- Thu, Dec 31, 2009 /
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It is so hard for me to even imagine that another year with our sweet baby girl has just flown by. I sat this morning, and wrote her yearly birthday letter - which she will someday get to read - I think I will give them to her when she turns 18 - maybe with a copy of this journal (if I manage to maintain it) and photo albums.
As I wrote to her, my thoughts, and feelings and memories of the last year, I cried. I cried for her Birth Mother (for her sacrifice, and gift of ultimate love for her, and ultimately to us), for her Birth Father (who might never know she exists), for Omma & Appa - who only get to watch her grow up through pictures, letters, and occasional visits, and for all of us adoptive families who are so truly blessed by the miracle of adoption. I marvel every day at her, at us, our little family - and how perfect it is, and how perfectly it was created!
But the tears were happy too. She has brought so much joy and love to us. We are so incredibly lucky and blessed to have been given the ultimate privilege of helping her grow up and grow into the amazing person she is becoming. Our baby, our toddler, is happiness beyond measure! We couldn't have created a better match - she is, without a doubt, the best thing to have ever entered our lives!
Her birthday was a wonderful, fun-filled, CRAZY day - just like her!!! We were so lucky that Kaelynn and her cousins got to celebrate her 3rd birthday together. She wanted a Tinkerbell party - so we ordered blue dragonfly wings for all of the kids and other Tinkerbell party supplies (balloons, napkins, plates, decorations, and gift bags of course!) and had an awesome party!!!
We made her a traditional cake - Mommy made it from scratch - but bought icing. Then Daddy created beautiful Tinkerbell wings on the cake. We had flower shaped sprinkles and flower candles, and a beautiful Tinkerbell candle. She was SOOOO excited to see the cake when we walked out singing Happy Birthday!!!
After cake, she got her birthday presents - she was spoiled rotten of course - and loved everything she received. She got Mommy & Baby Stuffed Black Lab doggies, a beautiful pair of sparkly purple fairy wings, a gorgeous, all natural dream catcher to hang over her bed, She especially loved the feather!! And a new princess movie - Beauty and The Beast. Her traditional Korean present this year was a pink purse embroidered with butterflies - which of course was a favorite present and needed immediately to have something in it!!! There were a lot of other presents too - including some to come back at home in CA. She had a wonderful birthday!!! A great celebration, for a sweet little girl!!!