January 2020

I can’t believe you made it to 5 years old before we had to deal with a stomach bug. You woke up 2 mornings ago around 4:30 and threw up on the bed. Then you seemed fine the rest of the day but you did not eat or drink as much as normal.

Yesterday you woke up at 5am and threw up in the trash can we had left on your bed “just in case.” Well, just in case happened and you threw up pretty much every hour for most of the day. Towards evening it started spacing itself out. You and I slept in the living room just in case it decided to continue through the night.

I am super tired today but I am so glad you seem to be not throwing up anymore. We’ll try some food once you wake up but, you were awesome through everything. You didn’t complain a lot, you just wanted to know why it kept happening. When I started talking about germs and tummy bugs you were convinced you could feel the bug moving around in your tummy.

I love you so much. Only because I love you so much was I willing to clean your trash can out time after time all day long. You are beautiful! Hopefully this doesn’t happen anytime soon!

We started 1st grade this week and you are rocking it. You weren’t super fond of the extra 3 subjects on the first day but you are doing awesome. I cannot wait to see all the awesome things you will accomplish in your life. I hope that I am around to see everything but if not, know that I will always love you sweet girl.

I cannot believe my baby finished kindergarten today. You are so grown up! You finished the last of your math problems by yourself.

We will be starting 1st grade on Monday. You seem to do better when we keep learning so we rarely take a break for more than a week.

You learn more every day. As I write this, you are playing Dragons on your tablet. You love that game. You might be watching the show, whichever it is I hear Hiccup talking.

You have been in the same pair of pajamas for almost the entire week. After a long time of not wanting to wear some, you begged me to be able to wear jammies to bed. So we bought you a couple of pairs that you picked out yourself.

You have the cutest laugh and smile. You always ask us why we are tickling you, it’s because we are addicted to that laugh.

I love you and I cannot wait to start this next chapter in your school work!

You are in your last week of Kindergarten. You learn so fast. We will jump straight into 1st grade next week. You love Language Arts and hate Math. You are good at both.

You love dancing. You watched me sign on the stage at church over advent this last year and you pretended like you were doing signs too. Yesterday we started watching Signing Time! so you can learn some signs as well. You actually did really well copying what they were doing.

You got a TON of Lego’s for Christmas and they are spread all over the living room. You want daddy to build a castle and house and everything with you.

You turned 5 a couple of months ago and now you are always talking about “When I turn 6.” You think everything is going to happen as soon as you turn 6.

I love watching you grow. I love watching you get older and learn things.

I love you so much.

-Mommy