Dear Dimitri,
Soon, you will be 18 months old – 1.5 years! This is known to be an incredible milestone age for young ones. Many believe this is when children shift into consciousness, starting to understand their emotions and others’ too! Dimitri, you officially shifted about 1.5 months ago. The growth in you is REMARKABLE. You went from saying a handful of words to now being able to converse with us. You are TALKING! When the heck did that happen? And my God are you ever cute when you do it. Can there be more beautiful words than “Mami”, “Dadi”, “I-wa-ou” (I Love You), and “Kalinihta”? You shush me and then whisper “akou” and make me listen to your heartbeat. You have a variety of teddybears that you’ve named (Manon the monkey, Dino the Dino, Bear, Sheep and MANAAAAANO (MEGAAAAALO)). I want to write all these words down to remember forever. Your father and I have attempted to videotape as much as possible to keep these memories all our lives. Dimitri, you are a miracle.
You are forever learning, reading your books alone now and pretending to read the words. You dance around, rake leaves with us, take walks with us, colour (with your favourite colour “BWWWOWN”), run, play peek-a-boo and feed us. Dimitri, I wish I could take these moments and store them in a box, open that box up whenever I am away from you and re-live them over & over. There is nothing more miraculous than you, my angel.
Happy 18 months my dear son. I can only hope that you will always live such a happy, beautiful life. Carefree and giddy.
I love you.