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Friday, April 2, 2010

Amelia's 1st Gotcha Day

We had a great family day today as we celebrated having Amelia home with us for an entire year. I remember our journey home so clearly it could have happened yesterday but at the same time it feels like Amelia has been a part of our family forever. Amelia did an amazing job transitioning to her new life as a Minnesota girl. The first word that actually comes to my mind when I think of her personality is "resilient". Health wise, she's had quite a year...from landing herself in the hospital with a stomach virus less than a week after arriving home, spending much of the winter fighting off RSV and getting all too comfortable breathing with a nebulizer, and most recently her broken leg. This is a lot for anyone to handle, let alone a baby who has just moved across the world to live with her family who were essentially strangers to her. Amazingly, Amelia has dealt with the past year with a smile on her face, and taken all her bumps in the road in stride. What an amazing little girl we've been blessed with!

We started our day with a trip to the Orthopedist to have Amelia's cast removed. WOO HOO!!! It's gone! Amelia looked so proud as she marched out of that doctors office! Then, my parents, Auntie Lynn and Miles joined us for a celebration dinner of pizza (Amelia's absolute favorite meal these days) and an ice cram cake in her honor. And because that wasn't enough excitement for the day, we were brave and colored Easter eggs with three toddlers...what an experience! But, all the kids had fun, and that's all that really matters in the end.

Tonight we hugged Amelia just a little bit tighter and gave her extra kisses from her birth mother who can't be with her to do it herself. Amelia is a beautiful, amazing little girl, and I still struggle with the emotion that surrounds the fact that her birth mother will never know the joy of watching her grow up like I will. It is my privilege and honor to call Amelia my daughter and some day, if we're lucky enough to have contact with Amelia's birth mother, I want her to know that not a single second of life was taken for granted. I am humbled by what Amelia's birth mother went through in order to allow her the life she has today. So, today we celebrate Amelia, her resilient spirit, and our happy family of four. Happy 1st Gotcha Day, Amelia! We love you more than you will ever know!

One last picture with her cast

2 shoes, 2 socks, and NO cast!!!!!!!!!!!

We had an ice cream cake for dessert tonight and since it was in honor of Amelia, we let her pick at it a bit. She doesn't like her fingers dirty, so I wasn't sure what she'd do. But, when Amelia realized it was ice cream, she wasted no time digging in!


Enjoying an actual slice of ice cream cake


Adding stickers to the colored eggs

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