Dear Halen Girl,
Wow, today you start pre-school for the last time. This is your third year at Bethany School and I am so excited to see what you will learn.
You are such a delight, daddy and I love learning about the creative mind, energetic spirit, and performing ballerina that is blooming within you.
I know this year you will have an awesome year learning how to write and maybe even how to read. You will get to make new friends and unlock all that is yet to surface within that beautiful brain of yours.
You are also starting dance this year... at your first dance class it was so much fun watching you learn all the ballet steps and how to tap dance.
You will continue swim classes this year too. We will keep in touch with Sheridan, Camryn, Reese, and Owen as you enter a class of new students.
Let the creative juices flow my love. Always be confident in yourself, you are the only ever YOU and Jesus wanted you to be Halen, no one else. I want you to be happy always because you have Jesus in your heart.
It is so fun watching you grow and learning about who you are becoming. God created you with a special gift and daddy and I are so excited to see what that is. We promise to nurture it, support you and encourage you every step of the way.
Happy first day of pre-k 4 Halen girl. I love you more than every star in the Rocky Mountain sky and more than ever grain of sand on the Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Love,
Mommy
Monday, September 3, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Mama’s Love
My Halen girl. You made me a mommy. You entered my world and everything changed. Your presence taught me wheat true love is. I love you more than I can even put into words.
I love your gorgeous hair, those blueberry eyes, I love your energy and huge heart. I am so proud of your tenacity and your empathy for others. Your sense of adventure keeps me on my toes.
Always be kind, no matter what. Be a leader for jesus. Befriend everyone...the sad, the shy, the unwanted, the loud, the messy. Be humble. Whenever you are unsure use Jesus as your compass, he will guide you down the right path. Be classy, work hard and never lost sight of who you are. Jesus knows every hair on your head Halen and he has a grand plan for your life. Your sister is your best friend. Daddy is your prince- always stray close. YaYa adores you. Papa cherishes you. Enna is your god mother, she will always be there. She promised to love you and guide you in life.
I love you more than every grain of sand on the sleeping bear dunes...more than every star in the Rocky Mountain sky.
I love you I love you I love you.
Mommy
I love your gorgeous hair, those blueberry eyes, I love your energy and huge heart. I am so proud of your tenacity and your empathy for others. Your sense of adventure keeps me on my toes.
Always be kind, no matter what. Be a leader for jesus. Befriend everyone...the sad, the shy, the unwanted, the loud, the messy. Be humble. Whenever you are unsure use Jesus as your compass, he will guide you down the right path. Be classy, work hard and never lost sight of who you are. Jesus knows every hair on your head Halen and he has a grand plan for your life. Your sister is your best friend. Daddy is your prince- always stray close. YaYa adores you. Papa cherishes you. Enna is your god mother, she will always be there. She promised to love you and guide you in life.
I love you more than every grain of sand on the sleeping bear dunes...more than every star in the Rocky Mountain sky.
I love you I love you I love you.
Mommy
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Ballerina Birthday Party- FOUR
Today was your birthday party.... it was fantastic!
We had it at Yaya's house.
Everything was pink, including the food, just like you wanted.
Menu:
Pink Noodle Salad
Pink Hummus with veggies, sweet potato chips, beets, purple potato chips and plaintains with pink Himalayan sea salt
Spinach dip
Dogs & Cheese
Watermelon & Purple Grapes
Strawberry Wafer cookies
Pink Ballerina Cookies
Pink Lemonade
Cake: Vanilla spice + chocolate cake with pink buttercream frosting
Miss Caiti came over as a pink ballerina and she taught a ballet class and played games with you! She was amazing. You learned to pirouette and leap and all the positions in dance.
We had a pinata filled with honey sticks, raisins, strawberry taffy and games. You were so strong hitting the pinata!
Your friends played and had so much fun!
You had Piper, Presley, Brooklyn, Sheridan, Camryn, Reese, James, Lincoln, Ellie, Crash, Jager, Atlas, Addy, Capri, Charley all there to play with!
It was an awesome time. You wore a real ballerina tutu with real ballerina hair!
For presents you received some awesome books, a jump rope, yoyo, beautiful tutu outfit, stickers and more amazing books.
We loved celebrating you today Halen Rae Carol Wiatrek.
