Family Life

It's been a busy few months!  Life with Juniper is amazing, few words can adequately describe how much our lives have changed for the better.  Our days are filled with everything Juniper!  She turned 5 months old this past Sunday.  I know, it's crazy, it's already been 5 months. 

Our first few weeks home were tough, we were dealing with adjusting to life as a family.  I was worried like mad that Juniper was ok and we were giving her everything she needed and crushed with the loss her birth family must have been feeling.  All of these emotions good and bad were almost crippling.  It was around the fourth week that something just clicked with me.  I woke up and suddenly stopped worrying about her turning 18 and leaving us to go back to her birth family.  I stopped fearing that she would stop breathing.  I stopped being paranoid about everything and decided that her little life had just begun and I was missing out on enjoying every second.  Don't get me wrong, I was snuggling with her and loving on her non stop but it wasn't until that moment that I let go.  I let go and gave in to being Juniper's Mum.  Now this is where the fun began, I AM JUNIPER'S MUM! 

What an amazing gift we have been given, a wonderful, sweet, beautiful and amazing little soul.  She literally lights up my life.  She is my joy and now my family is complete. There isn't a moment in the day when I don't think about her and I am not waiting to get home to have her fingers wrapped around mine.  When I walk in the door after a long day at work and catch her eye she gives me the biggest smile I think a child can give.  Without a shadow of a doubt I am her mother and she is my child.  Biology hasn't got anything on the unconditional love I have for her. 

Watching my husband with her melts my heart.  The love I see in his eyes fills me with overflowing joy.  It's amazing how such a little person can change your world!  We are blessed beyond measure and couldn't ask for anything more than to get to enjoy our lives as a family.

Juniper is changing every day!  She smiles constantly, she has the cutest deep laugh and she loves to wiggle and jiggle.  She has almost tripled her birth weight, yes she is in the 94th percentile for weight!  Our girl likes to eat.  We have noticed in the last week that she is starting to get taller and her face and tummy are slimming out.  Not sure I like to see her changing so much, as my husband said it would be great to keep her toothless and little forever!  She isn't quite sleeping through the night, we go in once or twice for a binky run but she isn't having a bottle in the middle of the night anymore.  I can't say I mind seeing her sweet little face at 3am but we do look forward to her sleeping through the night.  She had her second cold this past week, poor little thing was so stuffed up and hoarse!  She was however still in such great spirits and so sweet!  She spends four days a week with Mary-Ellen (an in home daycare), Mary-Ellen watches several other children but Juniper is her only full-time little one.  We are so happy to have such a wonderful and nurturing person to watch for our little Bug while we work.  Juniper gets so excited when she sees Mary-Ellen and all the other little ones adore Juniper.  It was hard transitioning back to work but there is nothing better than rushing home to be with my family. 

All this to say, life is great.  Things could not be better.  I can't write all of this without saying thank you to our family, they have been tremendously supporting and encouraging.  Without all of them this journey would have been much more difficult.  Instead we have an entire family that is completely and madly in love with Juniper just as we are.  We are so looking forward to our first holiday season as a family and to spoiling our little bug rotten!