Phillip is 8

Phillip is such a joy. He always has a warm glow in those brown eyes...sometimes a mischievous gleam. He loves chocolate sandwiches, tacos, cinnamon cereal, chips, and fruit. This kid constantly talks about farts, poop, and burps, like constantly. He has crazy phrases like: mango bagels he uses as responses. Phillip loves Legos, books (even though it is harder to read than others his age), stuffed animals, and comfy clothes.

After his baptism interview he reported that his heart felt all warm...and yes...he knew that meant the Holy Ghost was in his heart. Later that evening he explained to Everett: in order to get baptized you have to answer all these questions with true or false answers. If you answer incorrectly you won't get baptized. Everett was worried he would not be able to answer the questions and asked for some hints. Phillip was quite cryptic in return.

He got a three piece suit for this birthday. A couple days later Phillip asked when his own bottle of cologne was coming, since of course that was part of dressing up on Sunday. I had no idea! He is all ready for his big day with a new suit and scriptures of his own. We are so proud of this young man. He does have his struggles with paying attention, completing tasks, hatred towards work, and possibly some learning disabilities. He is making progress so that is good.

We love our stinky, farty, compassionate boy. We are as surprised as you that he made it to age 8. May he make the next 8 years as well. Ha ha ha

He measured about 49.5 inches tall (34.4 %) and weighs about 66 lbs (82.6 %) at home.