Kennywood Pictures
 

Micah and mommy riding the rides at Kennywood this year.

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one more picture !

It looks like the two of you were having a great time!!! I must say Haley..I envy you...you don't look that much older than Micah!!! You lucky girl!!!

:p Thanks to hair color, wrinkle cream, teeth whitner, and one meal a day LOL !!
But thank you for the compliment... I try....

Janet as soon as i get my Ubs cord back from my friend i'll download the Living Treasure pictures for you....

Nice pictures, Haley!! Micah is so adorable and, like Janet said, you look very young! It looks like you picked a really good day because I don't see hardly any other people.

Thanks Diane, we went early in the morning and i went striaght to kiddy land, oh we had so much fun, it was great spending the day with my family... eating ice cream and cottin candy.. love it, made me feel young again... i just didn't care for the spinning rides, my mom called me a sissy :D

ps: he is adorable isn't he... the bestest ever !!!!

:D precious pictures, what a fun day!
Ditto to the previous posts as well :thumbup:

Great pictures of the 2 of you together.

Haley Micah is so handsome and I must agree with Janet you look like his older sister.. your a cutie to...:) Looks like you had a great time..

Aww Thanks everyone for the compliments :blush::blush: greatly appreciated!!!
Believe me!!!! We had so much fun this summer, so sorry its over...
Lets see, I took him to Disney world, went to Kennywood, living treasures, swimming a bunch of times, nightly walks.. can't wait to next summer.. have to see where were going to go next year for vacation.... I must say i'm reliving my childhood with that boy and loving every min. of it.. We didn't have that much money to do all the things i can do for him and it feel so good !!! Thank God!!!
I still want to take him to the zoo for Boo fest in October, i think he'll like that too...

Just a word of caution Haley...don't wish time away...my precious little boy is a senior in high school and taking college courses. He'll never be that little again, so enjoy it and now wish any of it to hurry. If I can find this article, I'll post it for you.

I found it. This is from an Ann Landers column in the newspaper. I cut it out about 10 years before Ricky was born so if and when I ever had a baby, I would pull this out and read it, that was over 27 years ago......so here goes....


Dear Ann Landers,

Recently my mother passed away. I was going through her belongings and found a letter she had written to me 22 years ago. She never gave me the letter. Why, I will never know. I would like to share it with you. Perhaps you may wish to share it with your readers. Sign me....A Faithful Reader from Montreal.


Dear Daughter:

It may seem strange for a mother to write a letter to a four-year-old child asleep in the next room. This letter won't mean anything to you now, but perhaps it will mean something later when you have a child of your own.

When you were an infant and the newness wore off, I couldn't wait until you grew up. At first I found myself wishing, "if only she'd start walking"...and then ..."if only she'd start talking..." One day I realized you were out of diapers. You were walking and talking and pretty soon you'd be going off to school.

I remember the morning your father and I brought your baby sister home from the hospital. You and I had been apart six days. When the door opened I saw you standing there with your angel smile. You seemed so big compared to the baby I was holding in my arms. It was hard to imagine that you were once that small. I suddenly realized how much of your babyhood I had wished away. It made me ashamed. My heart almost broke.

I cannot relive those first four years, but I have been trying to make them up to you and to myself. I hope and pray that when your first child is born you will be more mature than I was. I hope you will enjoy every phase of your child's growing up and not wish they would hurry and pass.

You and I will have our share of heated words and angry battles in the years to come. There will be days when we just can't plese each other. I will wish you were through with high school so I could send you to college and be rid of you. And then I will think back to that dear little face in the doorway and my anger will melt. I will realize you never again will as young as you are at this particular moment. Life rushes by too rapidly my darling daughter, especially the lovely days and the beautiful times. Be wiser than I. Don't let a single moment skip away unsavored or unappreciated. All my love , Mother.

Dear Montreal Reader: what a treasure! Thank you for sharing. I saw myself in your mother's letter and I shall phone my daughter today to make sure she reads it.

:cry2::cry2:Janet! i am in tears over here, i just meant when i typed that, i can't wait to see where were going next summer for vacation, i would never ever wish time away,, i hate it now that he is walking and somewhat talking, i still rock him to sleep everynight, and somehow he moved into our bed at night, but that's ok with me i love it when he rolls over in the middle of the night and holds me.. and gives me a big hug, i love waking up and just looking at him,,, i'm still amazed today that i made the perfect little boy! Thank God he sent me my angel.. i cherish ever min. i have with him... i love spending time with him, i just wish Mike made enough money that i could stay at home, but in the real world, i have to work... but thank you for that letter i will save that one.
I have a letter to that i typed for Micah when he was 6 months old, my sister has it in case something happens to me, i just wanted him to know how much i loved him.. ok i'm starting to cry again!

Haley, I didn't want you to cry, although it is a real tear jerker. I know you weren't really wishing time away, but we have all said things like what is in the letter...we just don't realize how soon it's going to happen and then be gone. I think that letter made me a better mother in so many ways and I just wanted to share it with you and all the other ladies. Every single time I read it, I get so teary eyed. What a wonderful letter from her mother to have been found by that woman. Like Ann Landers said..."what a treasure."

I already copied the letter, i loved it.
We'll when i was pregnant, i made a promise to God that if he gave me a perfect angel, i would try my hardest to be a perfect Mom, and i always make good on my promises.
My childhood wasn't the greatest, but i want to make sure Micah has wonderful memories of his..

My letter to my son MIcah!
 

