a bag of chips: She's two!!!

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And I'm actually okay with it. More okay than I thought I'd be. I have loved watching this amazing creature grow and become the sweet, adorable, funny little goofball that she is. Makena and Aidan adore her and it's been so rewarding to see their relationships with each other grow and blossom through love to hate and back again.

Nadia has her daddy wrapped twice around her pinky finger, an arrangement that seems to suit them both perfectly fine. She still loves her carbs, and watch out if you bring bread that you didn't plan to share to the dinner table. She also loves fruit, green tea ice cream, pizza, rice and spaghetti, edamame, cooked carrots and cauliflower, Cheez-its, Craisins, and coleslaw. She's adding more words to her vocabulary every day, and is saying them all more clearly now. She's also mastered those fabulous long, loud and somewhat violent two-year-old tantrums. Hey - you gotta take the bad with the good, right? She's wearing a size 8 shoe and a 3T in most clothes now. She's sorta starting to show interest in the potty, but we're a long way off from heading down that road just yet.

We continue to be blessed with the addition of Nadia's birthmother and her two other children, Nadia's biological brother and sister, to our family. I couldn't imagine our family without them anymore than I could imagine our family without Nadia. We continue to spend time with them about every two weeks or so, and many times more often than that. She is an amazing young lady who has knocked my socks off with how much she has accomplished, how independent and resourceful she is, and what a good mother and birthmother she is to her children. I love her to pieces and will never, ever in a billion-gazillion years find the words to thank her for what she has given us, and for what she has given her daughter.

We had a party at our house on Saturday, and we all had a wonderful time celebrating Her Highness with a jumper, cake and ice cream, and family and lots of great friends, old and new. It was a perfect day in honor of our perfect girlie. And last night, just our party of five headed to Chuck E. Cheese for some fun on her birthday.

And as much as I've come to accept and appreciate my new two-year-old instead of resenting the passage of time and the evolution of our last baby into a walking, talking, toe-the-line, spitfire little girl, it's still beyond my ability to rationalize how time has moved so quickly from this:

(two days old and about to be discharged from the hospital, having a little rest on daddy)