Eight months!

Dear Ellie -
It is hard to believe that eight months have passed by already. It was just yesterday you were born in a winter blizzard. With the first snow fall this past weekend it reminded me of the beginning of you... I think snow will always remind me of our first meeting. You were born just before 4pm on March 22, 2011. It was a calm day but the storm was about to come. Little flakes began to fall around 5pm and then it hit, a huge winter storm that brought not inches but feet. The morning after you were born, everyone was late to the hospital, the schools were closed, the clinics shut down. It was a day off for everyone. I like to think it was in honor of you!

Now... 32 weeks later... we get our first snow fall.
It brightened the bleak fall world we are in and made everyone happy. It made me happy! It made your sister happy and at eight months made you happy too... if anything you were just happy we were all home together for the entire day. And, you didn't need to get strapped into that car seat until Monday.

So little Ellie Bell you are now crawling around and looking around as you pull yourself up to stand on anything you can. It is amazing that you are right where you should be even after spending 16 days in the hospital and OH surgery. When people say that little ones are so resilient, it is true, you were not affected in the least after what you went through. Sure we had to deal with meds for a while and some anxiety which caused restlessness, but now, eight months later you are 100% and I like to say 110% cause I am your Mommy.

So little Ellie, even though you are number 2, you have given me many firsts and for that I am so thankful.
I am now a Mom of two because of you!
I had the most Awesome birth experience because of you!
I am stronger because of you!
I am closer to my family more then ever because of you!
I am more grateful because of you!

As snow flakes fall we began to see the dirt go away, we begin to see the world come clean again, we begin to imagine and wonder how we can roll around in it! Everything happens for a reason and you are what makes us a family... I know I have said this before but you were the missing link... and, now we are complete because of you! Thank you Ellie for being a smiley, silly, happy, inquisitive, lively little eight month old! We love you more then to the moon and back!