Newsletter: Month Forty-seven
Dear Leta, A few days ago you turned forty-seven months old. I know this newsletter is a little late this month, but that can be blamed entirely on the savage way the Christmas holiday disrupted our lives, bah humbug. The last three weeks have been an endless string of family parties and dinners and driving [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-six
Dear Leta, Yesterday you turned forty-six months old. I’m not sure where the last thirty days went, cannot believe that there are only three weeks until Christmas, but that’s not something I’m allowed to bring up in front of you because that means there’s only three weeks until that strange, gray-haired man breaks into the [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-five
Dear Leta, A few days ago you turned forty-five months old. Let’s see, what happened this month, hmm, let me think… is it worth mentioning that you have been sleeping with a Fisher-Price tape deck for the past week? Considering the vast array of ridiculous objects you have slept with in your life, this one [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-four
Dear Leta, Today you turn forty-four months old. One morning early this month you woke up, took a look around your bed and suddenly realized that it was not, in fact, barricaded by an electrically-charged barbwire fence. And I guess you were overcome by the enormous fortune of that, maybe you sat there for a [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-three
Dear Leta, A couple of days ago you turned forty-three months old. I get a lot of email that asks me why I count your age in months, and the truth is, I do not have a good answer to this question. Because it’s easier than counting your age in days? Because if I wrote [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-two
Dear Leta, Today you turn forty-two months old. Something happened this month, some switch was flipped, and your personality now resembles more a three-year-old and less a toothless, arthritic geriatric. Suddenly we are parents of a kid who will not sit still, and this is uncomfortably new for us. You have always been a pretty [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty-one
Dear Leta, Today you turn forty-one months old, and wait a minute, I don’t even remember the last time I wrote you a newsletter on the third day of the month. Usually I’m way behind schedule and writing you two or three or eight days after you have turned another month old, and let me [...]
Newsletter: Month Forty
Dear Leta, A few days ago you turned forty months old, and just yesterday you started pre school. This is something we have wanted to get you involved with for a while, mostly because you already know everything and more than I did when I started kindergarten, and I’m pretty sure you’re bored here at [...]
Newsletter: Month Thirty-nine
Dear Leta, Last week you turned thirty-nine months old. The last four weeks of our lives have been some of the most stressful you have ever known, more stressful even than that one time you were watching an episode of Sesame Street and thought Andrea Bocelli was trying to kill Elmo. We moved into a [...]
Newsletter: Month Thirty-eight
Dear Leta, Yesterday you turned thirty-eight months old. We celebrated by eating a lot of ice cream which is not much different than how we celebrate every day, let’s be honest. I’m sure we’re breaking all sorts of rules by letting you eat ice cream as frequently as we do, but I don’t really care [...]
