My Letter to Britt
Dear Son,
Today you are 6 ½ years old.
Happy late Father’s day to me. You
have grown a little bit, but you aren’t much taller than last year. However, there have also been some changes in
life since last year.
Today you will be starting your first day of 1st grade. Momma has lots of things planned for science, history, and of course math and reading. You will be starting back to co-op again in the fall, the end of next month. But with it being summer time right now, you get to do lots of fun things, like swim lessons for PE and zoo trips for science. Some things you have really started excelling at. You’ve always been excited about science and what makes things happen, and why. You will still need to work hard at basic math and reading, but it seems like you pick up more and more each day. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you get to start a new grade, the bad news is you have the same teacher you didn’t like last year. As your mother shakes her head at me, thinking “I KILL YOU!”
Today you will be starting your first day of 1st grade. Momma has lots of things planned for science, history, and of course math and reading. You will be starting back to co-op again in the fall, the end of next month. But with it being summer time right now, you get to do lots of fun things, like swim lessons for PE and zoo trips for science. Some things you have really started excelling at. You’ve always been excited about science and what makes things happen, and why. You will still need to work hard at basic math and reading, but it seems like you pick up more and more each day. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you get to start a new grade, the bad news is you have the same teacher you didn’t like last year. As your mother shakes her head at me, thinking “I KILL YOU!”
One very large one is that in May you joined the Church and
were baptized. Your mother and I are
very happy and concerned about that at the same time. You are very young, but we’ve also seen the
way you react at Church. The way you
seem to understand basic doctrines of the bible. Now, though we feel more strongly the responsibility
that we direct you and teach you more from the Bible.
Some other changes are that you have learned the addiction
of video games, to our annoyance, as you ask on an hourly basis if you can play
Mario Brothers. Then when we do say yes,
you immediately ask if you can play too.
The sad thing is I’ve seen your mother play, and you are better off by
yourself. You do also like playing Math
Blasters on the computer, which I hope encourages you to learn your adding.
Well, we have a new baby on the way. We don’t know what it is right now, we do
know thankfully it’s only one. Of course
you’ve been hoping for a brother since sometime after Ruth. I don’t want to burst your bubble, but even
if you get a brother, there will be 7 years difference between the two of you.
This was also your first year to play t-ball, which was an
eye opening experience and a headache, at least from my perspective. I found out that helping to coach a baseball
team, is like living in a house of cats.
You might listen the first time, but then the next time you are digging
a hole, playing in the grass. You tell
one to put on a helmet, only to have him take it off before he gets to the batter’s
box. Not to mention trying to teach you
to throw the baseball properly, or swing level, instead of acting like you are
chopping a tree down with an ax. You did
get to meet more kids our age in the area, make friends, burn some energy, and
you did improve even if you couldn’t understand why we didn’t keep score. You got your first trophy over which you were
VERY excited and stole my hat, because you lost yours.
Momma also introduced a chore chart this year. You’ve improved a lot and taken on more
jobs. She has basic chores that you have
to do, but you have others that you can earn additional checkmarks, that you
then get to cash in for quarters on pay day.
Each week you can earn money, and then we talk about different things we
want to do with our money. One is to
save for big items, one is to give to the Church, and another is for spend on
small items. Momma and I hope to use
this to teach you first about giving to Church and others, but also to have a
goal of saving money, for example you want a particular toy at the zoo right
now that is $6, so you should have that money in a couple weeks’ time. I help you count it out, and hand the money
to the cashier so you get a sense of how much it is, how long it took you to
earn that money, that you worked to earn.
It means more when you buy stuff.
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| All photos 7/8/2015 |
I love you son, I hope that this next year will lead to more adventures and knowledge that we get to learn new things every day.
Daddy
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