Our baby is 2!!

On December 11, 2008, Olivia Alene Sapien turned 2! We are still in a state of denial that our baby is now a little girl...heavy emphasis on the "little". Weighing in at 23 pounds, fully clothed, and just over 32 inches tall, she's still a tiny thing! It's so fun to hear her say new words every day and become a little person with her own personality. She's quickly showing the boys who's boss and has already mastered the art of tattle taling and manipulating Daddy!

I think that every year on her birthday I will be reminded of the fact that it is a complete miracle that she is with us and we serve such a loving God who answered so many prayers and gave us a beautiful, healthy girl, and kept His protective hands on me also, in the midst of a very scary, hard delivery and surgery.

I will forever remember being pushed in a wheelchair to the NICU about 30 hours after giving birth to meet my daughter for the first time. She was so tiny and had so many tubes and monitors hooked up to her and I was not in the best state myself after a c-section, a hysterectomy and a blood patch surgery, but she was the most beautiful baby in that hospital and I was the most blessed mother. The fact that after that traumatic birth, 2 years later she is in perfect health will never be taken for granted by us.

She is our last baby, so all of her firsts are the last firsts that Eric and I get to experience in one of our children. That makes them bittersweet and all the more precious.

Happy Birthday Sweet Livi!