This picture was taken exactly one month before her second birthday.She was always such an interesting little girl. The first time she met a young lady with the same name she has, she asked me, "Will I be her when I grow up?"
On her third birthday when I woke her up and told her she was now three, she said, "How do I know it's my birthday? How do I know I'm really three?" I spent the better part of the day trying to convince her it was her birthday. Later that day when we sang happy birthday to her and she blew out three candles on her cake she decided yes, she was three.
When she and her brother would break wishbones she cried because she never won. I decided I'd break the next one with her and let her win. When she won she cried and I said, "You don't need to cry. You won." She said she knew she had won but she was crying because I didn't win.
One day she came home from school all excited and said that in her driver's ed class they had used "stimulators." Whaaaaa? Stimulators - what the heck was that all about? She went on to say it was so much fun, almost like driving a car. Oh, you mean simulators. Yes, isn't that what I said. Nope. Not quite.
She now celebrates two birthdays - one in January which she calls her "belly-button birthday" and one the day she became sober, her "clean birthday." It was a hard-fought sobriety and one we had about given up on. The change in her is nothing short of a miracle and we have a lot of people to thank for that. Many prayers were said on her behalf. Like the rest of us she is now a work in progress. And she's progressing. One day at a time.
Happy Birthday DD!
1 comment:
Sandy, beautiful posts all of them....about your dear sister and now your DD. I had to laugh at the hiked up skirt in one of the pictures....why on earth did our mothers put us in those skirts with straps that hiked up over our little bellies? You were adorable girls, your daughter was adorable. She is quite a success story.
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