Dear Neil,
So it's been a few months since my last letter. My apologies for that. So much has happened between April and now, and yet it's as if nothing's changed at all. Is that possible?
The warm weather is finally here and you are loving it! You love swimming and playing outside and getting dirty. You experimented with many puddles this spring, getting good and soaked each time. It was so much fun watching you giggle and laugh as you stomped your rain boots in the puddles. Eventually you would reach down to touch the water with your hands, inevitably falling on your rear end. But even then you wouldn't want to get out of the puddle.
May started out rough for us. It was grandma's celebration of life event on May 5th. You came to Montreal and everyone was so thrilled to meet you. You were an angel, but it was quite overwhelming for you, I'm sure.
One fun part was playing in the same park that mommy played in when she was a little girl. The playground is much fancier now, but a park is a park and all kids know how to have fun at one. It was a great moment, rather surreal really, walking you to the park that I used to walk to every day. Life really does come full circle. Grandma's sister (your great-aunt) Wendy joined us one day. I'm glad you were able to spend that time with her, even if you won't remember it.
Spring 2012 is also the time you learned the word "no". And it's your favourite word! You are certainly stating your independence, piglet. Everything is on your terms, when you want to do it. You've decided you no longer like baths (huh?!), you no longer like any of the foods you used to love, and you no longer like going to bed. Fortunately, you still love cows and going to the barn. Except that's all you ever want to do as every time we drive somewhere and pass a barn, you say "moo? moo?".
Your words are starting to come, slowly but surely. Half the time I can't understand you and the other half the time I think you're speaking french, but you're beginning to say more and more words. Moo still being your favourite.
Yes, you're definitely vocal, that's for sure. You speak to us in your "language" expecting us to understand. I'm sure it's frustrating for you when we don't understand what you're trying to tell us. I apologize for that Neil.
July 1st was an exciting day as you rode in your very first Canada Day parade! The theme was "then and now" and you road on a miniature tractor on the float of items depicting then and now. I think you were a little overwhelmed with it all, but you were a champion.
Next month you'll be 2 years old! How time flies. Thinking back to this time last year, I'm amazed and how much you've grown over the past year, and also how much I've grown as a mother. I no longer totally freak out about everything you eat. I'm calmer, more assured and confident. I still get scared now and then, but as you gain confidence, so do I.
Till next time,
love
Mommy and daddy
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