Don't let them take the pinwheels away!

Hello Logan,

Sorry about the quick visit today. My client's meeting ran overtime and I was in a hurry to pick up your brother from school, so I couldn't stay for long. I was able to retrieve the pinwheels from your door, and brought them to my car. I don't want the gardeners to take them away again. One of the reasons why I wanted to visit you today is to see if any other parents have taken away decorations left at other kids' places. When we come to visit you, we always see some kids have all these flowers, statues, balloons, pinwheels, and toys, and I always wonder if the parents come by every Wednesday to collect them before the mowing on Thursday. When I stopped by today at around 5:30 p.m., I still saw all the stuff around. Do the parents come later in the evening or early Thursday before the mowing begins, or do the gardeners not take away their things? I wonder! Remember last time Mommy left some pinwheels by your door and they took them away? I wonder if they do that to the other kids as well. We have never run into any parents when we visit you, so I was unable to ask. One time I thought I spotted a parent, but when I asked the man, he was just a friend visiting. The mystery!

Your brother has been doing very well with potty-training. He only had 2 daytime accidents so far, once at the San Mateo County Festival, and once at school. Now we're working on staying dry during naptime. He's going to graduate from the Jellyfish room to the Sea Otter room next month! That's the preschool class where all kids are potty-trained. Most of your brother's original classmates have graduated to that class already, including his best friend. I don't think your brother misses any of those friends (they still see each other quite a lot at the playground). But it would be nice to encourage him to use the potty more often, so that he can be in the big boy's class. Transition period will be from Sept 1-3. He will spend a few hours a day in the Sea Otter room. I don't forsee any problems, especially, he already knows the Head Teacher in that class. The Head Teacher was actually one of his teachers when Aidan first started preschool. This is going to be exciting!

Mommy might bring Aidan to come see you this weekend. Unfortunately, Daddy is on-call this week and has to be home all weekend.


Love you,
Mommy

We've designed your marker...

Hi Sweetheart,

After waiting for almost 3 months, Daddy and Mommy finally set-up an appointment to design your "door". We went yesterday, and the whole process took less than 30 mins. Daddy already had a design in mind, a little different than what I want. In the end, we went with simplicity. Daddy didn't like Mommy's suggestion of putting "My Beloved Little Lobster" and aimed for something simple, "My Beloved Son". I know my suggestion was a little weird and out of the ordinary, but you're my little lobster. Just want you to be different and special. Oh well... I guess with something that lasts for a long time, we shouldn't use that. We used the Mountain Black stone, which is basically black with some white dots. I believe this color endures the calcium deposits a lot better than the others. We've chosen a picture of an angel boy, sitting with a lamb, plus a cross, all on the left side of your "door". The other words were simple:

My Beloved Son
LOGAN MICHAEL
LEE
11/16/08-4/15/09

Your door is small, so we couldn't fit more words on it, especially we have the other design. We opted to NOT have your picture there. We couldn't find a satisfactory picture of you. I don't want to pick a picture when you're only 2-3 months old, when you're close to 5 months old. But your older pictures were of you in the hospital, and I couldn't pick one of you when you're on the ventilator. Your "door" will just be very simple. I wanted to add words like "Daddy, Mommy and Big Brother will always love you", but I would have to put that on the bottom, towards the edge. Not too visible, so we decided not to do that.

It's going to take another month for us to get the proof back, and then 3 more months to have it completed. The whole process will take about 4 months before you can have your "door". In the meantime, I thought of printing out a sheet of paper with my own design, laminate it and tape it on your temporary door. It looks better than the piece of wood that's there. I saw another baby having something like that.

As you have noticed, they took your pinwheels away. I especially left them there to see if they really clear the area, even if they're not flowers. I tired to place the 3 pinwheels out of the common grass area as possible, but they still took them away. Someone also took away the Yahoo ball that Daddy gave you, only leaving a ring and a rattler there. Grrr....I wonder who took that away. I saw many people put up wind chimes on the branches of a tree close by, maybe I'll do that as well. Unfortunately now that Mommy's back to work, I can't come see you every week to take the pinwheels away, and put them back after mowing days. Gotta figure out another way. I don't want them to keep taking the pinwheels away every week. Maybe I'll just put one there during special holidays, that will last a while.

We'll all come to see you again real soon, ok?


Love you,
Mommy