Dear New Parents visiting our Neighborhood Park Yesterday, First, let me congratulate you on your beautiful three month old daughter. I am sure she is quite lovely, but the 3.5 second glimpse I was able to catch of her when not chasing my own children only told me she was wearing pink socks. They were nice. Allow me to apologize for the fact that all the pictures of your baby’s first trip to the park will also include my son. Apparently he was quite excited to have someone else to share his new found discovery of a pine cone with other than his own Mommy. Years from now when you look back on little Susie’s first ride on the swing or trip down the slide and see a smiling, blue-eyed boy in the corner of all your pictures, please know that he was well-intended in his apparent endeavors to ruin every family photo taken yesterday. His name is “Isaac” if you care to simply write him into your daughter’s baby book. Also know that if you are blessed with more children, you will likely allow number two (or three or four…) to sit in the wood chips and dig to her heart’s content. You will not panic when she decides to sample her surroundings, just calmly rake the wood chip from her mouth while continuing on with your conversation (I know witnessing this was a bit horrific to you at the time yesterday). If you are truly blessed to have children close together, you will simply look at the oldest with a confused expression when he too decides to eat a wood chip simply because his younger sister did (fortunately, he chewed his up). Best of luck in parenting your new bundle of joy. The weather is predicted to be nice again today so perhaps you can re-do your park photo shoot minus my children. Sincerely, A Fellow Parent
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My name is Holly Homer & I am the Dallas mom of three boys…
There is one parent at my son’s elementary school that won’t allow his daughter to play with mine because I let mine make volcanoes with the dirt underneath the oak tree. He doesnt want his little precious to get dirty.
Forget the beautiful newborn – aren’t new parents too adorable?!
I hope you don’t mind if I “borrow” your letter and replace “park” with “the Original Pumpkin Patch” – I’m pretty sure both my boys are in various first visit pictures.
Has there been a baby boom in this area, or what?