dear mercy adoniyah,
i will probably say this every year. but i am so proud of you. you are such a strong and capable little person already. you have had some of the weirdest experiences and yet you keep growing and changing and amazing me. this past year has been weird and wonderful and downright sucky. you turned three and started kindergarten without a flaw. you love it and you already have learned age appropriate romanian. your summer was rough, filled with sickness and infection yet you still made it to kindergarten, still learned, still played and even still grew. whew. you spent a week in the hospital with pneumonia and then traveled to america. thanks to a california christmas we discovered you were vitamin d deficient which seems to have taken away all your sickies, yay! you were such a champ in january and february…traveling, staying in people’s homes, standing up in front of churches…things that just aren’t “you” but you still did it. march and april officially become the worst months of our lives as a family (in a way) and yet some of the best. in march, you traveled with mama back to america to meet and say goodbye to your cousin eisley hope. i don’t think i could have done it if it wasn’t for you. your simplicity, your determination, your pure fire personality…these are things i have come to love and adore about you. i wouldn’t change you for the world. some days i have no idea what to DO with you…those are the days i learn so much FROM you. last night as i lay in your bed with your random 11p-1a wake up (just keeping it real, right?) i thought about the past four years. some times i want to freeze time and yet i am so curious what your tomorrow will hold. grow old with me, baby. i love you so much.
love always and forever,
mama
*****
a walk down memory lane:
the day you were born
your birth announcement
one month old
your newborn pics taken by your dohdoh
your birth story
two months old
three months old
four months
five months old
then we moved. hahaha. thank goodness for iphones or the next six months might have gone undocumented hahah!
just a little you
then i actually found your six month pictures, ha!
nine months old
more videos
ten months old
happy first birthday
iphone mercy
happy second christmas
iphone mercy
happy second birthday
iphone mercy
just a randomness
our trip just the two of us
happy three. and your 365 video.
one last one
