God has blessed Adam and I with these two beautiful girls.  We had Addison by herself for so long that I was afraid I couldn’t feel the same love  for another child.  That fear was squashed when Alivia was born in October 2007.  They whisked her away because she had a few breathing problems at birth so Addison and I got to meet her at the same time later that evening.  When they brought her to me she was crying and I couldn’t get her into my arms fast enough.  Apparently Addison was feeling the same way because she asked if she could hold Alivia before I had even touched her.

I had an intense urgency to hold my new baby and nurse her ASAP so I told Addison that she would get her chance after mommy.  She silently walked over to the other side of the room and started to cry.  She wasn’t doing it for attention or to get her way.  She just genuinely wanted to hold her baby sister.   My heart broke into a million pieces and I told her to come over to my bed.  She perked up and came over timidly.

Addison is anything but timid so I could tell she was having a lot of emotions at that moment.  So was I.  It was incredible.  And in that moment Addison knew what it meant to be a sister.  And  I melted inside.

Alivia just turned 2 last week and her personality is becoming more clear day by day.

She is naturally funny and she laughs all the time.

She is in the typical “into everything” phase but I seem to have endless patience with her.  And that is saying something because being a patient mommy doesn’t come very naturally to me.   I honestly can’t get enough of her.  She makes me a better mom to both of my girls.

She is happy all the time and she says so many funny things.  She is learning learning every minute and she has a love for books which makes me so happy.  She sleeps with books and carries around a few of her favorites that she likes us to read over and over and over.

She is very rarely seen without Addison’s old DW doll, her little taggie blanket and almost always a book.

I just can’t believe how fast these two years have passed.  It was just the three of us for so long and then we became a family of four.

And now it feels like she has always been here.

And now I feel like my baby is growing up and I need a new one!  Who will help me convince Adam that we need to start trying for a boy?  Just kidding…ahem no I’m not.

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