Saturday, November 20, 2010

Happy Family Day

Sophia Maria,

November 19, 2007, we held you for the very first time. You were more beautiful than we had imagined--a mountain of black hair, gorgeous brown eyes, and a furrowed little brow staring up at us.

In Our Arms

We've got A LOT of hair!

You stayed so serious all the while we were at FANA. But then, once we brought you back to the apartment and gave you a little space to breathe, you flashed your now well-known mouth-wide-open grin. You lit up the whole room with the smile you flashed us. It was as if to say, "Hey guys, look at me! Are you ready for this?"

I'm so much happier naked!

Three years later, you're still loving life with intensity. Take this year's first snow fall for example. You woke with the sun and insisted on going out to play in the fresh wet snow. We were outside rolling in it and taking off our gloves to touch and taste it by 7:30 A.M. You love to feel and experience everything firsthand. We went outside to play a total of three different times that day!

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You really love anything having to do with water. This is you at the Children's Museum, one of your favorite places. Your curiosity, desire to do everything, and mastery of the 5-wh questions are as infectious as your smile.

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We would not know such love or joy without you, Princesa!

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