Tike and Kelly Nelson
Bethany, Petra, Ashton
617 6th Avenue
My turn, my turn!! Bethany got to urite the letter last year so | get my
turn now. I?m Petra and 1’m 2 1/2 years old. | know | can do this becouse |
try everuthing Bethany does and | usually do it with only a few more problens
than my 4 1/2 year old sister.
You remember my daddy and monmy, they’re Hite and Telly. They were
teaching in Nt. Lake after Bethany wrote her letter last year. Mommy was
working with the cheerleaders and she had a baby in her tummy, too. God put
it there and it was in there for a long time.
In January, Bethany and | got tubes in our ears. He went to a big
hospital in Hantato and put on funny pajamas ond blue hats. Lots of people
that were dressed funny too, took care of us. We took a long nap while we
were there and then went toa hotel because there was a blizzard and we
couldn’t get hone. Our ears didn’t hurt anymore after that. He could finally
sleep in our beds and not in Momny’s arms. CHonmy said that was real ly
good...1 kind of liked being held most of the night.)
Even in the spring, Daddy and Hommy seemed very busy. They rushed us
out the door in the morning and rushed us home after school. Honmy was
getting more tired and it got harder and harder to sit on her lap. |
sometimes asked when the doctor would take the baby out but | wasn’t sure when
"it seems like forever” would be.
In April, | turned 2. That’s when | thought there might be a chance
that I'd catch'up to Bethany but a few days later, she turned 4. Somehow this
seems terribly unfair to me.
une 1 was the day we were looking forward to at our house. The last
day of schoo! was June 1 and our baby was also due on June 1. Bethany loves
preschool. At home, she likes to write letters, color, and cut paper. She
also likes to play pretend ond be a helper with big gir! jobs. Sometimes she
even plays with me.
1 like to do whatever Bethany does and for some reason that frustrates
her.