10/13/2008 Big Birthday Weekend

We celebrated Lacie's birthday this weekend. She celebrated all weekend long. She is now 4 years old and she is so excited that she is such a big girl. Tonight she wanted to say prayers before dinner and she was very sincere: "Dear Jesus, we thank you for your love and blessings. Thank you that we can eat and go poopy." Oh yes she did. Somewhere in there she thanked God for protecting us and keeping us safe. Then John finished off praying for Lacie and the most wonderful blessing that she is in our lives.

Saturday we celebrated with friends and family at the gymnastics gym - it was a gymnastics party. It was so much fun. We had an awesome friend and photographer take pictures for us so John and I could just enjoy the party. I will post pics in the near future. Lacie's friends and cousins were very generous with their time and gifts. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends.

Saturday evening we went to eat Chinese and Lacie was celebrated again. The restaurant gave her a cake with a candle, some chop sticks in a plastic holder, and sang to her.

Sunday we celebrated with my sister. Lacie and Robin have birthdays only one day apart. For the last six months or so Lacie has been convinced that she will have her birthday party and then have Aunt Robie's birthday cake the next day. So Aunt Robin came to visit all the way from Chicago-land to celebrate with Lacie. Lacie loves her so much.


We celebrated again tonight with just our immediate family. We ordered pizza and had another cupcake with a candle. So, Lacie has been well celebrated. She is very proud of being four years old!

Tonight when we prayed before bed we prayed again for Lacie's birth mom. And we talked some about how four years ago a special woman gave birth to a very beautiful baby. And that woman, Lacie's birth mom, loved her enough to choose life for her. AND she made a hard decision to let her baby go. Daddy and I have been so blessed to be able to be Lacie's mommy and daddy and will always be her forever family. We talked about how Lacie's birthmom is probably funny like Lacie and she is probably very smart like Lacie. Lacie just smiled. She has not ever asked questions, but maybe because we just talk about it at random and we make it open all the time. She also knows how much we respect her birthmom and admire her for making a very tough decision.

Anyway - I thought it would be a very short entry -but I an just so sentimental right now - and the blessings we feel of having our two beautiful babies - it is indescribable.

Blessings!

Vonda