Gotcha!

It is Ian's gotcha day today! I can't believe that it has been a year already. It has been a year of adjusting, trusting, attaching, and loving. In our parenting classes during our preparation to bring Ian home, they said that it could take a year to form a good attachment to each other. I thought that sounded like a very long time. Yet throughout this year it is just when I think I'm fully attached and I can't possibly love him any more than I do, I'll look back in a month and think... nope, NOW I'm completely attached and I can't possibly love him more. He has been such a joyous addition to our family. We are so blessed to have him and Cydney in our lives. In the adoption world the phrase "You grew in my heart and not my tummy." is used a lot. Before we had Ian I wasn't sure if I would use that phrase or not. Although, now I understand it. My heart is about to burst. Forever a family. :-)