Happy 4th Birthday

It has been a long long time since i last wrote to you my little man and for that I am sorry.

You have grown so much in the last year. A year ago you were still very much a toddler and while you could express yourself and talk the language you chose to you was typical for that age quite simple and basic. Over the past year I have seen your language skills take off and now I absolutely love the long conversations we have, in the four year old evaluation you had a week ago you scored off the charts for your communication and problem solving skills.

I see these skills in you on a daily basis from working out how to get something off the top shelf to putting a puzzle together or finding the answer to a complicated question. We have just started to teach you how to do basic maths starting with subtraction as we have counted down to Christmas and you are picking this skill up so quickly. I am so proud to be your mother and I really hope that you develop a life long love of learning and that your math skills are always this strong. Mathematics wasn't a strong subject for me at school and even now all these years on I struggle with even some of the more basic concepts.

You are now no longer a toddler but have developed into a handsome little boy who is about to start kindergarten. I look at you and I wonder where the tiny baby i held in my arms only four short years ago has disappeared to and am so grateful that I have been able to stay at home with you in this time. When you were born my entire world changed and for the first time I really knew what it was to love someone so much that you would give your life for them. You are my sunshine little man and make me so very happy.