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Friday, June 28, 2013

Letters to My Sons - June

Another month has passed and it is time for the next installment in the blog circle of "Letters to Our Children". I am again excited to share with you moments of our lives as captured through words and photographs. Please follow the link at the bottom to see what my other talented friends have been recorded as well.

June has been a big month for us. The start of summer. Busyness and adventure. A trip to Idaho to see your uncle graduate. Getting a taste of rural as compared to our ever urban lives. Our first camping trip of the year with some of our best friends. Exploring the beaches at low tide. Tending the garden. More flights, more family. Long and lovely days filled with sunshine. Bring on summer!

#1 - My big boy. My how you are changing. You are taking on your brother's love for super heroes and now can't get enough of spiderman. As usual, you are crafting your own play. You are never far from a rope or a piece of string, for these items, you use for webs. You are trying your hardest to scale every surface in the house from the cabinets to the refrigerator with your sticky feet. I even had to buy some new underwear for you...of course, the spiderman kind!

#2 My little one. I love your cuddles, your hugs, your kisses. When either your papa or I need to leave, you are insistent on getting your hug and kiss (maybe a couple) no matter what you are doing. You have started calling me your "lovely mama" which melts my heart every time. Your sweetness, your pureness...well, it just exudes from you. You are like your papa; genuine.

As sweet as you can be, you are serious about this superhero business. For your 3rd birthday, you got a superhero puzzle book. It was by far your favorite gift. You study it. You memorize it. You have learned the stories behind the characters. You pretend to be the characters. You even tried to color yourself with a green marker to turn yourself into the incredible hulk. Too bad I forgot the camera on that one!

I love watching the relationship between the two of you grow. You are brothers to the core. You are each other's best friends. You play together, you wrestle each other, you teach each other...you fight with each other. I even secretly enjoy when you plot together for it shows me how well you can work together to accomplish a task. I hope that you will always have this closeness throughout your lives.

I love both of you more than the moon and the stars in the sky!

XOXO,

Mama

Next stop in this blog circle, the extremely talented Nicole Herda.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Letter to My Sons - May

Another month has gone and I am excited to be a part of this continued blog circle where some very creative friends are writing letters and documenting their children with photos.

What a big month May is for us, and will always be. Both of you have birthdays, and this year you are turning 5 and 3. I can't help but think that time is going too fast. Before my very eyes you are changing and growing by leaps and bounds.

My first born, how have five years passed since I first met you? It as if you have always been here, and now, I do not know life without you. You are literally growing on me and I have trouble keeping up with your food demands. You have always been such a funny and picky eater, and now is no different. You now want a particular cereal and will eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner...AND snack. I recently had the conversation with you about needing to eat a variety of foods and your response was, "I love it. I just can't stop thinking about it... I can't get it outta my head!" Then, the sly grin peaked out. These little obsessions will too pass, but what I am falling in love with, is your sense of humor. You are telling me jokes and making me laugh on a daily basis. I wish I could bottle your giggles, but since I can't, I will forever keep them close to my heart.

Your fifth birthday was fantastic. We spent the day getting breakfast at the local dive (per your request), playing at the beach, taking a nature walk, and of course, getting ice cream. You also had a construction party with lots of building and digging involved. This included "digging in the dirt"cupcakes complete with gummy worms.

You are insightful and I am so proud of how you are solving problems on your own. So much so, you are already preparing yourself for adulthood! One day you kept bossing your brother around. I finally intervened and at one point, I asked you who made the rules for him. Your response was: "I don't make the rules. You make the rules mama. I am practicing for when I am older. Everyone needs to practice, right?" You were not joking on this one, but rather, completely serious. I couldn't let you see, but I was grinning from ear to ear on the inside!

My second born, in a few short days, you will turn three. How can that be? I have just finished going through some of your earlier photos and a long trip down memory lane. You are pretty much potty trained and I love to hear you say, "I don't need those diapies anymore!"Sometimes you hate to wash your hands and you repeatedly ask me if you need to do this chore after going on the potty. One day I asked you if you liked to wash your hands and your response totally cracked me up. You said, "I like to run away and say... OOPS, I forgot!"

You love to play superhero in the house and put your cape one and fly around. You use your amazing memory for learning all of the Marvel superheros and their special powers. Your inner daredevil is shining these days. You have started to do tricks on your scooter. I am not sure where you come up with this stuff, but frankly, I am frightened and delighted. Can you be both of those things together? Maybe the fright has just worn off and now I think it is cute. You started by riding sideways, then moved to hooking your leg around the stem, and now jump with both feet in the air and land back on the base...all while moving. You are talented and sure footed and have way more courage than I think I ever have had. X games, here we come!