Dear E.W.E.,
Two years ago today, you were on your way into this big, crazy, challenging world.
This year has gone by in a blur.
It feels like yesterday that I was carefully placing balloons in your house while you took a nap before your first birthday party.
The biggest change this year has been in your speech. You use your words (FULL SENTENCES!) now to express your joy, pain, frustration, fear, and anger.
Just this evening, your mom and I were chatting on the street. You were wearing your bright yellow chicken helmet, after having scootered all the way to JP Seafood and back from dinner! After a while, your mom scooped you up, but she and I kept chatting.
Finally, having had enough, you said, very clearly, "I want to go home."
And off you went. To take a bath, get ready for bed, and sleep through the time of day you were born.
You'll wake up a 2-year-old!
A big, boisterous, babbling 2-year-old.
This year, you have stepped solidly into your fearlessness.
You LOVE being upside down, and going down slides, waterslides, and even on amusement park rides!
I will never forget how, when you were just barely one, your mom and my mom visited me at work. I gave you all a tour of the club and then we stopped in the gym to chat with my coworker there. Your mom put you down and you walked right onto the basketball court, unafraid of the big teenage boys playing there, determined to grab a basketball.
You stopped the boys in their tracks.
And I know that was just the beginning.
Happy birthday. I love you.
Love,
Auntie Pretzel
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