Dear Lexi,
Happy 4th birthday! Four years ago, you burst on
to the scene – all 6 pounds and 6 ounces of you. Four years later, you still
enter most rooms the same way, as a tiny spitfire, with big brown eyes and a
loud, adorable voice. Only now you have the best hair I’ve ever seen. We say it’s
crazy hair, but really, it’s one of my favourite things about you and I hope it
never, ever calms down. It matches your personality in the best way –
unrestrained, uncontained, and infinitely smile-inducing.
I am so proud of the wonderful human you are growing into –
caring, considerate, giggly, funny, smart, adventurous, and snuggly. Although
you’ve always loved playing with your brother and sister, it’s so fascinating
to watch those relationships change and mature over time. You worship the
ground that Mercedes walks on, but you stand up to her more these days –
insisting on which role you want to play in your make-believe game of ‘family’,
or saying no when she tries to direct a game a certain way. But you also get
along so much better with Holden now, which delights me. Your relationship with
him has always been a bit tricky – being so close in age, and being so young
yourself when he arrived, it’s easy to see why there might have been a bit of
animosity as he quickly progressed into toddlerhood. But now, with him being so
verbal, and you being nearly the same size, you seem more like equals. You find
him just as amusing as Mercedes does, and you treat him with compassion and
consideration, and more like a true playmate than you ever have before.
You have only a few months left of full-time daycare before
you embark on your next great adventure, full-time school! You are
super-excited about Junior Kindergarten, and getting to go to ‘big school’ like
Mercedes, but I know you will miss all of your friends and teachers at Learning
Jungle. You have learned so much in your time there – progressing from the
Junior Preschool Room to the Senior Preschool Room, dropping your nap, learning
basic literacy skills – right now you are even teaching us sign language! I
love hearing about the fantastic things you do at daycare – adventure walks and
theme days and catching frogs and learning about the ocean and pirates and
building tiny towns. It’s a fantastic place and they love you almost as much as
we do.
Thank you for being such a delightful presence in our lives –
everyone who knows you agrees that there is just something extra special about
you. Some spark, some fire, some impish-ness that I hope never dulls. You glow,
and I vow to always nurture that glow, ensuring it forever shines as bright as
it does now.
Happy 4th Lexi-Doodle!
Love,
Mama
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