Its been a year

Our little Adrianna is now one. A year goes by so fast and slow all at the same time. On her actual birthday (sat. November 27th) I was knee deep in paint doing a room makeover for Bella and Olivia. It took literally all day (pictures to come of the makeover), and I was feeling bad that I hadn't spent hardly any time with Anna. It made me remember her time in the NICU when she spent ten days there. I would go about four times a day and spend a couple of hours just holding her there, and singing to her. It was close to Christmas and the NICU was all decorated and I think I sang every Christmas carol I knew. It was an uncertain time the highs and lows of hearing the doctors say she is improving and then the next time them telling us there has been a setback and we are concerned about.... Her time there was short, but I think everyday that you leave your child in the hospital it feels like a week, but I look back with fondness that all I had to do was hold her. I didn't have to be a mother to anyone else, I didn't have to do the dishes, answer the phones, pay the bills or think about what I was going to cook for dinner. I arrived at the hospital knowing the most important thing was for me to hold her so she could hear my heartbeat and hear my voice.

So by the end of her birthday when I realized I hadn't done anything with Anna, we headed to the park so she could swing on the swings her favorite thing. After that we picked up pizza and cupcakes. We bought her one present a doll that giggles, that we forgot to give to her until the next day. This age is so easy to please.

I love you Adrianna, my pretty little Adrianna. We were waiting for you to come and when you arrived we loved you from the start. You complete our family, my sweet angels XXX000