It is 1:30 in the morning and I am wide awake. I took a vacation day to spend the entire day with Addi today and I am so excited that I can't sleep. Spending the entire day with her is a slightly belated birthday present to her...which is more of a present to me, but I always want to make her feel extra special for her special day! :)
Addi had a great birthday. As soon as I heard her stirring in her crib on Wednesday morning, I woke up Jared and the two of us went in there and sung the Happy Birthday song to her. This excited her to the point that she started jumping in her crib, which resulted in her bumping her chin and crying. Poor thing. :( But I quickly made her feel better by giving her a birthday morning bath! She LOVES bath time and usually we give them to her at night, but I thought it would be a special treat for her to give it to her in the morning. OK, honestly, I hadn't given her a bath the night before and I didn't want my child to be stinking up her daycare class, but hey, it was a special treat for her birthday anyway. :) She had a fun-filled day at daycare and then we took her to Red Robin to experience her first ever Kid's Meal and her first bites of pizza. The Red Robin we go to is about 20 minutes away and it was raining pretty heavily, so it took longer. She cried the ENTIRE way there, which is unusual for her...guess she was afraid we might start singing again. She enjoyed her birthday dinner immensely though and seemed to have a great time. I had great plans of letting her experience her first cupcake there, but the table was small, the waiter was weird and we all seemed a bit tired, so we decided to let her have it at home. More crying ensued on the car ride home...and so did the rain...and then a traffic jam. We got home fairly late, at least for a one-year-old who has decided naps during the day are overrated, so we decided to wait on the cupcake. However, once we got home, Addi perked up and we were able to play and laugh until her heart was content - and experiencing that made my heart content. So, her day didn't go the way I had planned it, but when do they? The important thing is she knows we love her and we show it every day. :)
Speaking of special days...today, as in March 11th, is a very special day in my book and always will be. Two years ago today I was told by a doctor with a horrible bedside manner that my chances of getting pregnant were slim and if I did get pregnant that I would probably miscarry. Two years later...here we are. This day is a reminder of God's constant grace and mercy to me. God is a miracle working God. And for those of you who read this and are waiting for your own miracle (whether it be a child, a job, a spouse, a healing, etc) all I can say to you is PLEASE don't give up. If God put the desire in your heart, He WILL see it to fruition.
Oh...and Addi had her cupcake tonight (or last night, since it's early morning) and she loved it. True to form, that didn't go quite the way I planned either. We put a candle in the cupcake and proceeded to sing to her. We were afraid she would try to grab the candle, so Jared blew it out right after we finished singing. Addi shed crocodile tears at the sight of the fire going out (or at the sound of us singing to her again). Once she finished her crying session and I fed her the first bite, she was thrilled. She ate a ton of icing and some of the cupcake. The rest she threw on the ground. :)
More blogs to come this week. I promise to have an update on being pregnant with my sweet baby boy.:)
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