{"id":15494,"date":"2017-02-23T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/?p=15494"},"modified":"2017-02-23T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:54:44","slug":"a-letter-to-my-6-year-old-son-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/2017\/02\/a-letter-to-my-6-year-old-son-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to My 6 Year Old Son | Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Emmett,<\/p>\n<p>Today you are six! That means six years ago today I held you for the first time ever. I kissed your sweet cheeks, snuggled your pudgy nose and looked at you in awe. Let me tell you a few things about your five-year-old self that I\u2019ve come to adore. \u00a0You are the most un-shy and friendliest member of our family, which makes it easy for you to make friends where ever you are, this makes me feel so warm and fuzzy knowing that you have the confidence that sometimes I lack. You have always been the smiliest boy and everyone enjoys your happiness, kindness, and sweet-nartured heart. Since three you have been a builder, puzzle solver, and of course athlete.\u00a0My favorite things about you right now is your love for playing soccer and challenging yourself to build bigger and better Lego models. I can\u2019t believe you have your first loose tooth with the adult one growing right behind it. Hopefully you\u2019ll get your daddy\u2019s genes and not mine so you can have beautiful straight teeth. I\u2019m so proud that you are well behaved at school, but\u2026 there\u2019s always room for improvement at home (I\u2019m just saying) and you are always so excited to pick up a\u00a0new book from the library. \u00a0I could list a million and one things about you that I love right now, but my top two are your hair color, because it reminds me of the summer\u2019s golden light, and the affection you show me on a daily basis -keep those kisses coming! Oh and one more, I love your excitement for the little things in life, like tonight when I snuggled in bed with you and you whispered with a smile, \u201cAm I six yet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can not wait to see what your six-year-old year has in store, until then\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I pray that I\u2019ll always receive your tender hugs, gentle kisses, and extra snuggles while you are reading to me on the couch. I pray to God that we will be in each other\u2019s lives so long that I need binoculars to see you receive diploma after diploma (scratch that who am I kidding I\u2019ll be in the front) that I may dance with you to \u201cDear Mamma\u201d (oh maybe two or three times because I\u2019ll slip the DJ a bill) at your wedding, and watch us get gray hair and all wrinkly while we are on our annual family vacation. And if I am ever not there to hold your hand or kiss your tears away always know you can pray for me and I will be listening to you and praying right back for your smiles to return like when you were just a child and I held your tiny clammy hands in mine and whispered I love you more.<\/p>\n<p>These are all of my favorite parts about you my love!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001(pp_w768_h563).jpg\" alt=\"2017-02-22_0001\" width=\"1200\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001.jpg 1200w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001-200x147.jpg 200w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001-600x441.jpg 600w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001-768x564.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001-1080x793.jpg 1080w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001-50x37.jpg 50w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001%28pp_w480_h352%29.jpg 480w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001%28pp_w768_h563%29.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0001%28pp_w992_h728%29.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002(pp_w768_h765).jpg\" alt=\"2017-02-22_0002\" width=\"1199\" height=\"1195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002.jpg 1199w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002-200x200.jpg 200w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002-600x598.jpg 600w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002-768x765.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002-1080x1076.jpg 1080w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002-50x50.jpg 50w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002%28pp_w480_h478%29.jpg 480w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002%28pp_w768_h765%29.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0002%28pp_w992_h988%29.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003(pp_w768_h513).jpg\" alt=\"2017-02-22_0003\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003.jpg 1200w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003-200x134.jpg 200w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003-600x402.jpg 600w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003-768x514.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003-1080x723.jpg 1080w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003-50x33.jpg 50w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003%28pp_w480_h321%29.jpg 480w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003%28pp_w768_h513%29.jpg 768w,http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/23-15494-post\/2017-02-22_0003%28pp_w992_h663%29.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Emmett, Today you are six! That means six years ago today I held you for the first time ever. I kissed your sweet cheeks, snuggled your pudgy nose and looked at you in awe. Let me tell you a few things about your five-year-old self that I\u2019ve come to adore. \u00a0You are the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15502,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evamariephoto.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}