to mom. from us. with love.

dear mom,

while we've been waiting, we've been fishing and learning and watching winter turn into spring turn into summer and playing the recorder and taking silly pictures and training and skiing and watching sunrises and swinging and growing and running and photographing and commuting and working and watching flowers bloom and getting face washes and going to gymnastics and building homes for orphans and coloring and sunbathing on the deck of dad's boat and learning to read and writing our names and growing pigtails and building cabinets and sniffing things and planting and playing games and fishing and hiking and planning music festivals and swimming and curling our tongues and making paper hearts and biking and building fences and skiing and fishing and laughing and crying and missing and wishing and hoping and living and waiting.

and we can't wait to share it all with you.
happy birthday with love from all of us.

(to clarify, the dogs have been sniffing things. not us.)