You are one third of the way to receiving this gift. I know when you read this it might seem not that monumental, but being in the moment please trust me IT IS.

A lot to cover from the last 6 months. But really – look at you. Look at pictures from this post and compare even to 5.5, let alone 5. It’s incredible the visible difference in you. While it’s impossible to see, your personality and maturity differences are also crazy to comprehend. But what is consistent is that you are just as happy as always. You have this amazing knack at seeing the positive in everything, and very little rattles you. If that continues it will serve you well.

Started Kindergarten

You are heading to real school – kindergarten. As I mentioned in the last post, you chose to attend St. Joes with Harper and you started in August. They did a full on graduation for you at Wesleyan and you said bye to Mrs. Gina and Mrs. Katie. You are currently in Kindergarten with Mrs. Marcus as your teacher, and you so far love it.

The best part about it (for me) is that I now get to take you both to school every day. The routine is this:

• Wake up around 6:45
• Make lunches
• Make breakfast
• Get water bottles
• Load up backpacks
• Warm up the car
• Throw you monkeys in at 7:35am
• Arrive around 7:50am
• Park and walk you both in while you hold my hand
• Walk Harper to her class, and you give her a big hug every day
• We go to your class and I wait there with you until your teacher comes and gets you at 8am
• Rinse and repeat

It is my favorite part of every day. It is still early as you are only a few months in, but you are adapting well as we knew you would.

Cousins Visited

Your cousins came for a few days at the end of July and you guys had a blast. Since you really don’t have any cousins, they have become the closest thing. You floated the river with them, played more games at the house than I can even count, we had bbq’s and just a lot of fun. You have taken to all of them, but Addison specifically.

Airstream

We bought an Airstream. I mean why not buy the most expensive trailer that you can possibly buy versus a cheaper one being that we have never owned one before and never used one before and know nothing about trailer camping, you ask. Allow me to introduce you to your mother, who requires the best of everything and doesn’t apologize for it.

Anyway, here we are. I bought it from a dealer in California and drove down to pick it up and drive it back. We did get it out once this season before it ended and took it to Ponderosa State Park in McCall for the night. Gotta say – it’s nice to sleep inside. You guys brought your bikes and rode around. We went with another couple who had two boys your age, and you guys had a blast. Before we winterized it and stored it you and I also slept in it two nights in a row in the cul-de-sac.

Next summer we have plans to use it a lot, and hoping this will be one of those things that we can do every summer for many years to come.

First Tooth Lost

You are losing your teeth now! You had a loose tooth for quite a bit and it finally came out, and then another came out soon after. I told you about the trick of tying string to it and then slamming the door. You thought this was awesome and wanted to do it, so when your mom was gone we gave it a shot. I tied the string to your tooth and then to the front door, and right when I was about to slam it you called it off. It came out on its own the next day. 🙂

As always a lot going on but fun stuff. You are growing up so fast. It’s hard to put into words.

Please stay as sweet and amazing as you are today and have been to this point.

I love you more than all the world.

Love, Dad