Almost One Full Year

It’s 2010 now. There’s no way I can sum up such a gigantic gap. I’ll try because so many life changes deserve to be mentioned here. I do want to add that we have added to our familia. Our preciosa and bonita Valerie Andrea Perez was born January 10, 2010 at 1:20am.

(Weighed 7lbs, 5 oz. and was 20 inches in length.)

Everything about her arrival was such a blessing. I don’t plan on going into any extreme detail, not here and pretty much not ever. All the birthing details are almost completely erased from my memory anyway, but seriously I am so blessed that everything went so smoothly the night I went into the hospital.

I was extra blessed to have 2 of my sisters, Shirley and Jennie (1 biological, and the other married into the fam, respectively) by my side for such an emotional and scary ride. There is so much that can go wrong in that delivery room and everything went right. My baby girl made this pretty simple for me…I mean right down to her date of birth. It’s 1/10/10…I should have no problem remembering that, it’s great.

Here’s some scattered mementos of the event.

Mementos? yeah, mementos.

Proud daddy, right there.

It came to me that I should probably begin posting again because I looked at the last few blog entries about my Mia being on timeout and the video of Ethan telling the story about his dream… A lot has changed since then and I know I will enjoy looking back at the chronicle-ing of all these life changes. It’s all happening so fast! Too fast.