Dear Carver,

This is a late post, but I can explain. We celebrated your 3rd birthday in Taiwan. We actually landed on November 16th, so I didn’t get to write anything. We had a birthday for you in early December at the La Habra Children’s Museum. I think you had a blast!

You are three now and you are growing so much. I think you know most of your letters and numbers. You know how to count to 20… sort of. I’m not really too worried about that kind of stuff anymore. You’ll eventually know how to count and you will eventually know all your letters.

You are quite the artist. You seem to like to draw and you have really good control with the pencil (but you don’t seem to hold the pencil correctly, so I don’t know how that’s going to turn out down the line). You know how to write a couple of easy letters and Japanese characters.

You are absolutely the sweetest kid. I really hope you don’t change. A couple of weeks ago you wanted to give away all of your birthday presents to kids without toys because they don’t have anything and you have too much stuff.

You’re doing really well in school. Soon, in about a year, you will be headed toward transitional kindergarten. Not exactly full blown kindergarten, but more like practice kindergarten. I think you’ll do just fine. I just hope you don’t end up copying any bad habits from other kids. Right now, you sort of walk to the beat of your own drum, but I don’t know what will happen when you get older.

Anyways, happy belated birthday, Carver.

Love you always,

Mom