{"id":398,"date":"2009-02-18T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-02-18T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:41:53","slug":"one-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/398","title":{"rendered":"One Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s the 1 year anniversary of Lainey Day!\u00c2\u00a0 One year ago today, we were given a wonderful gift…one year ago, a child was born – not to this world – but\u00c2\u00a0to us…one year ago, a\u00c2\u00a0baby girl was taken from the only life she knew and given to two people she’d never seen before…one year ago, we began building a relationship with that\u00c2\u00a0baby girl that today has blossomed as beautifully as the flower she holds.\u00c2\u00a0 We are more in awe of God’s gift everyday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s take a step back and see where this all started…<\/p>\n

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This picture was taken exactly one year ago today…it was our “Gotcha Day”, February 18, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 We’d just gotten back to our hotel room…I LOVE this picture, she looks like a porcelain doll, but there is also a sadness to it that breaks my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 So much change to handle for such a little one.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indulge me just a little, and take a look at the pictures we’ve taken on each 18th of the month since that day…<\/p>\n

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One month<\/p>\n

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Two months<\/p>\n

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Three months<\/p>\n

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Four months<\/p>\n

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Five months<\/p>\n

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Six months<\/p>\n

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Seven months<\/p>\n

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Eight months<\/p>\n

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Nine months<\/p>\n

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Ten months<\/p>\n

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Eleven months<\/p>\n

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Twelve months!<\/p>\n

Here are the rest of the pics I took of her, on her special day…<\/p>\n

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After getting some ideas from other adoptive moms, and how they celebrate\u00c2\u00a0Forever Family\u00c2\u00a0days, we decided on these.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll give her a book each year, with an inscription from us AND we bought a beautiful journal for Randy and I to add to each year.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully, it’ll be a wonderful keepsake for her to read as she gets older.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t “do cards” (have you seen the price of those things?), so this will be a place where we can record our thoughts and feelings on each anniversary.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

We love you, Lainey Q…you were well worth the wait.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the 1 year anniversary of Lainey Day!\u00c2\u00a0 One year ago today, we were given a wonderful gift…one year ago, a child was born – not to this world – but\u00c2\u00a0to us…one year ago, a\u00c2\u00a0baby girl was taken from the only life she knew and given to two people she’d never seen before…one year ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotcha-anniversary","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}