Dear Mom and Dad,
This is Sunday, April is almost over, and I am writing tonights love letter as my mommy is about to embark on her second tour of duty in Iraq.
I will not say good bye to mom, because, I prefer to be HALF FULL like my poppy taught my mom to always be….. always look at everything with a full heart and a positive twist. So I say… see ya soon mommy… I will be right here waiting for you at camp, and I will fill your days and nights with my letters and photos, and dreams of what it will be when we are all together again. I promise to write every day… and I love you forever.
Let me tell you about today… not only was it “all hands on” Sunday with all my Aunts at home…but we were spontaneous… and we made a quick lunch plan…that worked out for everyone…
Today, Nana and Poppy drove me to Flint, where we met Great Aunt Ida and Cuz Nanc for lunch…. Papa and GG-ma joined us, and we all sat and visited while I looked my usual adorable self. We kept thinking, how nice it would have been to have you there, but you know what IF YOU AND DADDY WERE THERE we wouldn’t have been at that place eating… DADDY WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO EAT AT SONICS, instead…right daddy? But seriously you were both in our hearts and minds. Hey where is Nanc… where is Aunt Alyx… where is Papa and GG-ma. You’d think with all the practice Nana gets with the darn camera she could have gotten one photo with everyone, but no… her head would be lost if not attached to her body these days…
So since my nana was not thinking and didn’t get Aunt Alyx in the picture as she is hiding behing Aunt Allyssa…. below is Aunt Alyx, unbenounced to her… Nana is a sneak…
Nana certainly will not make herself too popular with that big black camera of hers, but she says, it is okay, because everyone here wants you to know how much they love me, and they want you to have real pictures, of what my days are like… REAL PEOPLE, REAL PHOTOS, REAL CAMP FUN… so here are all the pics from our lunch… personally, I love them, because they will all be in my scrapbook for years to come.
Here is Aunt Nanc with her mom… one day, this will be you and me mom, and daddy already got me a pair of sunglasses just like they have… I had a VERY fun time in Flint.
Here is GG-ma and Papa… with LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, me!
You are going to work for a bit, but now that deployment is here, and we have made it through the waiting, and moving that had to happen first, we are really closer to building our future together… even if we are apart. I am doing my share… learning exactly how little princess’ eat, and sleep, and coo and play, just for you two. You will be so impressed I am sure. When you come back to the United States, you will have earned a living that will make for a great start in our new home together. Maybe Nana will teach me how to pick up crayons, I could be very good at painting and designing the walls in a new home… or maybe Nana will teach me some of mommy’s old tricks, and all the other Aunts, I can learn about all the little tricks you guys played on Nana and Poppy when you were little. She says, that will keep me busy the whole time you are deployed. ARE YOU READY FOR THAT MOM..? Aunt Allyssa says she has the drawing of stars down pat, on just about any surface…LOL, I will bet I can master that art… what do you think? Probably not by December, but Nana assures me I will have a lifetime to show off all the little things a princess can do to ENRICH the days and nights of a mom and a dad.
Not that I would really know a lot about this stuff…. but they say in most cases it takes nine months for a baby to be born, some of us – in a bit of a hurry – well, we come sooner, but not to offend any of the Michiganders who read this, I must be the bearer of bad news…. in just nine months it will be December… and there will be plenty of snow for daddy to build snowmen in, and most certainly the perfect weather for a princess’ first birthday party. In just nine months! I hear your R&R is scheduled for the end of November into the first part of December, and hopefully you will be here just in time to have a Thanksgiving feast, no matter what day you get here… WE WILL ALL BE THANKFUL, and an amazingly awesome birthday cake, and you can count on about a bazillion hugs and kisses. If we take small steps, and just get to the end of each month, before you know it, we will be in a Michigan Winterwonderland, and we will be celebrating my first birthday together. So just think, in about the same time it took for me to arrive here… we will see each other again, and it will be PARTY…MY CRIB…. TWO AM… !
I have shared my photo op time with everyone today, and yes this is a long letter, but I don’t know when you will get on line to see me and wanted you to have GREAT PICTURES TO PUT INTO YOUR HEAD FOR THE LONG TRIP…. they can spin around inside your head, and will be your secret energy boost.
Here I am trying to reach for a bunny that poppy was holding, and I am verbally telling him… I want it NOW… in the most polite princess way! That and … I am done with tummy time!
I have put more pictures into this love letter than any in the past, as I said, wanting you to have your fill of photos in your head for the trip…
I am thinking here, and I am learning, but mostly mommy I am loving being your daughter, and will make you so proud just like you make your mom and your dad…
I will say good nite for now, and I will see you soon mommy, just remember that I will always be your Little Miss Adorable, and your daughter,
and always your princess…
L I T T L E
M I S S
A B S O L U T E L Y
A D O R A B L E
Guillianna!
Lisa
you give Auntie Sam the number here at Camp… if she ever has any news about you and daddy she can let us know how it is going for you…and let all of us know how my cuz is doing…. okay?
We had dinner with GGma, and Papa, and Nana heard from Great Grandma Sally today too.. we had a good day!