When Are Your Birthdays?

For Hope and Faith,

Hello, my darling girls.  We had your big brother's birthday party today.  It was really a birthday party for boys, but it got me thinking about your birthdays.  I don't know if I can even find out when your birthdays are until we have passed our home study and been officially approved as an adoptive resource for you.  That does not stop me from thinking about it.  I would love to have an amazing birthday celebration for each of you and am hoping that you will be in our arms and home before your birthdays.  I don't know if either of you has had a birthday since we first learned about you.  I'm not even really sure if you got the nightgowns or the dolls we sent you for Christmas.  I hope you did and hope you like them.

You have cousins all over the place--some close by, some a few hours away, and some a couple of states away.  When we find out when your birthday is and if you are with us then, we will invite them all to come and celebrate with you.  We may just have to have one big party to celebrate all the birthdays we haven't been together as soon as you are home.

We are also going to Disney World in June (and two different church camps), so we will celebrate our Gotcha Day or Forever Day then.  Hopefully we will get you home in the next 4-6 weeks, though our worker said six weeks until our study would be approved last Tuesday--so, we still have five weeks to go. We aren't supposed to call and make an appointment with her for three more weeks.  I definitely want to celebrate getting you, all the birthdays we have missed, and our Forever Day once we have you home.  We have to have you here for 90 days before we get to make it official and celebrate forever day.  The way I see it, we could be celebrating Forever Day at Disney World.  I wonder if you have ever been there.  You are just now old enough to really appreciate it.  We will have to let you both be princesses for the trip.  I also want to get family photos made at Disney.

I am so looking forward to meeting you both for the first time and putting my arms around you and just holding you.

Love Always and Forever,
Momma