Drew is 5-My letter to My Boy!

To my favorite little guy-Drew,

We had so much fun celebrating your 5th birthday at Legoland this year! FIVE. I can hardly believe it. Five means big boy. Five means kindergarten next year. Five means no longer my baby. Bittersweet this turning 5 thing.

-you are such a good colorer. you love to color and you are VERY good at staying in all the lines.

-you are starting to read the BOB books, and you know all their letters and sounds. you try spelling and writing words all the time now.

-you are doing great in school this year, makes me sad you won't be in preschool after this year.

-you start our family prayer at dinner each night.

-we got you a new bike for your birthday and we are trying to convince you to let us take the training wheels off.

-you are a great t-ball player.

-you love playing games on your new iphone (mommy's old iphone)

-you LOVE playing UNO while having your bedtime milk and a snack

-you love to play with your light sabers and talk about the Star Wars movies.

-you recently taught yourself to whistle!

-you have figured out that you can't marry mommy or Camden. It was so cute to always hear you say that you were "going to marry Camden".

-MOST days you still take a nap.
-you love to negotiate to see just how far you can go or just how much you can get.
-you do some great flips on the swing set bar.
-you are getting better and better and telling time.
-you are so much fun to spend time with-you are the coolest, smartest, bestest 5 year old I know.

I love you my favorite little boy. I thank God for you every day.

love mommy

Camden is 3-My letter to My Girl

Sweet Camden Reese-

We had so much fun at your 3rd birthday party. All your sweet little girlfriends came for ice cream and candy and to celebrate YOU! You ate your ice cream cone till there was nothing left to drip out of it!

-you have become our little snuggler and I just LOVE it!

-you love looking at books

-You love Mrs. Clay and going to school with your friends

-you love eating snacks or anything with carbs (you are your daddy's little girl!)

-you get mad when you have to go to bed and Drew is still up

-you are particular about what shoes you wear (if I put on ones you didn't want that day, you take them off at school!)

-you love to be outside playing in the backyard with Drew or riding your tricycle out front

-you love to push your babies around the house in their stroller

-you love to "cook" at your kitchen.

-you point out the cows or horses every time we drive by their field, even if they are not outside that day.

-you follow your brother around the house all day trying to keep up with him.

-you and Drew fight over the same 2-3 toys each day. (we must not have enough around here!)

-you give your friends lots of hugs and kisses

-you love to practice your "table top" gymnastics move for an audience.

-you love to grab my hand to take me to what you need/want/want to show me (since you are still not a big talker)

You are our sweet Reesey Piecey Pie and we love every little piece of you sweet girl!

love mommy