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Hard to believe! I remember last year we were out with friends because we didn't even have a court date yet. I was a mess (which explains the colors I picked in my house, I could only deal with cheerful, happy colors!). Here we are a year later, and he's running around my house in his robot jammies.
Our bigger celebration will be the "Gotcha Day" anniversary. (at least for the three of us) I was reading a book about adoption (ok, that's the understatement of the century, I read every book I could get my hands on) and since Rick is adopted I ran a lot of stuff past him for his input. I was really surprised when he agreed with a story that one woman wrote about how birthdays are actually kind of depressing for many adopted kids because a vast majority were also given up on their birthdays. (Nikolai was- I have the paperwork in his birthmother's handwriting) I had never really thought about it. So, I think we'll go low key for the birthday stuff and party like it's 2006 on 4/15. (court date anniversary). Of course we can stretch it into 4/29 which was the day he and I returned from Russia.
In any case- he's ours and he's TWO!
Jenn
Our bigger celebration will be the "Gotcha Day" anniversary. (at least for the three of us) I was reading a book about adoption (ok, that's the understatement of the century, I read every book I could get my hands on) and since Rick is adopted I ran a lot of stuff past him for his input. I was really surprised when he agreed with a story that one woman wrote about how birthdays are actually kind of depressing for many adopted kids because a vast majority were also given up on their birthdays. (Nikolai was- I have the paperwork in his birthmother's handwriting) I had never really thought about it. So, I think we'll go low key for the birthday stuff and party like it's 2006 on 4/15. (court date anniversary). Of course we can stretch it into 4/29 which was the day he and I returned from Russia.
In any case- he's ours and he's TWO!
Jenn
but really, all ages have something precious about them (says the woman who has yet to experience the teenage years!) Enjoy!
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