This week we celebrated two years as a family of three! April 27 is the anniversary of the day Luci came to live with us forever. She made Jason and I more than just husband and wife that day; she made us Daddy and Mommy!
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| Luci in Korea, April 2009 and Luci in Daddy's truck, April 2011! |
We, of course, spent the day as a family...even though it was the middle of the week! We couldn't possibly do our normal things on a day that will never be normal for us.
We began the day with a laid back morning and breakfast at home. After getting around (slowly), we went to Barnes and Noble and let Luci pick out her Gotcha Day gift. She LOVES books and picked out
My Garden by Kevin Henkes as well as a watering can to use on all her plants. After our shopping excursion we ate lunch at one of Luci's favorite places, Red Robin. She adores the "Little Fish and Chips" so it was the natural choice. Following lunch we went to see a "big movie" (HOP) with big popcorn and big Sprite. Since it was 1:00 on a Wednesday afternoon we ended up with a private showing of the movie. This was fantastic...Luci could be as rowdy and wild as she wanted. We took advantage of this when it was apparent that nap time crankiness was rearing it's head; a couple of laps around the theater with the occasional burst of screaming worked wonders. Luci had a blast!
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| Watering her strawberry plants with her new watering can |
It is unbelievable how far we have come in 2 years and how quickly 2 years have gone by! This time of year I can't help but reminisce over our trip to Korea and those first weeks home. Luci has always been a sweet, intelligent, loving child; that was apparent from our first meeting in Korea. It's the little changes that most people don't know about that I spend the most time thinking fondly about. For instance, how my daughter has gone from absolute terror at the thought of someone removing a layer of clothing and putting her in the bath to jumping on the bed while giggling and screaming "I nekid!!!" (naked). Or only being able to fall asleep (and stay asleep) if she was curled up on my neck like a cat to sleeping in her own bed or pushing me completely out of mine! Or screaming as if someone was hurting her when she touched grass to nearly falling asleep while laying on the ground UNDER our beehive with her Daddy. These are the things I never want to forget! I know that each day will be filled with memories and I can't wait to experience them all as a family!
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| Irresistible sweetness! |
2 comments:
What a special day and a special family! Happy gotcha day to you! Lots of love.
Hi- my name is Amanda, and I have been following (and reading mostly past blog entries) of your blog for a couple weeks now. I can't remember how I found your blog exactly.. But my husband and I have been considering adoption for 2 years now.. And so Ive been "really digging" for info lately, and found your blog. Anyways! I think your daughter is beautiful! I have learned so much about what we think/would expect if we adopted just from reading your posts. We have 3 sons.. 6,3,1.. But have still always felt the desire to adopt. There are probably 6 or 7 children at our church that were adopted from china.. But I've never met someone that had adopted from korea.. And we are leaning that direction.. Thank you for posting your journey.. It's helped me realize a lot... She is just gorgeous!
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