Dear Boston,
Your birthday was almost a month ago, and I realized I never wrote you your letter! And I have so much to write about you! Oh Boston, I could not love you more kid. 5 and 6 were two of my VERY favorite years with you! I can't WAIT To see what year 7 brings. You're one of my favorite people to laugh and talk with. Still, you're the best big brother in the world. Always caring about your siblings safety and happiness. If anyone messes with Isaac? They better WATCH out. You are all over that. A kid at a park bumped Isaac with the swings and I had to hold you and Isaac, because you were both crying. You don't like to see your siblings sad or hurt. You did AMAZING in Kindergarten this last year. You showed what a leader you are, and made tons and tons of friends. You were the first in your class to make it to the Hall of Fame! Meaning you were on perfect behavior for 5 days! That's quite the accomplishment! Soccer and baseball were really fun for you this year. We were BUSY busy. You got to play in Daddy's baseball league, on the same fields, with some of the same coaches that Dad had!
You've become an excellent reader and every night we read books together. I read a page. You read a page. We still love to cook, jump, and play catch together. Dad is still your favorite person on the planet, but me and the rest of the family come in a close second. :) We get a kick out of the girls (whom we still refer to as babies!) Football has become your favorite sport these days. You play almost every morning at school drop off. You're now in first grade and doing amazing! We discovered this year just how powerful your mind is. You were starting to feel down about the school days feeling long, and you were crying when you had to go to school, so we talked about how our thoughts make literal grooves in our brains, and it makes it easier to go down certain thought paths the more we have them. So we started saying we need to build a new racetrack. So instead of sending your car down the, "school is so long, I hate school" race track, we started building a new one by telling ourselves sentences like, "I enjoy school. at school I get to see my friends. I always get to see my mom at the end of the day". I tricked you into building your new racetrack by telling you a story about you and Isaac switching lives for a day, and as I told the story I would ask you about what Isaac would do at school, what would his favorite parts of the day be etc..." then half way through the story you said, "Hey! You're tricking me! You put new grooves in my brain!" I said I didn't know what you were talking about, but you said, "Well, it's working!" You asked me if I would keep tricking you every night, and I said that I would continue to help you build that race track until you could do it on your own. And ever since that night, you have done GREAT and not had one hard day at school! You even say many of your days feel short! That's amazing Boston! Your mind is so powerful. It was a good example to me of how powerful our minds are. Your self discipline and determination astound me.
Your best friends these days are Brogan, Charlie, and Dallin. :) You love playing with our neighbor Braxton too. Your birthday party was fun and crazy this year! We celebrated at the Gym with 17 friends! All boys! We ate pizza and popcorn, had ice cream, opened presents, played flag football, and played on a blowup obstacle course. It was the loudest mini frat party I've ever been to. ;) At one point the boys were all shouting, "CHUG CHUG CHUG!" as one kid guzzled his water bottle. Every other night (on my tuck in turns) I sing you your songs "To make you feel my love", "I will love you" and "Fix you". You still love those songs...and your cous cous. :) We love you so much Boston. We love your smile and your laugh. We love all of your fun conversations, and deep questions. I love talking about happy things, and all the hard things too. You're one of my favorite people, and ALWAYS ALWAYS will be. It's been pure joy watching you grow up into this cool, friendly, good, kind, awesome kid.
Happy birthday Boston!!!
Love,
Mama
