In true mom fashion, I am going to talk about her birthday!
It was an amazing day, and it seemed to be over before it even began. After 10 hours of laboring through the night, many many tests, and absolutely no sleep... I was sure the hospital was going to send us home, AGAIN! To my surprise, the doctor came into the room, and announced "we are going to do the surgery, you are going to have this baby today"! I was overcome with emotion, and didn't even realize that the situation was actually an emergency surgery! Being that I had never been in this situation before, I thought that we would have the surgery in a few hours... the doctor meant more like 20 minutes! It wasn't even 30 minutes later that I was staring at my beautiful baby girl! She made her grand entrance on Valentine's Day, which for those of you who know our family... was the only day we didn't want her to come! My husband is a restaurant owner, however... he was only managing at this time. He was in complete disbelief that he had to take the day off work! His boss thought we were playing a joke on him... off work on Valentine's Day, that is the busiest day of the year in a restaurant! However, we weren't joking, and at 8:21am... we met our Abbie! There were no complications during surgery, and I was in and out of recovery almost immediately. I got to hold her within an hour of her arrival, and it went from 9:30am to 9:30pm in a flash. We stayed at the hospital for 4 days, and brought Abbie home on the 17th.
In her first few months, she was sooooo tiny! That was all anyone could say about her! "She is so tiny"!!! Tiny she was, and after about 4 months... she finally started catching up! She was only 4 weeks early, and we were lucky that she had no significant delays. She was cutting teeth at 5 months, sitting up at 6 months, self feeding at 9 months, and crawling at 11 months. Her first birthday was a tough day for me. I had a hard time dealing with the fact that she was no longer a "baby"! Perhaps that is why 4 months later we had a positive pregnancy test!
We moved to Richmond at the beginning of May, and Abbie almost immediately was scheduled for tubes. She had her tube surgery on Friday, May 27th, and was walking on May 30th! It was so surreal to see my baby girl teetering all around our new house. 2 weeks later, we learned that she would be a Big Sister, and that was a gut check! Knowing that she would no longer be our baby, and that we would soon have another baby, made me realize just how big she was!
The talking kicked in for real at about 18 months, and she never slowed down! Her vocabulary has gone from saying "More Mo Mo" to "Can I have more water, please, mom". She has now been a Big Sister for almost 9 months, and loves her job more than one can describe! She is protective over Brady, and loves to help in any way possible. Sometimes I can say, "Abbie, can you go talk to your brother", and I will hear them laughing at each other for the next 15 minutes! She gets excited when he wakes up, and loves to watch him eat. She wants to climb into his crib with him, and kiss him goodnight. She rocks and feeds her baby dolls, and says she is "just like mommy", and I just soak it all in!
The reason for this post though is not to talk about her past, but to talk about her today. Most days I feel like I am looking in a mirror! It is like watching me, 25 years ago. Her personality is 100%... me! Sometimes I get completely annoyed by the fact that she is just like me, but she will now tell me to "just be patient with me mommy, take a deep breath"!!! She watches everything I do, and repeats everything I say! I am learning that I have to be very careful... because I have a shadow! She loves princesses and cheerleading, and going on "mommy dates"!! I never thought that someone so young could teach me so much, but she has. Potty training, big girl bed, and eating new foods are some of her latest accomplishments, and she is hard at work on learning her ABCs!! I cant even begin to write how blessed I am to get to know her! She makes me laugh every day, and I love her more than I knew was humanly possible!
I look forward to watching her grow... I just hope she does it a little slower!
- Jessica
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