Blake,
I have to admit I've been pretty sentimental the last few
weeks thinking about you turning FIVE. I
enrolled you for kindergarten.
KINDERGARTEN! Five is going to be
a big year for you Blake, but selfishly a really big year for me too. Soon you’ll be starting your school career
and you’ll be leaving my side. In my
head I know you are so ready. But my
heart is having a harder time knowing that.
I look back at your baby pictures and your pictures over the last five
years, and it’s like I blinked and now you are five. And I guess my heart knows next time I blink
you’ll be ten, and then again and you’ll be out of the house. Why does time have to go just so fast
Blakers?!
You’ve blossomed and grown so much this past year. You absolutely love your school and have made
such great friends there. It kind of
breaks my heart knowing you are all going to different schools next year. You don’t really quite get that yet and I
know you’ll be bummed when you realize it.
But you have always made friends easily and I know you will absolutely
rock kindergarten. Your teachers this
year have witnessed and told us what we already knew about you, that you have
an incredibly big heart. That has
continued to be one of my favorite things about you. One of my absolute favorite stories exemplifying
this happened just this past weekend.
You were invited to a birthday party that Brady was not invited to. You went with your daddy while I stayed
behind with Brady. The party was at Main
Event and after you were done playing all the games your game card would pay
for and had won all the tickets you could win, you went to cash them in for
your prize. Without any prompting
whatsoever from your daddy, you suggested you use some of your tickets to get
something for Brady too. “I want to get
Brady that blue slinky, because blue is his favorite color. I CAN’T WAIT to see the smile on his face
when I give this to him!” I melted into
a pile of mush when your dad retold this story to me. You handed Brady his prize which absolutely lit
up Brady’s face and you said, “HE SMILED!
HE LIKES IT!” That’s the kind of
heart you have and have always had. You
are such an awesome big brother and while you two have your moments like any
siblings do, you and Brady are the best of friends. I prayed so much while I was pregnant with
Brady you and your brother would get along, like I did with my brother, and I’m
so incredibly grateful that has come to fruition. I love watching the two of you together and
your relationship grow. My heart is
happy knowing you two will always have each other.
Your teachers have also noted on your “report card” how
excelled in math you are. This is the
subject I have a feeling you will soar in.
You get this gift from your daddy.
You love doing math problems, which kind of cracks me up. Oh, how different we are when it comes to
this! You also excel in your
memorization skills. You have always
blown your daddy and I away when you blurt out a memory from when you were
two. But you also apply this to what you
learn. You can count to thirty right now
in Spanish, when your classmates are still counting to ten. You also apply this to your piano
playing. After playing a song with your
teacher once or twice, you commit it to memory.
This skill, your teacher states is one of great talent but also drives
him nuts because you’re not reading your music!
I love hearing how your piano playing has come along and can’t wait for
your first recital next month!
And of course one thing that has still stayed the same in
the entire five years of your life, you are sports crazed. You love playing any and all sports. You love watching sports on tv with your
daddy too and LOVED getting to go to your first professional sporting event
with him last month. The only sport you
play in an organized league currently is soccer, and you are so good at
it. You improve all the time and you are
extremely passionate about it. While on
the sidelines, some of your teammates are busy goofing off, but you are
watching the game intently begging the coach (your dad) to put you back
in. I love that about you!
Blake, you continue to make me and your daddy so incredibly
proud of you. You make us laugh all the
time and bring so much love into our lives.
We love being your parents more than you could ever know and can’t wait
to see what the next half a decade brings our way as you blaze your trail in
this world! Happy fifth birthday my sweet Blakers!!!!
Love,
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