Letters to Hope

So it has been a little while since I wrote and I have lots to add.

Your birthday was a GREAT hit and everything turned out wonderfully. Besides the fact that the night before the party you where filled up with sugar and UP until 2 AM running around like a wild woman, which of course stressed me out like crazy because I thought you where going to be super cranky and mean. But you weren’t you where a perfect angel.

We picked up the balloons and the cake and all the stuff for the party and Gamma and Mema watched you while Chee Chee and I went to the park to set up.

The clown arrived just in time and shortly after you showed up with your Elmo shirt on and a big smile. At first you where wondering what as going on and the clown freaked you out a little but very quickly you got into it and where dancing around like a wild woman. You loved the clown and even let her paint your face.

Lucas and Jack from next door came and so did Dominic from down the street. Plus a couple of other kids who where already in the park. I had set up the party so that all the kids in the park could attend. We had Pizza and cupcakes with whipped cream and apple juice, water, and yoo-hoo.

You received a couple gifts from different people but the biggest gift of all was from all the grand parents and us. A BIG swing set for the back yard. It has a slide and three swings and a playhouse on top with a sandbox under it. It is really big and takes up a good part of the yard. For now it is in the middle of the yard, one day when we get a pool we will have to move it, but for now it is great. It has taken quite awhile for Uncle Tommy and Gampa to set it up as of today it is still not done, but that is ok when it is done you will LOVE it.

On Easter Gamma and I took you to an Easter Egg Hunt. Again at first you where a little hesitant and it took you a little while to realize what the point was, plus there where A LOT of people there but after awhile you got it and loved it. They had a lot of actives’ for all the kids and you played all afternoon. Later on they had a ballet in a building near by and you loved it. The music they where dancing to was The Little Mermaid which you got for your birthday. We still have not watched it because of course you are still focused on Pictures of Hope.

You have been growing in leaps and bounds again and are talking like a mad woman, every day you say more and more and 90% of the time you try really hard to repeat everything we are saying. This means we have to be very careful not to curse. (Which is a good thing.) You are also VERY strong and try to climb everything. There is a new park near by and you climb the rock wall like a six year old. You have no fear in climbing and are constantly saying “I do it… I do it” the past two weeks you have become OBSESSED with my armpit and it is killing me, but I think this also means that you will so be becoming very independent and it freaks you out a little. You still have the night nights and are also obsessed with those as well. One day I will take them away and you will be SOOOO upset with me. HA but you can’t be 20 and still have a night night.

I am very excited about your school next year. It is still very far away but I think you are going to do great in school. It is odd to think that in a few short months you will be talking completely and will be able to tell me anything and everything you want. To think that only two short years ago you where in my belly and not able to do anything and now you are telling me what to do in your own Martian language and soon will be saying it in words that I will really understand. It is crazy to think that my beautiful little girl is just getting sooo big. When you are an adult you will realize that time flies and although I have not changed much at all in this time (besides losing all that baby weight thank god) you have changed in amazing ways and will keep changing for a very long time. Becoming a strong independent confident beautiful person who I can not imagine loving any more then I already do. You are amazing.