You were a gorgeous, fun-loving ballerina today. Please always be humble, gentle, grateful and kind. Remember presents are nice, but good company is always better!
Love you baby girl,
Mommy
We had it at Yaya's house.
Everything was pink, including the food, just like you wanted.
Menu:
Pink Noodle Salad
Pink Hummus with veggies, sweet potato chips, beets, purple potato chips and plaintains with pink Himalayan sea salt
Spinach dip
Dogs & Cheese
Watermelon & Purple Grapes
Strawberry Wafer cookies
Pink Ballerina Cookies
Pink Lemonade
Cake: Vanilla spice + chocolate cake with pink buttercream frosting
Miss Caiti came over as a pink ballerina and she taught a ballet class and played games with you! She was amazing. You learned to pirouette and leap and all the positions in dance.
We had a pinata filled with honey sticks, raisins, strawberry taffy and games. You were so strong hitting the pinata!
Your friends played and had so much fun!
You had Piper, Presley, Brooklyn, Sheridan, Camryn, Reese, James, Lincoln, Ellie, Crash, Jager, Atlas, Addy, Capri, Charley all there to play with!
It was an awesome time. You wore a real ballerina tutu with real ballerina hair!
For presents you received some awesome books, a jump rope, yoyo, beautiful tutu outfit, stickers and more amazing books.
We loved celebrating you today Halen Rae Carol Wiatrek.
You were a gorgeous, fun-loving ballerina today. Please always be humble, gentle, grateful and kind. Remember presents are nice, but good company is always better!
Love you baby girl,
Mommy
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Conversations with our Four year Old
May 3, 2018: "Mommy I teach you, echo me: hello neighbor, what do you say, it's gonna be a happy day, greet your neighbor, boogie on down, give a bump and turn around!" "Faster!" It was so fun spending the day with you today birthday girl.
May 5, 2018: "A real ballerina tutu!" "Daddy, get in line let me teach you ballet. Ash-a-tay! Go daddy, ash-a-tay!" (At your birthday party)
May 14, 2018: Halen at breakfast said, “Henley that is your tummy not your heart. Your heart is up here. That’s where Jesus is.” 😍
May 19, 2018: “When I have my 18th birthday, I want an Elsa party and when I am 25 I want a Rapunzel party.” 😂
May 22, 2018: Daddy was getting a haircut from YaYa and you said, “Daddy I can’t reach your chin through your beard. Will you be different with a shortcut?”
June 1, 2018 I was putting Henley down and you came in with Enna’s high school picture and said, “here Henley you can hold this picture during nap so you know Enna is always with you and then you won’t be sad.” 😍 So sweet Halen.
June 4, 2018: I told you we had a make up swim class and you said, “What kind of make up should I wear mommy? Can you put some lips on me?” It made us laugh, so funny! 💋
June 8, 2018: On our road trip driving to Kentucky you said, “Henley want to have a conversation with me?” It was so cute.
June 13, 2018: “You can’t sleep when you’re squished.” Your response to Henley squashing a snail you found and I told you the snail was now sleeping in Heaven. You’re a smart, funny girl Halen!
June 17, 2018: While sitting on the potty you said, “Mommy, I love your voice.” My heart just melted...I love everything about you baby girl.
June 20, 2018: We we’re walking to downtown Charlevoix and you stopped and said,”Daddy I have something in my shoe! It hurts! Is it a shark tooth or something??” So so so funny Halen girl!
May 5, 2018: "A real ballerina tutu!" "Daddy, get in line let me teach you ballet. Ash-a-tay! Go daddy, ash-a-tay!" (At your birthday party)
May 14, 2018: Halen at breakfast said, “Henley that is your tummy not your heart. Your heart is up here. That’s where Jesus is.” 😍
May 19, 2018: “When I have my 18th birthday, I want an Elsa party and when I am 25 I want a Rapunzel party.” 😂
May 22, 2018: Daddy was getting a haircut from YaYa and you said, “Daddy I can’t reach your chin through your beard. Will you be different with a shortcut?”
June 1, 2018 I was putting Henley down and you came in with Enna’s high school picture and said, “here Henley you can hold this picture during nap so you know Enna is always with you and then you won’t be sad.” 😍 So sweet Halen.
