Letter to my daughter #1

You cant beat an old fashioned letter can you? I think in this digital age, sending proper letters is a lost art. I've seen the idea of writing letters to your child on blogs for as long as I have been blogging and its an idea I have always loved - heck someone even made a book out of it!
I'm putting together a scrap book for Erin and one thing I wants to do, was to include letters in it. Something so she could look back on and see what we were thinking and little things that were happening.. something not just for her to look back on but for us too. I'm not sure how often I will do this, but I thought I would include these letters on here as well as including them in her scrapbook.

Dear Erin,

From the moment I found out that I was pregnant with you my life changed forever. Even before you were born, I had so much love for you, more than I could ever comprehend but when you entered our world at 08.33am on 11th April, I knew from that moment, that my life would never be the same again.
Everyone says that having a child changes your life, but that moment, I knew that no matter what, I would move heaven and earth to make sure that you could have everything that you ever dreamed of.

6 weeks in and its hard for me and daddy to remember what our lives were like before you came into them. The last 6 weeks haven't been easy, we've all been getting used to each other and finding out what our routines are and what works (and what doesn't).
So fa we have worked out that you love a good snuggle - especially on mummies chest (which is totally ok with mummy) and that you love to be a little tinker for daddy when mummy goes to bed at 10.30 - still, its good to keep daddy on his toes! You love singing and a dance around the living room. You especially like it when nanny sings heads, shoulder, knees and toes to you (your not a fan of Old MacDonald though... not sure what he ever did to you!) and you love the singing at church - must have been the 9 months of listening to mummy singing in the choir while you were in her tummy.

Every day you are changing and learning new things. Your quickly learning how to hold your head up and you have learnt how to do shocked face (which is hilarious) and just this week we have seen the first little smiles. We've nearly cracked licking your tongue out too - I'm sure you must think mummy is crazy when I keep doing it for you to copy.

You make mummy and daddy so happy and so proud. You have truly changed our lives and we will never be able to tell you just how much we love you - but don't worry - we will certainly try.

Love Mummy xxx

♥