January 17, 2006
Birthday month
For many mornings in a row since Christmas, Tara would look at me with her sleepy blue eyes and say, "Birthday?" Not yet, I would tell her. She seemed so disappointed. But how do you explain days and weeks to a toddler?
Tara Vika turns 3 on Jan. 27. Wow! Our little baby girl. She is so excited for her birthday to arrive. My mom had a great suggestion: We made a calendar for January and every morning Tara puts a sticker on it. We are creeping closer to The Big Day. She seems to get it now.
This is a special time of year not only because it is Tara's first birthday with us, it is also the first anniversary of when we met Tara in the orphanage in Ukraine. We knew right away that we wanted to take her home with us, even though she would barely look at us through those tears. She seemed so tiny, so scared. She had just turned 2, and we met her a week later.
What a difference a year makes.
Posted by Laura at January 17, 2006 10:09 PMPosted to Tara's Story
Yeah! That's for sure, she's blossomed and come so far, it's incredible! Takes my breath away!
Posted by: sally at January 18, 2006 10:55 AMCaroline remarked the other day, during the ice storm, that it seemed like it was this time last year that Austin was staying with us. Suddenly I felt so heavy-hearted, because it was so much fun to have him here, and he is older, and we are all older, and time passes so quickly. We do miss him, and I got a taste of what it would be like with a two-kid household. I don't think it is a coincidence that you met Tara around her birthday, she had been wishing for you and she got her wish.