Janet here is the letter i wrote when Micha was about 3 months old, let me know what you think.... it took days to write this, but in case something happen to me, i wanted Micah to know how much i loved him.



A mother’s letter to her son.


My letter to my dearest son Micah, I still can’t believe I am actually writing a mother letter to my dearest, sweetest, loving, gift from God, my son, Micah.

March 7, 2007 was the most wonderful day of my entire life; it was the day you were anxiously waiting to see the world. Micah you were born at Monongahela Valley Hospital at 3:28 pm, you were 8lbs 1 oz and 21 inches long… That was the most incredible, wonderful, emotional, exhilarating, day of our lives; I had to have an emergency c-section that day cause your little heart rate was dropping.
When I heard you cry I looked over at your Daddy and asked what my son looks like, and Daddy smiled at me and said “Kelly, he’s absolutely wonderful, perfect just perfect” and with tears in my eyes I asked Daddy to count your fingers and toes to make sure they were all there.. Of coarse that’s what Mommy’s do... Then as they scooted you passed me I caught a glimpse of you and you were absolutely beautiful, God sent me my angel boy... I was the happiest person, the proudest Mommy, in the world that day. A day I will cherish forever, the birth of my son. The day I became a mother!


After recovery was the first time I got to hold you, oh I remember that day like it was yesterday, I never knew it until that day I would ever love anyone the way I will always love you, I never in my life felt love like that until I held you in my arms, and my son you will understand one day what I am talking about when you have children, the love is just overwhelming, it’s just unexplainable… But I hope and pray one day you will feel that love and know what I am talking about, there is nothing like it in the world. The love a parent has for their child. And one day I pray you make me a Grandmother. That would be my second greatest day of my life.

As you journey though life, know that I will always be there for you, ALWAYS even when I leave this world my love for you I will take with me, and our memories I will leave with you. Know that people will come and go in your life, you will have people that love you, will be your friend forever and friends that will betray you, and girlfriends that will love you, will hurt you, you will have people that will do anything for you, give you there last dime, and you will be hurt by people, turn there backs on you when you need them the most, these people you want to stay far away from them, experience will teach you all of this. but time will heal all your pains, and faith will keep you alive, my son if anything in life I am going to teach you, I will teach you to believe in God and keep him close to your heart, God will never let you down, he will always be there to pick up and get you moving again, without God in your life you will have nothing! With God in your life you can and will achieve your greatest goals, you can be anything you put your mind to it... In difficult times pray for it. Talk to God everyday, God will stand by your side.
I pray every night you achieve and have everything you want in life, cause I love you. I wish for a better life for you and I want to see a better life for you...


Don’t rush to grow up, you’ll only long to be a child again, learn you cannot make anyone love you, all you can do is let yourself be loved, never compare yourself to others you are your own free spirit, learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness, learn to listen, let others talk, never talk mean nasty words especially to those you love, it may take many years to heal their hearts, know that there are people that love your dearly, but simply haven’t learned how to express or show their feelings, know that two people can look at the same thing but see it differently. Be giving to others that need you, cherish the things you have, treat others the way you want them to treat you, know that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. Don’t think anxiously about the future, because you’ll forget the present. In youth you learn, in age you understand.
Take time to smell the roses, life goes to fast. Enjoy every moment you have.

My son live everyday like there is no tomorrow, love like you never been hurt, cherish each and every day, cherish the life that God has given you, because you were a gift from God to me.

All your dreams can come true my son, if you have the courage to pursue them!


You’re my angel…… you’re beautiful…. My precious son…. I love you baby….

Forever- Mommy

Hey Janet woman where did you go? I was just wondering if you liked my poem....

Sorry, I had to go to town for a bit, but the letter is lovely. Hopefully nothing will happen to you for the letter to be read and you'll be able to babysit for the grandkids!! Won't that be a treat???

Haley that letter to your son is beautiful it made me cry! I never thought of writing a letter back when I had given birth to my children. Hey I guess it 's never to late...

Janet omg I remember reading that letter in her column, I use to read the Daily News everyday and Ann Launders column. Boy that brought back many of memories..

in his baby book there is a page for a letter to your child, and one day i just started typing and that's what i came up with, i want to change a couple things, but in time when i can get back on my computer to do so, but i kinda like it the way it is, just wanted to share some of my life with him....

That's a really nice letter, Haley. I've always thought about writing letters for my children for when I'm gone. I read something once where a mother had written letters for her three children and they weren't to share with the others what was written inside. She started each letter with "You were my favorite child!!"

aww that's soooo swwweeeetttt !!! ok thanks you got my eyes tearing up over here, oh i'm getting so emotional with old age !!! ha ha LOL.....

Can't remember the show (maybe Knotts Landing), but the mother knew she was dying and bought birthday dresses for her daughter to wear until she was grown and made lots of videos of herself to leave for the daughter.

My daughter has a book from her first pregnancy that she was asking us all to write notes "to the baby" in. Then, when she found out twins were coming, the book kind of got dropped. Guess everybody was speechless!

I have a book that I had forgotten all about. I basically asks all kinds of questions, I answer and then it's given to my son. I got one that says "From Grandmother" and gave it to my Mom. She hopefully has filled it out to give to my son also.

I have a couple of those books laying around here..................................somewhere!

Yes it would i would love to have grandkids, one day, no rush.. still enjoying my baby...

I need to get my book back out and see if there is anything I can add to it yet. I also need to ask my mother if she has done anything in hers.