Happy 33 Month Birthday

My Sweet Claire Elizabeth,

I am in awe that I am writing you a letter for the last time when you are two. I remember the letter I wrote to you when you were 11 months, the raw emotion of the past year running violently through my veins. My fingers flying across the keyboard – wanting you to know how madly, truly, deeply in love with you that I was. Then a year later I sat in front of the computer, a blank screen staring back at me, the cursor blinking in the dark room. How was it that I was really writing a letter to my 21 month old? Your last letter when you were one? It was almost impossible that I could love you any more than I did just a short year ago. But I did. My love for you poured out onto the screen and I knew that the love would just continue to grow. And baby, it has grown. Ten fold. Each year brings new experiences. New skills, new words, new accomplishments. New love. And I just can’t imagine how my heart can hold it all in, but somehow, when you become a mom you heart just magically has the ability to hold it all.



Claire, words can never truly describe the feelings that I have for you. The true, unconditional love that every day just makes a little bit stronger. Your voice makes me smile; your songs make me laugh. Your sense of humor reminds me so much of myself it’s unbelievable. You are strong willed and stubborn and I know that those are such great qualities to have. You will be such a strong leader one day. But for now, I am enjoying the time that I have with you as my little girl. My little girl that tests the limits daily and pushes buttons just because she can. And at the end of every single day melts my heart with “love you with all my heart, mom”. Because, I know that you do. And someday when you have your own little girl or little boy, you will truly understand how much I love YOU will all of my heart.



Happy 33 month birthday my little Bug. You completed our family in a way that we never knew you were missing until we had you. And soon we will become a family of four and I cannot wait to see you as a big sister.



I love you forever and always.

Hugs and kisses,

Mommy

My Snow Bunny

God sure knew what he was doing when he made this little girl - and he made her ALL for me (:

Two Months

January 12, 2011

TWO MONTHS

My Dear, Sweet Baby,

We dreamed of you and prayed for you and wished for you and now we have you. I have you. I have you all to myself for just this short time and I love it. I love knowing that everything you need you are getting from me. I am growing you and forming you into the little baby that I will cradle in my arms and smother in kisses in just 7 short months. It seems like such a long time away, but the past 2 months have already flown by. I am cherishing this time. Enjoying every second, because I know firsthand just how short this time can be cut. And you can never get it back.

Baby, I have seen you several times on the ultrasound screen and it amazes me how much you have changed week to week. Every time that magic wand glides over my swollen belly and I see the most beautiful flicker of life on that screen my heart literally skips a beat. And for that one second it’s just you and me in the room. And I silently thank God that he is allowing me a second chance to love unconditionally.

Keep growing little one -

Love,

Your Mommy