A Letter to My Two-Year-Old
It's been about a week since our little man turned two and I finally have a moment to process my feelings! There are a lot of them lol but I want to use this post to document as many of them as I can, to memorialize in this moment what life is like with him being this little, and my hopes for his continued childhood - which seems to be flying by with each day.
Happiest (belated) birthday Jackson Graham! How has it already been two years since you entered our lives and became the center of our world? Every single day I look at you and couldn't be prouder of who you are and how you're developing, I couldn't be more honored and thankful to be your mom and couldn't be more in love with your precious little face! You are such a sweet boy who loves being loved on and giving love to those around you. It's so incredibly wholesome and pure.
It seems like each week your dad and I look back and are like "wow! he's definitely grown since yesterday" or notice what new words you have learned at school, new skills, new numbers and shapes to recite. You're so incredibly bright! You love to sing songs with us now, mumbling the ABCs or Mary Had a Little Lamb or doing the motions to Itsy Bitsy Spider. You haven't really done that before and its one of my favorite parts of the day when we sing them before bedtime. You also LOVE reading books. You love to hold the books on your own, read the stories in your made-up gibberish, and quickly ask for another to repeat. We go through 7-8 books at a time but I'm so happy "reading" excites you; I hope you keep this interest as you get older.
You love all things trucks, trains, planes, and cars. Anything with wheels really. You love to look through the sunroof in our car and point out planes and helicopters in the sky or call out firetrucks and buses as we drive past - it's the cutest thing ever. You hold your hand up to your ear now when you hear a siren and say, "hear firetruck?", I die every time.
You also are starting to become more independent, which is both exciting and challenging. You want to sit in chairs and eat dinner without your booster or push our shopping buggies alone in the store. You try to put your shoes on by yourself now, open your own snack pouches (which are twist caps, so pretty hard), and reach for things on shelves juuust too high for you. But I admire your determination and desire. It's all a part of growing up and I know as soon as you can reach that counter or shelf then a new phase will be beginning, and this short time will be over.
Being a mom is still filled with a lot of complex emotions - and I don't think that will ever change. You are the most perfect, precious baby (totally unbiased lol) I could ever have asked for and the amount of love, hope, patience, empathy, joy, and belief I have in my heart for you is endless. I treasure every single energy packed and completely exhausting moment I have with you in this phase. From newborn, to infant, to now fully toddler, each age has been totally full of discovery and lessons learned for both of us - I hope one day you look back and see how much your dad and I love you, are trying to support you, protect you, encourage you, raise you to be a good human to everyone. We hope to continue building a home/childhood/life that you don't have to recover from and sets you up to be a successful, meaningful human in this world.
But for now, you're just 2. And it's one of my favorite ages thus far. For now, I will savor all the snuggles, all the time you ask for mommy, all the laughs and funny faces and mispronounced words. You are the greatest gift I have ever been given. I am so profoundly grateful that I was chosen to be your mom and will continue to work every day to be worthy of that title.
Happy second birthday little love, I can't wait to see what you do and how you grow over this next year.
Love, Mommy
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