We thank God daily for this amazing gift He has given us, and we look forward to seeing what this next year holds for our precious first-born.