Shane 38 Months- December 28, 2011

Dear Shane-
This is the last letter I will write you for 2011, it has been a fast year but a GREAT year! There is a big difference between being two years old and three years old, I wont' get into all of the changes now but I love watching you grow and learn new things every day and night. I remember when you couldn't even crawl and then when you did start crawling you couldn't crawl over the doorway threshold! But now, you are running around the house talking and yelling- catch me Mommy , catch me mommy! of course with a BIG smile on your face!

December has been a busy month for us- as you now know, it is the month that Baby Jesus was born and you like to tell everyone that you meet that you saw the baby Jesus. We saw the baby Jesus at Nana's church during the Christmas pageant and also at the live Nativity Scene in Wakefield. On Christmas day you sang your favorite song to date (Happy Birthday) to the Baby Jesus! I love hearing you sing that song or any song for that matter. You had a few visits to Santa- at the bank in Belmont, the mall and most recently at the Enchanted Village at Jordan's furniture- each time you warmed up to the big S. a little bit more but you still were not 100% excited to be sitting on his lap! That's O.K. you sat there for the photograph and let Jackson do all of the talking to Santa- he didn't say much except that you and Jackson were leaving Santa cookies and carrots for the reindeer- and milk of course milk. On Christmas eve we made cookies for Santa and left out the cookies along with a photograph of you so that he could remember meeting you. Mommy, Daddy and Nana took you to see the lights at the Stone Zoo and you loved running all around there and riding the carousel- of course you wanted to be with Daddy on the carousel but you enjoyed it and waved to mommy and Nana none the less. We visited with Auntie Kim and her 3 boys a bit during the month and you loved playing with Caleb and the boys- in fact you got a little black eye when you were caught in the "pig pile" that was being supervised by daddy- but that's o.k. you had a great time and didn't really get hurt.

Shane you are asking more and more questions every day- Why this, Why that , why why why... You also like to pretend a lot- last month I think you liked to be a Kittie cat, well this week you like playing frog- yes, a frog, you hop around on all fours saying ribit, ribit, ribit..... don't ask me why or who turned you onto Frogs but you like them. We'll have to be sure to tell Auntie Val that since she used to love Frogs. You got some bongos and a glockenspiel for Christmas and have really enjoyed playing them, in fact you had a music parade with Nana the other day in the play room- singing songs and playing instruments!

I love you Shane Kilday- you are such a cuddly little kid- you like to sleep with all of your stuffed animals in the bed, sometimes there isn't room for you in there and then sometimes like this morning you woke up at 6am (which is a good waking time) and crawled into bed with mommy and daddy- Jackson did the same except he kept yelling get up , get up and playing frog. You on the other hand, just cuddled into daddy and went back to sleep. Shane, you are mommy's sun, moon and stars. I love you with all of my heart!
Love- Mommy