Dear Great-Aunt Lucy,
Mommy says maybe I should just call you Aunt Lucy, but I am not sure why. I asked her if she didn’t think you were great and she said, no, she did think so, so I don’t know why she is concerned. I will leave it the way it is.
As you can tell I am writing you a birthday letter. I hope you are having a very happy and special birthday. Are you doing some fun things today? I had a birthday recently and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I had cake and candles and lots of presents and many people visiting me. It was really neat! Mommy says birthdays will get less special as I have more of them but in the meantime I should enjoy it. But I hope you are enjoying yours even if you have had more than me.
Well, guess what happened this morning! It snowed! I have seen it snowing before but this is the first time this winter that it has snowed enough for me to play in it a little. Already it is melting away but this morning Mommy and I went out and stomped around in it. I drove my car in it, too. We made lots of footprints, and then we made some snowballs, and I looked at the little bitty snowflakes, and we also built a tiny snowman. He is so tiny that he wears a leaf for a hat.
Last week I had my check-up at the doctor’s office. It was kind of fun. I was very cooperative and opened my mouth wide and let the doctor look in my mouth and ears and eyes. He listened to my heart and poked my belly too. He was nice and funny. Mommy asked him some questions and he said I am healthy. I am almost three feet tall. I didn’t have to get any shots this time. I am very glad because I don’t like shots at all. They hurt. Do you ever have to get shots, Great-Aunt Lucy? Do you cry?
The day after my doctor’s appointment some people came over for supper. It was my friend Joseph, the boy Mommy used to babysit. It was fun to see him! I didn’t really remember him, but we had a great time playing together. His big sister was there too. She is either seven or eight years old, I am not quite sure exactly. We ran around and around and played with toys and listened to music and read books while all the big people sat and talked. I think we had more fun than they did but Mommy says she enjoyed it. I guess as long as we all had fun it’s okay, huh?
Speaking of having fun, Mommy is thinking about putting me in preschool in the fall. She and Daddy have to talk about it some more but she thinks it would be fun for me and also a good experience. She says I need to interact with other kids and have some new experiences that I don’t have at home. I don’t know what “interact” and “experience” mean but they sound like they might be okay. I would like to play with all the toys there. We are going to visit on Thursday and meet the teachers and see what it is like. I really like playing in the nursery at church so I’m excited about it.
Has it been very cold where you live? It was very, very cold here. One day Mommy said we shouldn’t go outside at all because it was too cold. Another day we did take a walk but Mommy bundled me up very warm and then put a blanket all over me so I couldn’t even see. I didn’t mind because it kept me nice and warm! We didn’t stay outside very long. Daddy also made a heater for the chickens. He put a lightbulb inside a flowerpot and put it in their coop. He says it helped but I am sure they were still cold out there. But they are okay and it is warmer now, so that is good.
Well, I wish you a happy birthday, and so does Mommy! I wish I could bake you a cake but Mommy doesn’t let me use the oven yet. So you will have to pretend that you have a cake from me with candles that you can blow out. I think that is the best part of a birthday. Every time I see a picture of candles I try to blow them out.
Love,
Isaac
P.S. This is your birthday letter but you can read it to Great-Grandma if you want to. I will probably wait until next week to write again so I have some new stories to tell. I will tell about going to visit the preschool.