Ten years ago today, you surprised us with your early arrival -- three months ahead of schedule. You fought and we cried and you grew and we sighed and they helped and we all became family.Every day for months, we visited you in the hospital while you clung to life.
Some days you grew weaker, more days you grew stronger.
Still, weighing just 4 lbs 4 oz and 4 lbs 10 oz three months later, you finally joined us at home.
Ten years ago, it was so difficult to imagine you big.
And now you are! Yet amid all the partying today, I'm sobered at how quickly a decade can pass us by.My lovely, beautiful girls: I'm forever thankful that you fought to stay with us, though it would have been perhaps easier to succumb and leave us. But you knew we wanted you and needed you, and you seized every opportunity you had to stay with your family. And you've brought us such joy!
(Yes, even to your brother.)
Happy Birthday, my darlings! You're now in double digits. Enjoy the coming decade, for it goes by so quickly.
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