Happy Birthday Lily!

Dear Lilliana,



OK I must have deleted the first line of this letter at least a dozen times. It is just so hard to know where to start. There is so much to say. As you grow you will understand why your Daddy and I cherish yours and your Sisters' birthday. Each for the same but for very different reasons.



From the moment we saw your sweet face we just knew. It was something that I still can't explain. Only two days before we were handed the worst news of our lives. Somehow though we just knew it was going to be OK and that you were to be our Daughter. You were 13 days old, so small and fragile just like a Lily Flower: hence your name. We didn't get to see you with your eyes open until two months later. We prayed every night for you to grow and for you to somehow know how much we loved you. Each night before we would go to bed we blew out your candle, kissed your picture and told you we were coming. We did this for 353 days.



Now fast forward two years. Ya' know the saying is true... time does fly when you are having fun! The year we waited not so patiently for you feels like a lifetime ago. The two years you have been home have flown by. Daddy and I try to hang onto every little thing you do trying to memorize it. We know that you aren't always going to be this cute! You remind me of this with each stomp of a foot, that I am SURE you are going to make a great teenager!



Right now at 3 you are an angel with just a little spice. Sweet and Sassy as we like to call you. Something you did in the tub the other night I want to make sure I put in this letter. Santa brought you guys really neat rubber ducks for the tub that light up when they are in the water. You lined them all up declared that Daddy was the biggest one, I was a smaller one, and you the other. Poor Charlotte ended up as the walrus. While this doesn't seem like a huge thing to remember for a birthday letter it really is. It is all the proof I need that you don't feel different from us. You are a duck just like Mommy and Daddy and like any other good Big Sister, your Little Sister is the extra wheel. It is normal and a moment that I will never forget.



Our sweet Lily, on your 3rd birthday we wanted you to know that you and your sister are the very best parts of us- some of the ornery too I guess. For your smile, hear you laugh, or just to see that look in your eyes we would give you the world.



You are our Best Brown eyed friend!

We love you as high as the sky, as deep as the ocean, it will never end.

We love you forever and ever and bunches!



Happy Birthday!



Mommy and Daddy

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