Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEAR LITTLE B! We love you so much!

Last night B and I went on a special daughter/mommy date. We went to a fancy restaurant and she had prime rib! Then she got to pick out her very own doll. She had requested one that "talked" or made some kind of baby movements. So she got a sweet baby named Darla, who says "Mama", giggles, crys, sucks her bottle, burps, and snores when she sleeps. Does this make me a grandma?

Today she got to go along with me for my routine kidney ultrasound (no problems, Praise the Lord!) And now she is doing school. But, she does not have to do any chores all day. We will have a little family birthday party tonight before we head off to church, and then Saturday we are having several families over as well.

B was my first homebirth and I have so many memories of that day. I had been sitting with my grandmother in the hospital, on the way home I realized I was having contractions. They continued through the evening and my midwife arrived around bedtime. My labor with B was one of the harder ones, and I labored all night long. But, I had the best midwife, I could have had. (I miss you Cathy!) And at daybreak my dear daughter (my first girl!) was born into the world. B was like a perfect little china doll...the most delicate little perfect features. She is still our little butterfly, full of energy and life. We love you, darling. Happy Birthday! You are a gift from God to us!