Gotcha!

As I look out the window at the snow falling I vividly remember sitting in the same place 2 years ago anxiously counting down the hours to pick you up from the hospital. Your Daddy and I were pacing around the house and had probably checked the hospital bag about 50 times by this time of the day. We were your typical first time parents. Clueless, scared, overjoyed, anxious, and beyond excited. Unlike most first time parents, we were not only getting a 4 day old baby, we were getting an angry family who had just had their baby taken away, social workers, tons of paperwork, home visits, and constant worry. We have all heard the saying "live each day like it is your last" and that is how we have lived for the past 2 years. We have lived every single day with the thought in our head that it could be our last day together as a family. We honestly had no clue what we were getting ourselves into and how long we would be blessed to have this sweet boy. I am so incredibly thankful that 2 years later I still see your toys scattered across the living room floor and I am able to sit here and listen to you talk and sing as you are supposed to be napping. We have said it over and over, we would go through it all a million times to get this sweet boy. The day that he is ours forever will be as great as the day we laid our eyes on him for the first time.
Happy Gotcha Day my sweet, sweet boy!