June 4, 2018: I told you we had a make up swim class and you said, “What kind of make up should I wear mommy? Can you put some lips on me?” It made us laugh, so funny! 💋
June 8, 2018: On our road trip driving to Kentucky you said, “Henley want to have a conversation with me?” It was so cute.
June 13, 2018: “You can’t sleep when you’re squished.” Your response to Henley squashing a snail you found and I told you the snail was now sleeping in Heaven. You’re a smart, funny girl Halen!
June 17, 2018: While sitting on the potty you said, “Mommy, I love your voice.” My heart just melted...I love everything about you baby girl.
June 20, 2018: We we’re walking to downtown Charlevoix and you stopped and said,”Daddy I have something in my shoe! It hurts! Is it a shark tooth or something??” So so so funny Halen girl!
Fierce, Fantastic FOUR
Halen Rae Carol...you are four years old today. My gorgeous, vibrant, busy, talkative, strong-willed, leader. I am so proud of you. This year has been a tough one, but you have been such a joy and light in my life and the lives of those around you.
You are loving pre-school at Bethany, you talk about being the line leader, loving movement, singing songs in music class, art and playing mommy at pretend time. You really love your friend Sheridan in class.
You are thick as thieves with your daddy, you tell us he is your prince and you will marry him one day. You love using daddy as a jungle gym, riding bikes together, going to the coffee shop and trips to Home Depot.
You are mommy's helper, I love spending my Tuesdays and Thursdays with you, we try to have fun outings, bake, play games, watch movies and play in the playroom. You love playing outside, swinging, collecting bugs, looking up at the trees, watching our windmill blow in the breeze, pull Henley in the wagon and have picnic lunches on your picnic table.
You and Henley are becoming the best of friends...you are playing together more and more. You love momming her (which frustrates mommy and daddy sometimes, but we know you mean well), she loves you so much. You are the first words out of her mouth in the morning, "Where's Halen?" It is the sweetest.
You love your friend Piper June, neighbor, Brooklyn, and Camryn. They are your favorites so far in life. We play dress up with Piper, play outside with Brooklyn, and have playdates with Camryn.
We are enjoying our small group this year with Capri, Charley, Owen, Jayden, Cayden, Bennett, Oliver, Ophelia, Clover, Josiah, and Brielle.
You have grown so much this year, you are truly your own person...determined, you love structure, you love being given responsibilities, you love helping others, you love doing bible study, you LOVE to perform. You are in swim lessons at Emler, and they just moved you up to the next class. You are in gymnastics and you seem to love it. You want to start dance, and we got you a real ballerina tutu leotard to wear to dance classes we are putting you into in the fall.
Our relationship has grown so much this year as you've watched mommy battle cancer. We talk about everything. We have cried together, hugged, cuddled, laughed, played, rejoiced, and prayed.
We really love living back in our house, spring break was a blast in Colorado, we are excited to head north for our summer vacation to Michigan in a month.
Today you woke at 6 am with pink balloons everywhere, you had pink roses and gifts on the kitchen table... from daddy and I you got dresses, supergirl panties, summer stickers, a ballerina tutu leotard, a pretty diffuser, athletic shorts. From Henley you got swim shoes and a rash guard for this summer. Nene got you a cute jumper and flip flops. Our neighbors, Jan and Al got you princess books. Then you had chocolate chip waffles with blueberries. Yaya came over and on our way to Sweet Berry Farm you got a chocolate "brossant" (your favorite), then we met your cousins, Crash and Jager at the farm. You jumped on the giant jumpy, went on a tractor ride, fed goats, said hello to horses, painted a flower pot and picked strawberries! It was so much fun. You were so excited to spend the day with your cousins, you all held hands and laughed so much today. We had lunch by the lake and Yaya brought you a special cupcake. Then we drove back into town and you went with mommy to get your nails done. You chose sparkly purple for your toes and sparkly gold for your fingers. It was beautiful. We looked at pictures of you in my belly and your birth-day and when you were so little. Then we came home to celebrate you being born at 4:43 pm. We played out front with our neighbors, Mr. Adam, Ms. Rachel, Brooklyn and Parks...ate popsicles, played on bikes. Then we went inside for family showers before your birthday dinner of corndogs, mac n cheese, green peas and blueberries. Then you had an ice cream cake with chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream and light pink icing that read, "Happy birthday Halen!" Then we played in the playroom and you got to fall asleep cuddling in mommy and daddy's bed. I think it was a pretty spectacular day my love bug. We have your ballerina birthday party on Saturday to celebrate too.
