K, I came to pick you up yesterday from school.
We were headed to gymnastics and in a rush, but your teacher, Mady, stopped me at the door as I was reaching for you.
She said that you told her:
Everybody goes to heaven.
So she asked you:
Are you going to heaven?
You replied:
No, I’m going to gymnastics.
Ha!
You make me smile like a child again sometimes.
I love you.
-Dad
K, today you went to the bathroom in the potty for the first time!
I think you technically went once before when you were getting in the bathtub and mom sat you down on the training potty, in a last ditch effort to not let you go in the floor or in the fresh bath water.
But this time you did it yourself.
I didn’t see it, but you and mom were in the bathroom and suddenly everyone was screaming.
At first, I was not sure what everything was about, but when we found out we all praised you like you had finished your first marathon.
H gave you a big hug.
And you smiled so proudly.
I love you.
-Dad
Wow, what a hard Monday back.
See, we had Christmas break, and then mom took another week off work to keep y’all home. Then you both spent three days with mom’s parents, and finally, we went to see my parents for three days.
So yeah – nobody wanted to get up this morning.
And of course it couldn’t just be a slow workday either. There was a crisis by 9 AM.
But sometimes it works out.
We all played ring around the roses when I got home and then mom made pancakes for dinner.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
I love you.
-Dad