Addison had the time of her life at Gabriel's 1st birthday. She enjoyed going arm to arm and being doted on by people who truly love her. Aunt Martie, Jill, Nana, Chela are just the few I remember seeing hold her and carry her around to be introduced to everyone.
The most precious part of the entire day was when Addie was telling nana to hold her. Dale has been trying for a while to get her to show who she wants to go to and in one brief moment, Addie reached out her arms, and vocalized her desire to be in Nana's arms. The downside, yes the downside, is that Nana can't depend on her own strength any more, so she couldn't reach out to her to hold her. But where there's a will there is a way, so Addie leaned on Nana's back and then I had Addie sit on the table and Nana move closer so they could lean on each other. And for what seemed like a moment stolen in time, I watched the most precious site. A great grandmother and her 19th great grandchild interact.
Nana lined up all the candies that the kids had won from the pinata or as Lorraine says, "pinada", and had Addie pick them up, shake them, throw them on the table and floor and play until everyone packed up to leave. Addie touched her face so gently, which she doesn't do for us, but somewhere in her little heart she knew to touch Nana with extra gentleness. And oh the tears that filled my eyes when Nana said she was so thankful to the Lord that she got to live long enough to see this little miracle come to pass. How small I feel. How humbled I am that God would choose me to wait so long to see how it touches each person so differently that my joy did come in the morning of January 25th when I first laid my eyes on her.
To rejoice at the gift of Gabriel achieving so much in his first year and the gift that came five months later. What a beautiful day!
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if chela hasn't already sent you the picture I have a really good one of addie from Gabriel's party. I will forward it on to you this weekend.
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