Dear Persephone, Oops. You made thirty-five months yesterday, but I didn’t realize it until I was lying down in bed last night. So this letter…
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Dear Persephone, Oops. You made thirty-five months yesterday, but I didn’t realize it until I was lying down in bed last night. So this letter…
Dear Persephone, You’re thirty-four months old today, but there’s a lot of other things going on as well. For one, there was a full lunar…
Dear Persephone, You sure are getting big. I know this because you tell me about it. Constantly. “I’m big. I’m big. I’m so big. I’m…
Dear Persephone, On the first of this month, as we were riding the bicycle on our way home from a meeting, I heard you exclaim,…
Dear Persephone, Somewhere in the last month your temper has taken a turn for the worse. Don’t get me wrong, you are still sweet and…
Dear Persephone, A friend recently asked me if we would be having a party for your half-birthday. That conjured images of yet more presents. Trust…
Dear Persephone, It’s finally happened. Your imagination has caught fire, and I’ve been drawn into your fantasy world on several occasions. Granted, you’ve had an…
Dear Persephone, When I ask how old you are, you’ve learned to say “two and a quarter.” But I guess now you’ll have to learn…
Dear Persephone, For some reason, I didn’t realize you were old enough to appreciate stories. I mean, even though I read you storybooks every night,…
Dear Persephone, You are fully into the “all by self” phase which I guess is pretty famous for kids your age. You want to do…
Dear Persephone, I’ve set it in my mind that I’d write you a letter every month for the first hundred months of your life. It…
Dear Persephone, So much has gone on in the past month. Let’s see — the Saints won the Super Bowl. You’re too young to appreciate…
Dear Persephone, You are twenty-three months old today. Recently your have begun formulating simple sentences, and in the last month I’ve noticed you have begun…
Dear Persephone, You’re twenty-two months old as of yesterday. Not long ago I had a fleeting vision of what you might be like when you…
Dear Persephone, A lot has sure happened in the last month. Most notably, perhaps, we moved to a new house. I know moving can be…
Dear Persephone, You are twenty months old today, and growing fast. One day recently I picked you up from daycare and I swear I could…
Dear Persephone, Since I see you every day I sometimes don’t notice the incremental changes. You still just look so tiny to me, and even…
Dear Persephone, It’s your half-birthday today. You’re one and a half years old. Sometime over the past month you made a big transition. You went…
Dear Persephone, Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Of course I have to add a few hundred words of my own. You’ve been…
Dear Persephone, I mentioned it last month, but since then your nascent love of books has exploded into an all-out obsession. You will sometimes go…