Happy Birthday, Tiger...

Ace Face is FIVE today!

This adventurous, loud, happy, imaginative, athletic, funny kiddo

is without a doubt one of my favorite parts of being a mama.  

He has his own STRONG opinions and wills of steel - but he is also the snuggliest, sweetest little love of all the land.  Just be sure to catch him during one of his good moments -- which thankfully out weight the others.  :)

At five years old, Ace is obsessed with all things "big jungle cats".

If it has to do with a tiger, a lion or a cheetah - color him happy.  We're going on over a year with this obsession and now that I've seen him in his element - I hope it never ends.

His favorite color is "tiger colors".

He loves soccer, wrestling, parades, lizards, and sharks.

And he wants to be a T-Rex OR a tiger for Halloween.

And a "baby tiger feeder" OR a "wrestler" when he grows up.

Ace loves to play.  He has lots of friends and his brothers adore being with him.  He even asks the older boys in the hood "if they want to play with him" on a regular basis... 

Bless their 12-year-old patient hearts. 

 Ace loves carrots and strawberries and avocado toast and macaroni and cheese.  He will also settle for a chocolate chip cookie or a cookie with frosting if there aren't any veggies in the house.  He does not like anything cold.  No ice cream or popsicles for this dude.

 Acey loves school and seeing his friends at Miss Amy's.  He is a quick learner and an amazing little artist.  He writes with both his left and his right hands so when he writes as a lefty, he writes his name backwards... E-C-A.  When he writes as a righty, he writes it A-C-E.  

 We adore this fiery little rascal who is sometimes too smart for his own good.  He adds an element of surprise to our every day, and you never know who he has been "paying a visit" to in the neighborhood or if he even knocked on their door.  ;)

High FIVE to the cutest five-year-old in the Universe.  Love you, Ace.