As in..she's FIVE!!!
Oh, how we love spoiling this girl! I love days when the "yeses" are continuous and I (almost) never have to tell the girl "no".
This past year has been her best yet. Another year of zero hospital visits (how I long for when that's not even something we count anymore), another year of growing, a year where her biggest joy was getting to be a big sister again.
A tradition that I started years ago was hanging what we call "picture posters" all over the house for the birthday kid. With Felicity this is especially important for me to do because although I do hang a couple of "NICU-baby" pictures I mainly try to find "normal-baby" pictures to hang up. It's important for her to see, but it's equally, if not more, important for me to see those pictures. So much of her life has been centered around what's "wrong" and trying to help her that seeing "normal" is so good for my mommy heart. Maybe this summer when we head back to SD to visit the grandparents, when we pull into their downtown parking garage she won't say, "Oh, why are we at the hospital!". Maybe, just maybe.
