No Two Flakes Alike: 8 is Great for Deacon Jett

A bit about Deacon at age 8! Woot!

Deacon is in 2nd grade this year and loves school. He has the funny, quirky, always teaching fun facts: Mr. Reed. Deacon LOVES Mr. Reed. He's in there with his best friends Hudson Bankhead and Kayden Kendall. They're the cutest little buddies!

Kayden, Deacon and Hudson in the lunchroom at school.

Deacon still kind of drums to his own beat. He's not interested in any sports, although he did enjoy golf lessons with Hudson the last 6 weeks. I made him try basketball and while, from the looks of his face, he seemed to enjoy it, he says he never wants to do it again. I think he doesn't like the competition aspect of it. He really doesn't like being "made" to do things. Such as ride a bike. He's 8 years old and WON'T ride a bike! He got one for his birthday that he'll "train" on for five minutes a day when we make him, but he seems to have no interest in riding.

What he is super into is video games, board games, Pokemon, Avengers, reading pretty much anything, eating pretty much anything, computers, basic coding and magnets.

One thing about Deacon is he doesn't need other people to validate him or make him happy. If we're somewhere and he wants to do something fun like go off a diving board or anything like that, he doesn't need anyone to go with or watch him. He does it for the sheer joy of it. He also HATES having his picture taken. Look closely and you'll see the tears through the fake smile. ha.

Deacon wanted an Avengers party for his birthday and since he hasn't had a big friend party in a couple years we invited a bunch of boys! We played "villain smash", "don't touch the kryptonite", "Pin the shield on Captain America," Silly string fight, ate pizza and cupcakes and went bananas!

We had the party on a Friday night and company coming into town for the weekend for his baptism. It was a crazy weekend! Aaron's parents (mountain grandma and grandpa) came for almost two weeks. My parents and Lynzi's family came for the weekend. They got there in time for the end of Deacon's party. Stephen and Kim came for the baptism. It was a whirlwind weekend for sure!

My favorite thing about Deacon is probably how loving and affectionate he is. When he's excited or happy he can't stop hugging and kissing everyone. He'll just randomly walk up to me and give me a big hug or kiss, it's so sweet. My least favorite thing is when he "hulks out". This is what we call it when he gets too hungry and he goes from sweet Deacy to Hulk in like 2 seconds! haha. Give the boy a sweet and salty nut, stat!