Last updated on March 4th, 2024 at 08:28 pm
For the past two years, I have written a weekly letter with a snapshot of both my little munchkins. I write these letters at a time they may not remember and also for me to recall later in life when I may not remember the little details either. Those small things that change and happen every week that we pass by and don’t recall later. I document them here in letters to my son and to my daughter separately. I love writing to them and telling them my perspective of our ordinary moments together. This is the third year I have done these letters and each year I put them into a book for them to have when they are older.
And now that they are getting older and may start to have memory of our life I will be writing monthly letters to them instead. They are now at a stage where they don’t change every week and that we have a very routine planned out life that is the same from week to week. I didn’t want to stop writing to them yet so this year I still will capture and write a monthly letter to them. I love the idea that one day they will look back on these when they are adults.
I hope you enjoy my letters again this year.
HIM
My Dearest B,
You are in your fifth year of life and in school full time now. I wouldn’t have imagine our lives now like this. We have school drop offs and pickups, soccer and swimming practice afterwards. Our weekends are full of park hopping, bike riding, and family adventures together. It seems like yesterday you were just born and I was trying to figure it all out as a first time mother. It’s been such an amazing journey watching you grow from baby to toddler and toddler to little boy. You are full of questions of the world now, full of energy and motivation, and full of everyday little boy life. It’s amazing to watch you do your homework and soak up information like a sponge. You take everything for face value at this age. Whilst I want you to slow down on growing up too fast I get excited to see the next milestone achieved or accomplished. I am so proud of the lovely little boy you have grown up to be. You are great in school and you and your sister abide a few hiccups are still inseparable with so much love to give each other. Even though you have a little more attitude and testing what you can and can’t do with me lately I know it’s your way of learning what’s right and wrong and how to deal with life and it’s many emotions. You are finding your comedian side of your personality and it tickles me to see you so proud of your own jokes. You are starting to flirt now too. OH yes, I said it out loud. Your blushing cheeks when you see someone you like is just another sign you are no longer a baby.
Love, Mommy xo
HER
My Dearest MM,
You are standing on your own now. You no longer have your brother to play with during the day and having to learn to be independent and make your own decisions when he used to be there to do that for you. You have changed so much since he has started school and you became your own individual. While you are together you still shadow him around and do and say every thing he says but when it’s just you, you shine bright. You step up to the plate, play with other children when we are out, make decisions, become creative with your independent play and I get to see your true personality come out. I love every moment watching you have your own opinions now and talking more than ever. You have all your words now and we can sit and chat about Mickey Mouse or your baby dolls. You have a new love for my dressing table and playing with my makeup brushes. You are a balanced version of tomboy and girlie girl. You love the princess dresses, makeup and babies but as long as you can play in the mud, climb and jump off things, and play with your brother’s cars too. You remind me so much of myself growing up with my older brother. You are still my baby, my last baby and I am trying to keep you innocent and cuddly as long as I can but I have to come to terms that you are almost three now and there isn’t babies in the house anymore. It’s the end of a era in our house now. I look forward to our future together as a family of four.
Love, Mommy xo
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Awww look at MM, how adorable! Such a lovely pic. Munch still lives to play with my makeup brushes. Simple pleasures eh xx
Oh Jenny what a beautiful picture of MM! She sounds like she’s really found her feet with and without her big brother and it must be lovely still to have a chatty little friend about the house during the week 🙂
Letters to Him & Her and keeping them in books is such a wonderful idea! I’m sure they will treasure them when they are grown. Especially little anecdotes about starting to flirt – how adorable is that!!
So nice to have found you through Ordinary Moments xxx
Oh wow Jenny what an absolutely stunning photo of MM, she looks beautiful in her dress and what a smile both of them have. It is so hard to accept when your babies grow up isn’t it? And to accept no more babies in the house. I honestly thought we were done so for the first year of LL’s life I was so emotional that she was hitting all these milestones. I know I am going to be even worse with this little boy as he is DEFINITELY the last one. x
Yes it really is I am actually struggling at the moment with how grown up she is and feeling so lost not having babies to cuddle, diapers to change, baby things around the house and getting rid of the baby nursery is hard. Not going to lie.
These posts are so lovely Jenny it is the sweetest that you write them for them and put them into a book at the end of the year. So thoughtful. I often get really emotional about Eden being our last. I know that we want to adopt in the future and well we’ll see if that ever happens, but if we do we want to adopt an older child so it will never be a little baby. These photos are so stunning and MM looks just scrumptious in that dress, you’ve captured her so well. She looks like royalty. Beautiful xxx
Ooooh! Look at MM! How utterly beautiful does she look? AND how grown up! Love her, such a little princess x
Thank you Donna that’s kind of you to say. She loved her princess dress it suited her so much. She does look so grown up it’s killing me lately. lol
What a beautiful photograph in her dress! So pretty. Lovely letter. Jess xx
What a lovely idea. This will be wonderful for them to look back through when they are older 🙂
Such a thoughtful thing to do. I love documenting as much as possible even if I keep a lot of it in my ‘at home’ diaries/scrapbooks. Its something so special for them, and us! look at MM in her dress! x
OH me too. I am huge into scrapbooking or I used to be until blogging came in and one of my to dos this year is to catch up on my scrapbooks for these past two years. I am on a mission to document it the old fashion way as much as the new way.
MM looks so beautiful! These letters are so special and you really do an amazing job describing their personalities and milestones. Thank you for sharing with us. #TheOrdinaryMoments
Thanks Christina that’s so lovely of you to say. They really are growing up too fast and hoping they look back on these and love them as much as I do writing to them.
They are so gorgeous, and that pic of MM is so dreamy. I love the idea of your letters going into a book for them to read later. Great idea.
Thank you Emma, I just want them to have them all in one place something could always happen to my online space or take too long to go through all the other things I write about one day for them. Just makes it easier.