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Dear Holly: Your Final Month of Being 5 Years Old

5 years, 11 months.

Dear Holly,

Exactly a month from today, you will be turning 6 years old- and you sure are excited about it!

Here recently, you have made a point to tell me certain things you have now outgrown:

“Daddy, I don’t watch Cocomelon anymore on Netflix. That’s for babies! I watch The Thundermans now.”

You are so happy that your birthday month is almost here. You will be celebrating your birthday the entire month of April!

But really, you pretty much already are celebrating your birthday now; as it’s the majority of what you talk about… including your birthday dinner at your favorite Mexican restaurant!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: I’m Watching You Become More Responsible

11 years, 5 months.

Dear Jack,

While I do my best to encourage you to to find ways to be more helpful and independent, I am noticing that you yourself are naturally wanting to become more of a responsible person.

This past week, Mommy bought a big umbrella for our back deck. You insisted that I not open the box once it came to our house from Amazon.

Instead, you wanted to be the one to open it, and unpack it, and to help Grandpa Joe set it up.

And you did!

You were so proud to be the project manager of the event!

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You and Nonna Still Love Coloring Together

5 years, 10 months.

Dear Holly,

I know this can’t be the first time I’ve mentioned this, because it seems so familiar. But when you and Nonna are together, the two of you have a tradition of doing coloring books.

This past weekend while your brother and Papa were outside catching crawdads, you and Nonna spent the same amount of time inside coloring.

It is quite on common in the morning before school, like today, you will announce to me: “Daddy, I am going upstairs to work on my pictures.”

You’re really good about taking it upon yourself to enroll in quiet and creative activities!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Your Silly “Sad and Happy” Socks

5 years, 10 months.

Dear Holly,

It has become a tradition at this point for you to look up at me and giggle in the morning after you choose your socks to wear that day, if it happens to be one of the days you choose to wear what I call your “silly sad and happy socks”.

If there were both happy socks with a smiley face on them, that would make sense for a 5 year-old little girl’s socks.

But instead, one of the socks is a sad face, while the other is a happy face.

And you just love to make me laugh by wearing them!

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: Your Sister Thinks It’s Fun to Watch You Play Video Games

11 years, 4 months.

Dear Jack,

I realized recently that one of your sister’s chosen activities throughout the week is to actively watch you play video games on your laptop.

An entire hour can pass, where it’s you playing your game, as your sister is helping you find items on the screen, or serving as an engaged audience member:

“What does that thing do, Jack?”

I can tell that you appreciate the moral support.

And it helps keep you from just playing the game in your room by yourself, because on some level, it serves as “quality time” for the two of you together.

 

Love,

Daddy