Happy Belated Birthday!!

Audrina the day she was born (below)

Jonah at 2 above and Audrina at 2 below

Dear Jonah and Audrina,

Happy Belated Birthday's babies!! Your birthdays' have been over a little over a week now but because I just started my job in the NNICU last week it has been so hectic and I have had no time to write until now. But I can not believe that ya'll are now 5 and 2!!! It is so crazy and exciting. I look at ya'll everyday and I am like, WOW I can NOT believe that I have two beautiful kids. Ya'll are amazing and crazy and it's been such a crazy journey to get where we are now. For ya'lls real birthday, Daddy had to take ya'll to school because it was my second day of orientation and even though I wished I could keep ya'll from school and just have fun with ya'll all day, I couldn't. But we loaded ya'll up with cupcakes to take to school (Jonah you had cupcakes with tractors on them and Audrina had cupcakes in the shape of flowers). That evening we invited both sets of grandma's and your aunts and uncle to come to have a bar b q with us at the swimming pool. Jonah you told me about a week before your birthday "Mom, since it's my birthday coming up, that means I can do what ever I want." OK I said, What do you want? "I want to go swimming and have an ice cream cake, with gummy bears!!!" "It's a deal I told him." Easy enough, I could do that, so I raced home from work and picked up ya'lls ice cream cake WITH gummy bears and we went to the pool for bar b q!!! Swimming was so much fun and ya'll had a great time! It was a wonderful birthday :).

Then came party number THREE, ya'lls birthday party with your friends from school on the Saturday after your birthday. We had it at Going Bonkers which is a huge play ground inside with games, pizza, TWO more cakes (yes, that's five in all) and ice cream!!! It was lots of fun. With friends and family we had a blast and it's the best thing in the world to have family and friends with you to celebrate the BEST day in the whole world, when BOTH my babies were born!!! It was a great birthday week and still a week after ya'll are opening up and playing with the toys that you got from your birthday! Ya'll loved EVERYTHING and have played with EVERYTHING and it was such a wonderful day. I love ya'll so much and celebrating the birth of my children is probably the one day of the year that I look forward to the most. Each June 16th, brings back a flood of memories that almost brings me to tears. I think about each of ya'lls, pregnancy and birth. To this day, I remember what it was like to have ya'll kick and move around me, every time I look at a box of pasta I think of the meal I was eating when I started having contractions with Audrina, I remember what it was like to be scared and shaking as they put me on the surgical table for my Cesarean section for Jonah. I remember the first time I saw each of ya'll and the immense and overwhelming love I felt instantly, the bond I felt in nursing ya'll for the first time and how I NEVER felt awkward when everyone watched because I know it is best for your health. I may have forgotten the pain of childbirth, I think God set it up that way because if a woman remembers she wouldn't have another, but the joy of ya'lls birth I will never forget!


Love always and forever,

Mommy