I love you my blueberry eyed baby girl. You are my darling, my star, my beloved sweetheart. Thank you for being my daughter, thank you for choosing me. I am so grateful to God for your presence in my life. I am looking forward to watching you grow, our talks and memories we will make this next year.
I love you more than every star in the Rocky Mountain sky and every grain of sand on the Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Love,
Mommy
You are loving pre-school at Bethany, you talk about being the line leader, loving movement, singing songs in music class, art and playing mommy at pretend time. You really love your friend Sheridan in class.
You are thick as thieves with your daddy, you tell us he is your prince and you will marry him one day. You love using daddy as a jungle gym, riding bikes together, going to the coffee shop and trips to Home Depot.
You are mommy's helper, I love spending my Tuesdays and Thursdays with you, we try to have fun outings, bake, play games, watch movies and play in the playroom. You love playing outside, swinging, collecting bugs, looking up at the trees, watching our windmill blow in the breeze, pull Henley in the wagon and have picnic lunches on your picnic table.
You and Henley are becoming the best of friends...you are playing together more and more. You love momming her (which frustrates mommy and daddy sometimes, but we know you mean well), she loves you so much. You are the first words out of her mouth in the morning, "Where's Halen?" It is the sweetest.
You love your friend Piper June, neighbor, Brooklyn, and Camryn. They are your favorites so far in life. We play dress up with Piper, play outside with Brooklyn, and have playdates with Camryn.
We are enjoying our small group this year with Capri, Charley, Owen, Jayden, Cayden, Bennett, Oliver, Ophelia, Clover, Josiah, and Brielle.
You have grown so much this year, you are truly your own person...determined, you love structure, you love being given responsibilities, you love helping others, you love doing bible study, you LOVE to perform. You are in swim lessons at Emler, and they just moved you up to the next class. You are in gymnastics and you seem to love it. You want to start dance, and we got you a real ballerina tutu leotard to wear to dance classes we are putting you into in the fall.
Our relationship has grown so much this year as you've watched mommy battle cancer. We talk about everything. We have cried together, hugged, cuddled, laughed, played, rejoiced, and prayed.
We really love living back in our house, spring break was a blast in Colorado, we are excited to head north for our summer vacation to Michigan in a month.
Today you woke at 6 am with pink balloons everywhere, you had pink roses and gifts on the kitchen table... from daddy and I you got dresses, supergirl panties, summer stickers, a ballerina tutu leotard, a pretty diffuser, athletic shorts. From Henley you got swim shoes and a rash guard for this summer. Nene got you a cute jumper and flip flops. Our neighbors, Jan and Al got you princess books. Then you had chocolate chip waffles with blueberries. Yaya came over and on our way to Sweet Berry Farm you got a chocolate "brossant" (your favorite), then we met your cousins, Crash and Jager at the farm. You jumped on the giant jumpy, went on a tractor ride, fed goats, said hello to horses, painted a flower pot and picked strawberries! It was so much fun. You were so excited to spend the day with your cousins, you all held hands and laughed so much today. We had lunch by the lake and Yaya brought you a special cupcake. Then we drove back into town and you went with mommy to get your nails done. You chose sparkly purple for your toes and sparkly gold for your fingers. It was beautiful. We looked at pictures of you in my belly and your birth-day and when you were so little. Then we came home to celebrate you being born at 4:43 pm. We played out front with our neighbors, Mr. Adam, Ms. Rachel, Brooklyn and Parks...ate popsicles, played on bikes. Then we went inside for family showers before your birthday dinner of corndogs, mac n cheese, green peas and blueberries. Then you had an ice cream cake with chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream and light pink icing that read, "Happy birthday Halen!" Then we played in the playroom and you got to fall asleep cuddling in mommy and daddy's bed. I think it was a pretty spectacular day my love bug. We have your ballerina birthday party on Saturday to celebrate too.
I love you my blueberry eyed baby girl. You are my darling, my star, my beloved sweetheart. Thank you for being my daughter, thank you for choosing me. I am so grateful to God for your presence in my life. I am looking forward to watching you grow, our talks and memories we will make this next year.
I love you more than every star in the Rocky Mountain sky and every grain of sand on the Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Love,
Mommy
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