Dear Noah and Zoë,

I have failed miserably in keeping up with your monthly letters.  I love the idea of doing it and I love having these little memories captured…but I am busy w/school, work, teaching, parenting, exercising, parenting, and wifing.  There just isn’t enough time in the day.  I will try to do a better job, but from now on–I will write one letter.  I know that seems kind of harsh and unfair–but in my own defense your milestone days each month are only 4 days apart and its tough, so you’ll just have to share with each other.  Deal with it and discuss it behind my back later…

So much has happened and changed and I am amazed at how much you both have grown.  Noah you have done such a great job at getting potty trained.  You still are wearing pull-ups most days to daycare but you never go in them and it’s awesome.  I have to tell you how much I appreciate not having to change your diaper.  You have made a new best friend in your neighbor Dayton.  The two of you have spent the last two weekends playing together all day in both her yard and ours.  You run around naked together–enjoy it while you can as that will have to change someday–and play in the kiddie pools and in the sand box and last weekend the two of you laid naked–bare butts up–in the sun on white towels–I have a picture but won’t post it here–looking so precious and cute.  Your vocabulary just keeps expanding and I am forever pleased and surprised by you ability to use language so very correctly and in ways that are beyond your age. 

Zoë have also grown and changed so much.  I have a hard time believing you haven’t even been home for a year yet (it’s coming up soon) because I really have a hard time remember what life was like without you.  You fit so seamlessly into our family and with Noah that it just feels as though you have always been part of our lives.  You are developing into a fireball of opinion, wants and needs with all of those things getting confused together.  You are talking and have words for many of the things that you want and if you don’t have a word for it you scream a little until I follow you and you can show me what it is.  You have become fascinated with Yo Gabba Gabba and you carry your little Foofa (so have no idea how to spell that) doll and ask to watch-“gagga gagga.” Its cute and you sit in your little arm chair with your hand down your pants and watch and you then get up and dance.  You make me smile and laugh everyday and for that I am eternally blessed.

 

The two of you together are a force to be reckoned with.  Zoë does everything you do Noah and it is so cute–sometimes a little dangerous but cute and you love the attention she pays to you and you, Zoë, love the attention that Noah gives you.  You hold each others hands when you walk, you hug each other frequently and hit each other less.  The bond you are forming is so special, I hope you can forge it strong and continue to build it forever. 

Love you,

Mommy