“Dearest Arianna, it’s your seventh birthday today. 

I want to tell you my baby girl, happy birthday. I’ve loved watching you, seeing you, hearing you and laughing along with you. You’re the best baby girl i’ve ever had. You’re such a fun, pretty, wonderful, smart, and kind little girl. I want you to know that you’re the reason me and your father are always up on our toes. I’m so glad that Madee gets to have a big sister like you. If for some reason I disappear, go away, or just something stupid happens, I want you to always take care and protect your sister like you always are and have. You’re big, strong, trustworthy. You’re everything a little sister should look up to in a big sister. Keep up all that good work you do and please don’t change. Did you know that every 6 years, a new set of genes are placed in where the old ones are? You’ve changed a lot physically, and grown mentally, but I want you to know that you’re a good girl. Keep being, doing, and showing good through the world. I’m so glad that you get to make your father and I laugh and smile. You keep my head filled with thought from all your questions. Your father loves both of you and Madee a lot, and he’s told me so many times that he just can’t stop laughing everytime he is with you guys. I’m going to have to conclude it here, because Madee needs to have a letter too. But, I want you to know that I always and forever will love you, and you always and forever will be my baby girl, no matter how old you are. 

-Thealea” 

“Dearest Madee,

I want to tell you something. I wrote you a letter for your birthday, but I need to write one here. Just a small one. You’re so happy every time you see your big sister. Like I've said, every time you would see her when you were a baby, you would just gurgle with delight. It makes me so happy to hear you guys giggle at night after we told you to go to sleep. You make us so happy, so filled with joy. I love you and your sister so much, so so much. There is no way fro me to tell or show you. If I could ever relive my life, I would always want to be your mother, having you as my kids. I love you, Madelyn. 

-Thealea”