When Lilly was born, one of our first visitors was big brother Levi. His reaction to finding out that she was a girl: “That’s cool. When can we change her into a boy?”
Well, there’s no chance that she’s a boy. She’s beautiful and bright, a leader among her peers, strong and nurturing, quirky/cool and creative. She reads/writes/thinks deeply. She feels fiercely, and sings constantly! She’s a lot like her dad, which means that she is quick-witted and sometimes too sharp-tongued. She is wiser than her years, and is growing to be comfortable in her own skin.
She is my delight, this daughter of mine. I have many children. She will always be my first daughter. As I held her in the moments after her arrival on the planet, I looked at Kim with wide-eyed wonder and asked, “What do I do with a girl?”
As we weave our way through proms and SAT prep and college applications and “Mr. Sublett, may I date your daughter?”, I think we’re on the right track. I love you, Lilly Grace.
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