Dear Audrey:
YOU are 4! And I dont know how yet another year of your life has come and gone.
This has been a crazy year.
You started preschool and I gained 5 grey hairs. The start was rocky and so were some in betweens.
As the first full year comes to a close, I have seen you grow in ways I just sometimes cant believe.
You love your little classmates so much, and you have been beyond blessed with such loving and amazing and godly teachers.
I have done some changing in your food and that seems to have helped you to overcome some of your stumbling blocks.
You have grown....not just in age, but in heigth. 43 inches tall and 46 lbs.
You make me smile.
You say the funniest things...and I promise to do better with writing them down so we both can look back and laugh at them.
No more diapers, that was a big book closing.
You finally got to take your dance class that you begged for. 5 weeks of princesses. You never did manage to stay on the dot assigned to you. But I have managed to stop freakin out every time you dont stand in a straight line and veer off onto your own path.
You tend to do that OFTEN. You are certainly on your own path more often than on the path laid out before you. AND, I try my best to be ok with that. I'm not the best at it.
I dont want you to ever think for one second that who you are doesnt make me so proud! Even when you veer off my path, I am always proud of who God has shaped you into.
You are kind. You are inquisitive. You are smart. You love puzzles, and pretending, and dress up. You love Mary Poppins and Annie and every Broadway show and Musical.
I love to watch you sing "feed the bird", "Tomorrow" and "Memories.
In your 3rd year of life, you have: Seen Disney on Ice( TWICE), Mary Poppins, Annie ( TWICE), Cats, The Little Mermaid. You have: Been to a butterfly farm, played Mary in your school CHristmas Pageant, the National Toy Museum, rode your first amusement park rides at Dutch Wonderland, and been to a Carnival. You have spent alot of time at "our" zoo, and some extra time at Paulus Farm with the Bunnies and Pigs, You have learned how to spell your name and ride your scotter. You color inside the lines MOST of the time. You have ridden a pony at Pony camp, gone to see your first movies) Crudds, Monsters Inc, Despicable Me and Turbo)
You saw Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia, and traveled to the beach. So many things AND
I am looking forward to what the year ahead has planned for us.
With Love Always,Mom
