Birthday wishes for the Birthday Girl

As my oldest daughter celebrates her 6th birthday, I have my hopes and dreams for her as she gets older.

• I wish that she grows up knowing that she is very much wanted, cared for and loved. From the moment I heard that Seong Tae had a younger sibling, she was wanted and loved.
  
• I wish that nobody hurts her precious heart in her life. She has a big heart and while she may not voice her love, she shows it.
  
• I hope that her love of animals continues. One of her first words was an animal and she loves all animals big and small.
  
• I hope that her dream catcher in her room catches all of the bad dreams she has.
  
• I hope that she finds the love of a lifetime who puts her up on a pedestal, treats her like a princess and loves her for her.
  
• I hope that she lands her dream job whatever that may be (right now that is an elephant and beluga whale trainer).
  
• I hope that she never feels the pangs of hunger and that the shelves of her home are always full of food and that her home is full of love and warmth.
  
• I hope that her love for singing continues along with her love for gymnastics. You could ask her to sing and she'll clam right up with embarrassment however if you sit in my home and listen, you'll hear her singing upstairs.
  
• I hope that her love to help others continues and she finds a way to help others in need each day of her life.

Happy Birthday my sweet lovable girl. You are my princess and I'm happy that I have you in my life to love, hug, tickle, cry with, kiss boo-boos and so much more.

Praise for my oldest girl!!!!!

We have a deal with the kids. If they go 7 nights without wetting, they get a trip to the toy store to pick out a present for being so good.

Katie tried before but was unsuccessful. I told her that 3 year olds don't wear pull-ups at night and that worked. The night of her birthday party she insisted on wearing her underwear. She has gone every night since without wetting her underwear and today we went out to the toy store to pick out a toy for her. Nothing tremendously expensive..the toys were her choice.

Her choice was a princess dress up set complete with tiara, necklace, clip-on earrings, bracelet, dress shoes, tutu, princess wand and some other stuff. She also picked up some diapers for her dolls...after all a little princess mommy needs to change the diapers on her babies too right??? We also got her some more princess underwear since that seems to have done the trick...hey whatever works, right???

Ryan, while discouraged, is excited for her as well since he gets to go to the toy store and he is picking out some possibilities for his gift as well. So far on the list we have some cars from the movie Cars and Thomas items.

So we have been cheering for Katie today on her accomplishment and we are cheering for Ryan as well that he will go all night without wetting soon.

~Jen

Family Anniversary Day #2 for Katie

We here would like to say that Katie celebrated her 2nd Family Anniversary Day with us quietly here at home. While we were celebrating, tears also flowed for what this means to her, to her foster mom, and to her First Mom. It's a bittersweet day for us. We told her the story of how she came to us...a story which will be told time and time again to her.

I hope that her foster mom and the foster family were okay today. We extend our love to them since they took care of her when we could not. We extend our wishes of health and happiness always to them as well as our friendship.

~Jen