My baby sister's first little girl turns ONE today! So I guess that means I should probably stop calling her my sister "my baby sister". She's always been my little sister but on this day one year ago she became a mother and stepped into a world unlike anything she had ever experienced. As we become mothers we are full of love and hope for our children. We expect that things will go according to plan and while our baby may have colic or a milk allergy we still believe our baby is perfect. When we are faced with difficulties no matter how small, we learn to overcome them, we learn to be a different type of parent, maybe one we thought we wouldn't have to be. We watch our babies grow each and every day maybe there is a hiccup in the plan, but we still watch with hope and love. Maybe the day comes when you see something in your baby and it makes you wonder... is my baby ok? You may question if your baby is on track with rolling over, sitting, standing, crawling.. all of those things, but yet you still have hope. Then you may hear your doctor say your baby needing to see a specialist because she's concerned about something, but to you your baby is still perfect. So we watch and we evaluate and we blame ourselves... we don't show it though, we keep it together for our perfect baby, even if it means we have to cry in the shower because we are scared for our baby. Through it all we still have hope and an unconditional love. We do what we have to do for our baby because that is what being a parent means. Maybe we have to go to physical therapy every week for months so that our baby can learn to crawl or to stand. Inside we begin to fear the worst, we worry day and night, we feel like no one understands. But we still have hope. Maybe we start to see signs of improvement and our heart grows for our baby... more than we thought it could. We cheer, we coach, we help in every single way possible. We overcome our fears and we share our story and others give us more hope because "their baby was the same way". We begin to accept that whatever challenges our baby faces are only making her stronger and more capable to take on anything.
Paisley is so full of life and laughter you would never know that she is the little girl in this "story", and those parents with hope are my sister and her husband. The day Paisley was born she filled her momma and dada's hearts with an unimaginable love, promise, and joy. On that day she was perfect and today one year later she still is. Watching Paisley over the last few days I have to agree she is nothing short of perfect, she works hard every day pulling herself up, standing on her own, and climbing all over her mama. I see a little girl so full of strength and determination that no matter what life throws at her she will overcome it and will always be stronger because of it.
Happy First Birthday Paisley Jade, Auntie loves you to the moon and back.
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