While Dad's Away...

March is always Jason's busiest travel month, often with back to back to back trips.  This year was no exception, so Lucy and I got to spend lots of quality time together over the past few weeks.

We went to the library, visited grandpa and grandma for 4 days, got ice cream, played at the Maple Grove "Maze" indoor playground, got some fancy cupcakes, went to the toy store, did some baking, went to the Children's Museum, took several trips to the airport to drop daddy off and pick him up again, and we played outside and watched a lot of Thomas the Train (a recent favorite!) and even got to Face Time with daddy (almost) every time we missed him! :)

Baking pumpkin bread with mama!

Creating some big bubbles at the Children's Museum

Reminding daddy that we miss him!

Uummm...a little help here?!?!

Bedtime snack with Grandpa

Ice cream...and a half of a cup of M&M's...she could be up awhile!

Lazy morning at grandpa and grandma's house!

Fancy cupcakes!

Playing a matching game with grandma

Climbing up to get to a big slide at the Maze...not sure if she's relaxed or stressed here, haha!

New sunglasses and a Thomas Toy!!

Three years since we knew...

Climbing the staircase to great things!!

Lucy:

You have many milestones that daddy and mama celebrate.  Your birthday.  Your first TEF surgery.  Your second (and this time successful!) TEF surgery.  Your shunt placement.  The day we FINALLY got to take you home from the hospital after 4 MONTHS!  But today....today is the day that makes mama the most emotional...remembering the day we knew that your life would not be typical, and that ours wouldn't be typical anymore either.  Today is the anniversary of when we chose for a second time to give you life knowing even then what a wonderful testament of grace and courage you would be to everybody.

It's true that God doesn't give special kids to special parents, he gives them to us ordinary, common people and it's YOU that makes us special.

We love you, goose!

Love daddy and mama.