Dear Bently,

You say hilarious things every day! Unfortunatly, I am not very good at remembering them, or writing them down! Here are a couple things you've said recently that I love!!

First, you've been really sick. I mean fever, sore throat, tummy ache, coughing, sneezing, you name it, you got it. Well it has made your voice hoarse. You don't not like your voice sounding funny, so you talk in a whisper to avoid hearing it. This is very unhelpful when you have two very loud siblings. I have an impossible time hearing you. Finally I kept begging and begging for you to talk loudly. You finally whispered, "When I talk loud, my voice is not beautiful!" I laughed pretty hard over that one! ;)

Today I was working on our Youtube pregnancy announcement. We have watched it quite a few times and after awhile you told me, "Our video is fantastic!" I love you so much!!

You started telling me how much you love me. I know you're trying to say, I love you very much!" But you always say, "I very love you!" It's really adorable! Especially when you start adding in lots of very's! " I very very very love you!" It always makes me feel loved!

The last thing I love that you do lately is you tell me I'm beautiful all the time! I don't know when you started doing this or why you started but I am not complaining! You always make my bad days better with your simple, "Mom, you are beautiful!" One time I had just gotten out of the shower, hair still wet, no make up, in my pjs, and you still thought to tell me I'm beautiful!!! :)

As you can see, you're pretty much adorable right now! Stop growing up!!

Love,
Mom

Dear Bently,

You are quite the cutie lately! I don't know why, but you have been saying the most adorable things! One of  my favorite things you say is "I very love you!!" I think you mean I love you very much. But I love the way you say it even more!! :)

The other day I was singing Rapunzel. Dad got me the Tangled soundtrack and thanks to Olivia we've been singing it non-stop. Well I always have to sing mother Gothel's part. (again, thanks to Olivia) After the song, you exclaimed, "Mom you are a really good singer!!!" It was adorable and may have melted my heart!!

One things I've been meaning to mention, is your love of dogs. You love to pet other people's dogs. I taught you to ask to pet dogs. We got into a couple uncomfortable situations when we weren't asking... Anyways. This seems like a good idea. But you are overly enthusiastic about chasing down people walking there dogs. You will run down the street yelling, "CAN I PET YOUR DOG!!!" It's embarrassing and hilarious all at the same time.

You haven't done this for a long time, but for a couple months you  had an issue with the microphone at church. You were always looking for an opportunity to talk into the microphone. You would run from your chair to the microphone and say... whatever you wanted into it. It was extremely embarrassing at the time, but now, it's pretty hilarious! I'll be grateful when you don't sit on the front row anymore!

Sorry this is so random, I just wanted to tell you some cute stories while I was thinking about them!!

I love you so much my adorable sensitive little guy!!

Dear Bently,

Since we put you in a school we're technically not in the district for, I have to drive you/pick you up every single day. It's honestly not as bad as I thought it would be. Mostly due to the fact Dad has Monday through Wednesday off of work. So there are only 2 days a week I do it all myself. My favorite part is picking you up. There you stand with the other kindergartners, mostly you are off staring into space. As soon as you see me, your whole face lights up in a huge grin. Then you run towards me screaming "Mom!! Mom!!" I of course wave enthusiastically back! I love it! Every single time it melts my mama heart to watch you be so excited to see me! I hope you never stop greeting me this way! :)

This morning we found out Grandma Hodson died. It was sudden and very shocking. We decided to not tell you till you got back from school. I wasn't sure how you were going to handle it. We went to Grandpa Stetson's funeral in June so I knew you had semi understood death. You were a lot closer to Grandma Hodson than Grandpa Stetson. Mostly because they lived a lot closer to us. I was really worried. We asked you what you knew about death and who we knew that had died. That's when you began to act very funny. You didn't want to listen to us anymore. You didn't want to hear what we had to say. It was so sad. I didn't want to have to tell you. But of course, that wasn't an option. You cried. For a good 20 minutes. It was so sad. You told me you loved her and liked to play games with her Grandma Hodson was the best Grandma! She spent so many hours doing puzzles with you and playing toys on the floor. She loved you so much. She always lit up when she saw you! I hope you remember something about her. Hopefully something good. She was amazing! I know we'll both miss her!

