As of this past Wednesday, February 18th, Miss Addy J has been home for a whole year!!!! The year has gone by SO fast and I cannot believe how much she has changed and grown over the months.
Last year after meeting Addy's birthmom, we decided to take custody of Addy a week later so that we would have a little time to prepare our home for our new addition. We went up to the agency and met with our birth parent counselor and birth mom to do our contact agreement and to sign all of the official forms. After lunch, Jared and I went to the foster families home to meet our daughter. It was the most exciting time! She was asleep when we got there in the foster moms arms and she passed her over to me as she was waking up. It was the most amazing feeling to hold my baby for the first time. I had a permanent smile on my face and we were both in awe of how perfect and beautiful she was. We both held her and spent about an hour at their home learning about the eight weeks that she had spent with them. We packed her into her carseat and headed home. Jared drove and I sat in the back seat next to her, and watched her sleep the whole way home. We called our families and let them know that we had her with us and were offically being our lives as 3 instead of just 2.
As I look back at the last year, I cannot imagine loving someone so much and cannot imagine life without her. We are loving being parentss and are so blessed to have such an amazing little girl for a daughter. We got to see all of her firsts and watch her figure out how the world works and watch her grow into a little person with such personality! We love her to bits and couldn't be happier with how life happens when it is supposed to.
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