Milestones

Well, as you can tell we have hit a milestone, Josie has lost her first tooth. I was so happy to get to share that with her. She was so proud that she lost her tooth. For about 2 weeks now we have heard from her that her "tooth is shaking", that is her version of her tooth is loose. She asked Mike over and over to take it out, but it was never quite ready to get out. Last night it was finally ready to take out. She was very brave and didn't cry at all. We explained the "tooth fairy" to her and she was excited this morning to awaken to $1 from the "toot fairy" as she calls her. It is just so cute to see her grow and change and I feel so blessed to be a part of that. There are times I think about the milestones that I have missed, but I am so happy at the ones that I share now with her and will in the future. I do think about her mother in Liberia and how she is missing all of these wonderful things. I spoke with her one the phone the other day, she just told me to tell Josephine that she loved her. I told her that I could sure do that. I tell Josephine that she has two mommys that love her very much and want the best for her, one of those mommys is me and the other one is in Liberia and loved her so much she wanted her to be safe and have a better life. So with these pictures that I show, I will also be sending them to Liberia to her other mother in Africa, so that she can share these milestones with us.