AJOtterstrom: March 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Abigail's Special Day

We had a wonderful celebration on March 1st to celebrate Abigail joining our family. I had crocheted a dress for her to wear, but she out grew that a month earlier. So we dressed her in her grandma Joyce's dress. There is a picture of grandma Joyce in that dress when she was about 5 or 6 months old. We had my sister's family join us through Skype, it was nice to see them and I'm glad they could participate. For the candle ceremony I was surprised how many times we had to restart. The first time we lite the candle and it just burnt out. Then Joseph couldn't get the match to lite. Then he finally got the candle burning again and Isabel blow it out. Finally, after a few more matches we got the first candle going. At the end of the ceremony we passed around the dream candle, I'm surprised that it got through so many kids without blowing out. Yet, it got to Isabel and she immediately blew it out. So we started it again and let it continue to be passed around. After the program we had a huge meal. We made sure we had a food to represent every color of the rainbow. It was so we can celebrate our diversity as well as our similarities. Everyone we talked to really enjoyed it, which is really nice because we made up the ceremony ourselves. It meant a lot to us to welcome Abigail into our family and have a big, wonderful celebration.