Fleur de Aleta

Dear Son, June?  June?!  The last time I wrote a letter to you was in June?  Oh heavens!  You know it was a crazy, busy summer if Mommy is that delayed in writing. Let's see, rounding up summer in a flash (okay, not a flash, this is going to be long): You loved cooking camp, making scrambled eggs to jambalaya to baking a king cake and all sorts of fun things in-between.  Did you enjoy eating all of the things you made?  Of course not.  But it taught you skills and had you trying new foods.  Every little step counts!  You are clearly more confident in the kitchen and offering to help.  In fact, when we went to Granny and Grandfather's house for Daddy to make crepes, you were happy to stir the eggs, spinach and tomatoes over the stove. Soccer camp was fun.  You felt at ease with kicking the ball.  Often times, the group divided into two teams.  No problems there. During Basketball camp, your coach said, "Gregory h...

Dear Son, All three weeks of VBS are over.  You couldn't say which was your favorite.  You said, "All of them!"  Each offered a variety of fun and learning. St. Augustine's VBS had a huge amount of crafts, songs that you learned throughout the year at preschool there and individual picture magnets and the kids sang at the Sunday service. St. Matthews' VBS had cool games and a really nice singing performance for the parents to enjoy and a picture of the kids' groups. Atonement's VBS sold the CD with the music, which was for both their VBS and St. Matthew's.  It's nice to play the CD in the car for you to sing along to.  Atonement turned snack time into craft time - kids decorated cookies and cupcakes and made s'mores.  (Quick note:  TJ used the potty at Atonement's VBS!  The teacher asked if he had to pee.  TJ said, "No."  The teacher said, "You need to pee." and he went to the bathroom!  This is a big step in pot...

Dear Son, We went to Eli's birthday party at Surge.  You love going to the trampoline places; you don't stop.  It was sweet to see you with your schoolmates from St. Augustine's.  I was sad to hear that Eli and his family are moving to California.  They have family there and are happy to be returning soon.  You will have more time with Eli when you go to the first week of camp at Lutheran Atonement, because Eli will be there too! Mommy also shared Lutheran Atonement's camp schedule with Connie, Carsen's grandmother.  He originally was with Kids Camp, but he wasn't pleased when they changed schedules around.  Good news though, he is enrollment in camps at Atonement too.  If summer is when you get to see your schoolmates again, then that's great (hopefully during the year too). You had plenty of schoolmates from St. Augustine's at the St. Augustine's Vacation Bible School!  Every day at VBS, you brought home a bunch of projects.  You...

Dear Son, The last time I wrote a letter you were still in prek-4.  Now you are a preschool graduate, but I'm getting ahead of myself. On March 31st, I posted this on Facebook: "We started a list of verbs today for Gregory to read.  One of the words was "blush."  We had to explain what this meant.  My husband said, "When a girl gives you a kiss and you blush."  Gregory whispered to me, "When you are in love with a girl, you blush."  This is the first time Gregory mentioned liking a girl.  I had to coax him into sharing, but he said, "I like Harper."  Aww, that is the reason why he asked me to take a picture of him with Harper at the school Easter party :)" I love how you understood the word and applied it to your life, my sweet son.  Since posting that, we found out that Daniel has a serious crush on Harper as well.  And since then, you have also mentioned that Kylie, Scarlett, Amelia, Ellie and Nahomy are very pretty too. ...