Monday, March 18, 2013

Jordyn's Exciting News

Dear Jordy-Bug,

Hello sweet girl. I know you've been waiting patiently to share this with our friends, so I'll let you take it from here.

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Hi everyone!

This is Jordyn. My Mommy said I get to be the one to tell you our family's good news...

 
I'm getting a baby sister! I know you are all awesome prayer warriors and that you said lots and lots of prayers for me and for my Mommy and my Daddy. Now, can you please pray for my little sister too? Pray that she and Mommy stay healthy and, just as importantly, that her delivery is safe and uneventful. I'm watching over her, Mommy, and Daddy from up here in heaven, but I'd appreciate it if you'd do the same there on earth. They still need your love and support. Maybe now more than ever. Thank you all!

Love,
Jordyn

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You did great, Bug. We love you so much...you're going to make a wonderful big sister!

Love,

Happy 1st Birthday to You!

Dear Jordy-Bug,

I sure hope you felt loved and honored on 3/14 and at your birthday party this past weekend. Did you catch all the bright green balloons that friends and family members sent up to you? Hopefully someone read all the sweet notes to you too. Daddy and I felt very loved surrounded by awesome people, and by those who couldn't attend but sent us cards, messages, and texts. I know you saw all the festivities from your perch in heaven, but here are some snapshots of the party nonetheless:
Happy birthday to you, baby girl!

Final preparations for the balloon release.

Daddy giving a little speech before the big send-off.

Our friends.

Daddy sends the first balloon to you.

They're off!

How many did you catch, sweetheart?

Beautiful! Just like you.

I hope we did you proud, Jordyn. We love and miss you.

Love,

Monday, March 4, 2013

Your 1st Birthday Party(ies)



Dear Jordy-Bug,

For a while now, we've been pondering how best to honor you for your first birthday, which is rapidly approaching. Cake? Pie (it is Pi day, after all)? Balloon release? Ladybug decorations? Just Daddy and Me? Include family and friends? I just wasn't sure...and neither was Daddy.

Neither of us have ever been huge "birthday people," and we never intended to throw you elaborate birthday parties (and probably not even simple ones until you were old enough to ask for them.) But somehow, we feel differently now. You taught us that a birthday is more precious than we ever realized, and you deserve to be honored on your special day. Besides that, Mommy needs something to look forward to. Something to plan and take my mind off the fact that this is the month in which you died. Something to focus on the knowledge that this is also the month that you lived! In fact, this may very well be more for us than it is for you. We need to be surrounded by people who love you and us. People who wish they got to know you better. People who Daddy and I wish you got to know. So, we talked and decided to have an Open House on March 16th to celebrate you with family and friends! I don't have all of their email addresses to include them on the evite, so I hope any of our friends who see this know they are welcome.

We can't possibly throw a better party than the one you'll be enjoying in heaven, and we're not even going to try to compete. But we will honor you the best way we know how: with friends and family in our home here on earth. Some day, we will be together and then we'll really let 'er rip on your special day!

I love you, little Bug!

Love,
On March 14, 2012, I gave birth to Jordyn, the most beautiful baby girl ever. During delivery, however, she was deprived of oxygen. We lived with her in the NICU for two weeks, loving her, holding her, reading to her, singing to her, bathing her, changing her diapers, styling her full head of dark brown hair, praying over her, and sharing her with friends and family, until she went home to Jesus on March 28, 2012. These are my love letters to Jordyn Tyse-Dallas "TD" Sander; our little Jordy-Bug.