Love,

Mom

Dear Bently,

We told you something really exciting yesterday! We told you I'm pregnant! I really really wanted to wait till we had an ultrasound with a heartbeat but I am awful at keeping secrets! Horrible! I was so excited to tell you! We told you and you were pretty excited. You smiled and seemed genuiely happy. But then you started making the I'm about to cry face. You Dad and I kept asking you if you were okay. You kept insisting you were. With a little prodding you finally broke down and cried. I thought you were sad we were having a baby and I was sad! You had always told me you did want another baby in our family! But then through your tears you told us it was a happy cry! I asked why you were so happy and you said, "Because you're having a baby!" I'm gonna be honest, I cried with you! It was stinking adorable and I am so very grateful we got it on video! :) It is such a special moment that now I get to relive forever!

I love you my very sweet boy! :) I hope your feelings are always close to the surface and I hope you always feel comfortable talking to me about what you are feeling!

Love,
Mom

Dear Bently and Olivia,

You both are in this phase where you ask me how to spell things. A lot of things. It usually happens while we're in the car driving somewhere, but we also do it at home. You say, "How do you spell, House." Then I spell house. I don't know why this game entertains you so much. But you both love it and want to ask me to spell things all the time. Sometimes I don't mind, sometimes it's pretty annoying! ;) It sure makes me feel like I'm in a spelling B! It also reminds me how many words I don't know how to spell. Sometimes I have no idea what Olivia is saying so I just make up a spelling. I figure, you're not going to be able to remember it anyways! :)

You both love each other so much. It has been so much fun watching your relationship with each other grow! You can fight like none other, but you also play together all the time! :) Sometimes, if one of you isn't coming fast enough I threaten to leave you. This causes the other sibling to go into hysterical crying and screaming! Today I just walked out of the house ahead of you and Olivia began to scream, "Don't leave Bently!" Then she ran to Bently who was sitting in the hallway, helped him up and brought him to the door! It was pretty adorable! I love the fierce loyalty you have to one another! I hope you always feel protective of each other! :)

I love you both so much! I hope you know that!

Love,
Mom

Dear Bently,

I have been writiting you these letters for a long time. I haven't always been great about keeping up on them, but I've always tried. It's so strange, starting this letter like any other. Because today is your very first day of kindergarten! I can't even believe it's here. It's funny, when you entered preschool at 3, I remember thinking kindergarten was forever away! Even last year I still felt like you were never going to go to kindergarten! But suddenly the day is here! Time is so funny! I seriously feel like you were my baby just yesterday! How can you be in Kindergarten?

You did pretty good. I could tell you were nervous this morning. You kept asking questions about school. You also have this face you do when you are trying not to cry. That face kept cropping up and I hated it! I was banking on you being so excited I wouldn't feel sad!

You had that face on when I left you at your desk. I hope you are okay. I can't believe you will be gone for the next three hours! I miss you!

I love you so much Bently! I love watching you reach these milestones and hate it all at the same time! I may have cried pretty much the whole way home and again while writing you this letter! :( I hope you have a fantastic first day of school and I can't wait to pick you up and hear all about it!

Love,
Mom

P.s. Last night Dad cried with me as we cuddled you while you slept. He told me he was just going to take you to work with him today and keep you instead of letting you go to kindergarten. Part of me was hopeful he would! ;)

Dear Bently,

We are one week from kindergarten! AHHH!!! You are so ready... I am not! I cry about it almost every day. I often get misty just watching you! I worry a lot! I know you'll be fine and love it! I just can't help but worry! I also worry about poor Olivia! She is going to miss you so much!

Today we went to your school and you did kindergarten testing! You did really really good over all! You missed a couple easy ones! I'm sure you were just nervous! So here is what I wrote down!

You could recognize all the number 1-20 except you missed 19.
You knew all your shapes and colors.
You counted from 1-100. That surprised me. When I asked you to count for me a few days ago you didn't make it past 50! ;)
You recognized and named all the capital letters except you missed V.
You recognized and named all the lowercase letters except j and k. (You got the lowercase v which confused me why you missed uppercase. I meant they look the same!)
You knew the sounds all the letters made but you missed Q.

I love you handsome boy! You are so smart! You are going to rock Kindergarten!

Love,
Mom