Dear Little Prince,
It’s been awhile since I’ve written to you, and I’m sorry about that. I will try to do better. I know there is nothing to forgive, since the time I might have used to put pen to paper was spent playing with you instead, but do understand the importance of recording these words too just as we record your words.
Oh my, the words. You seem to learn five new ones every day. Yesterday you learned “dancing.” The day before you learned “steamy.” And last week? You learned a word I can’t repeat here and you have thankfully stopped parroting back to us. By the time you read this you’ll really know it and many much worse. That’s exciting and sad at the same time.
Anyway, the way you said those four letters it sounded like fork… It was adorable.
You know what else is adorable? Getting home from work in the afternoons and hearing “Daddy!” before I even see you running from the other end of the house to give me a hug. Running. Hugging. Tugging on my pants to follow you back to where you were so we can play together.
Playtime is the best. You dribbled a soccer ball from one room to the next earlier this week. You did it on purpose too. You’d seen me do it. You tried it. You did it. It was amazing! And then I chased you down to celebrate and you giggled as we high-fived and I tickled you. Then we tracked down your mom, the Queen, and we both tickle-attacked her.
You are learning at a ridiculous rate. You help with chores, putting food in the kitties’ dishes, washing plates and filling up the dish rack, sweeping, vacuuming… Okay, so you can’t quite get the hang of all of those yet, but you do all of them with our help, and sometimes you manage them on your own.
You are growing at ridiculous rate too. Some meals you seem to eat more than I do… and I eat a lot. You are our mini-garbage disposal and I fear for the grocery bills in a few years. I fear for the clothing bills, too, as you outgrow things faster than we can buy them. You are definitely a toddler now, and I can hardly see the baby in you at all.
I understand these are typical milestones of parenting but that doesn’t take anything away from my experience with them. This whole adventure, while terrifying and trying at times, continues to hold moments of wonder and delight, to an extent I didn’t know was possible. Thank you for going on this adventure with your mom and me. Thank you for your patience as we continue to grow and feel our way through these new roles.
We are proud of you.
We love you and can’t wait to see what new discovery you make each and every day going forward.
Love,
Daddy
aka: djmatticus, the jester
You are this world’s role model for how to be an awesome dad. As a mom, I don’t think there’s anything better than the click of a door and hearing your child yell “Daddy’s home!” All is right in the universe – nothing else really matters. Merry Christmas/Chanukkah and all that to you guys!
I’m not sure I should be a role model for anyone… The Queen deserves all credit for making sure the Little Prince is thriving. Hey love and
Whoops. My phone published before I was done!!
*ahem* As I was saying, her love and self sacrifice are inspiring and make my job as “daddy” infinitely easier.
That is so sweet!
It’s a little sweet, and a little silly. So, basically, perfect.
This is so sweet….I love that you are documenting his journey so he can see how much you love him. 🙂
You’re funny!! These aren’t for him. These are for my wonderful readers. These are for the Little Prince’s grandma, so she has something happy to read when she visits the blog. 😝
Now we can begin with sentence structure… try saying it with me, little Prince: “Steamy forking dancing!”
How is that better than “the quick queen of Quincy and her quacking quackeroo”…? He’s already got that down. (Not really.)
Well get on it, because that would be awesome.
This
This is beautiful and a precious and priceless legacy that your are creating for the little prince –
Thank you!
He’s a lucky little guy. 🙂
He’s not really all that little anymore!! And we haven’t been to Vegas yet to test his luckiness. But, you’re probably right.
I’m always right. 😉
I have no evidence to the contrary… so, I’m inclined to agree.
Wise dude. 😉
I love this. My little dude said “ice pack” this week, and it sounded ridiculously like something else (see Facebook for video). Don’t they just make you laugh so hard?!
I’ll be looking for the fb post tonight! Yes, laugh and cry and sometimes both at the same time. 😉
They grow up.so f***in fast! Love this.
😀
Like a weed!!!
They grow yo so fin fast. You both rock.
You rock, too. I have that on good authority. 😉
🙂 loved your way of penning down things..
Thank you!
I love that you write these letters to him! 🙂
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They are kind of fun. I keep meaning to write more like this, but never seem to find the words when I find the time to write.
How cool it will be when little prince is old enough to not only read but digest your words. I think it would be a lovely thing for you to make them into a book at some point. What a treasure that would be. 🙂 I tried to write something to my son in his baby book when he was just born..but I was such an emotional bundle I could hardly write anything that made sense. LOL When I am happy is actually the most difficult time for me to write anything of substance. I really just love this. 🙂
Yep, a book, or something like that is on my radar… we’ll see how it all works out. 😃
Oh man, that was all manner of wonderful, Matticus. Enjoy every minute! I do with mine. seriously, this was more heartwarming than all the supposedly-heartfelt platitudes of the season.
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