Our Darling Daughter

So when we adopted Olivia the adoption agency asked us to send 36 pictures each month to Olivia's birth mom along with a letter that has updates about Olivia. I just finished putting together photo packet #3 and I thought I'd post some of our favorite photos from the past month. 36 pictures seems kind of excessive to us, its more than one each day and since she so young she doesn't do much yet so most of the pictures are of her just sitting or lying somewhere and the only difference from picture to picture is the outfit, but she looks dang cute! When we first started sending these packets we were scared to send these adorable photos and tell the birth mom what a great baby she is because we were worried it would make her feel bad, but we've just kept sending all the great photos and hopefully she appreciates the kind of life Olivia will now get to live.

We don't know very much about Olivia's birth mom and we know nothing about her biological father. Our social worker Morgan was there for Olivia's birth and got to know Latoya (Olivia's birth mom) very well. Morgan said that Latoya had a great sense of humor and was a very strong woman. She said that Latoya held the baby for a minute after the delivery and then sent her to the nursery and never saw her again, Morgan said she didn't even cry when she signed the papers. I cannot imagine how hard it would have been to give up this georgeous baby and to not even shed a tear must have taken a very strong and determined woman. We never met Latoya so I feel kind of weird writing letters to her and in each one I fail miserably to describe how much we love Olivia and how thankful we are to Latoya for giving her to us.