Letters to our Sons > March

To my first baby Zachary,

We just celebrated your 6th birthday – SIX!!!  I can’t believe it.  I still haven’t forgotten the whole ordeal with your birth and assumed it was foreshadowing how difficult of a child you would be but you turned out to be the most sweetest, kindest boy I know.  We started off a on a rough note – I could never get you to sleep at night and your dad had to put you in the car seat and swing you back and forth for a good half hour, and then it was pins and needles to see if you would stay asleep for the transfer to your bassinet but that didn’t last too long  and you turned out to love your sleep time.  At 1pm everyday like clockwork you would go down for a three hour nap and wake up happy and ready for tummy time.  I never realized how lucky I was until I started comparing notes with other moms who didn’t have the luxury of a child who napped long.  By one years old you were telling us you were tired and going up to bed on your own before even giving us a chance to stand up.  How I giggled every time I saw you on the stairs waving good night to us.

Fast forward to today.  I bought you a PS3 and the Skylanders game for your birthday and Connor & I have lost your attention!  We must have about 40 skylander figures now. You beat the game without any help from me and just seemed to understand where to go and what to do…I would like to think you get that from me lol.   Your birthday was celebration has been crazy busy for us.  We had two parties, one with your school friends and then a sleepover with all your cousins.   You attempted to help me make your birthday cake but I never claimed to be a baker…I was very happy to capture the moment you were making a wish… and you know what you wished for?  All the money in the world so you can buy all the Skylanders, lol.  You dream big 😉

You recently went through a few weeks of being ‘aggressive’ with other kids at school.  I worry so much and we talk about it…you seem to understand and I hope it will not continue but maybe I need to step in sooner when you and Connor are play fighting.  You are both so strong and love to pretend you are superheroes and it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t realize that other kids may not play rough like you two do.  I am really looking forward to the spring so we can use up all that pent up energy you obviously have 🙂     Last summer we finally got you riding your bike…training wheel’s are still on but I can’t wait to get you out this spring and get those training wheels off.  I know you will do amazing, you were walking at nine months old and running down hills by the time you were one, laughing and smiling always.  You have beautiful smiling eyes, they sparkle when you laugh.  This image was taken last summer up at our vacation trailer… it was the first time I didn’t have to push you once or help you in any way.

You love the water.  I think you were a fish in a former life. We spend most every weekend at our trailer in the summer and it’s hard to get you out of the pool or lake.  I am buying an underwater video camera for this summer just so I can capture all these amazing moments with you.

In the fall of 2012  I asked you a bunch of questions and I sat you down last month and asked you these same questions again, and found it so neat to see how your answered them this time, clearly showing how you’ve grown and matured but laughed my ass off at your answer to the first question.

I’ll end this one by saying the same thing we say to each other before bed:  I love you more than anything, everywhere and everytime.

Love Mommy xox

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