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Dear Holly: You’re Planning Your 6th Birthday Party, Which is Still 3 Months Away

5 years, 9 months.

Dear Holly,

For the past few weekends now, you have begun planning out your upcoming 6th birthday party.

And by upcoming, I mean… 3 months from now.

You started a list of all the activities you want to plan for all you and your friends to enjoy.

My personal favorite is “Twizzlers”.

That’s just it’s own event.

You all get to eat Twizzlers.

Because when you’re 5 going on 6… Yeah, that’s an event all in itself.

But specifically, here are the  birthday activities you’ve got on your list, so far- in what I’m assuming in chronological order:

  1. Gifts
  2. Cake
  3. Ice Cream
  4. Pizza
  5. Popcorn
  6. M&M’s
  7. Goldfish
  8. Apples
  9. Twizzlers
  10. Toys

Gifts first, of course. Pizza after ice cream? Sure, why not!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: You’re in the 97th Percentile for 5th Grade Math at Your School

11 years, 3 months.

Dear Jack,

It’s easy for me to see you as the fun-loving kid that you are. Sometimes I tend to forget you’re actually at school most of the day… you know, learning stuff.

This week you brought us home a report from school, certifying that you tested better than 97% of the 5th grade students at your school.

So yeah, that’s a big deal!

Granted, you’ve been receiving math awards consistently since Kindergarten.

Mommy and I made sure to let you know how proud we are for having a Math Whiz for a son!

I can assure you, I was never, at any point in my life, as good at math as you already are now.

Seriously.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: We Went Snow Tubing at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville

5 years, 8 months.

Dear Holly,

We had already pre-purchased our tickets to go snowtubing at Gaylord Opryland, since they kept selling out every time we planned to go. And then… the blizzard came.

Fortunately, I have a Jeep, so we were able to ironically drive an hour away to through snow where we live in Spring Hill, to Nashville, where it was not snowing.

Then once we arrived in Nashville, we went snow tubing in the manufactured snow.

In theory, we could have just as easily went tubing on any of the hills in our neighborhood. The thing is… we wouldn’t have.

There’s something about organized fun sometimes that truly makes it more fun!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: It’s Hard to Get a Picture of You Not Making a Silly Face

11 years, 3 months.

Dear Jack,

I feel like, in the past 11 years, this isn’t the first time I’ve said this; but it’s more likely that you will make a silly face when I take your picture, as opposed to you genuinely smiling.

Honestly, I can understand how you feel. We take a lot of pictures of you. Because as your parents, we know that you are going to look back on the pictures we took of you when you were young, and you will appreciate it.

But you don’t appreciate it right now.

So this past weekend when we went out to Nashville to go snow tubing, I saw a statue of a snowman and insisted you get your picture taken.

I assured you that I didn’t need you to smile… only to make the same ugly face as the snowman.

And you did.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You Won a Medal at Gymnastics This Week!

5 years, 8 months.

Dear Holly,

This Tuesday, you won a medal in your gymnastics class- and you have been so proud ever since!

You insisted the next morning that you be able to wear it to school.

Your brother had some reservations that you might lose it during the school day, but I figured if it meant that much to you to show it to your teachers and friends, it would be worth the risk.

And you’ve worn it every day since!

It makes me so happy to see how hard you work at what you love!

Great job, Holly!

Love,

Daddy