Adopted

I was thinking to myself just yesterday that I just can't imagine life without Ellie. I was thinking about the many funny things that she does and says that just keep us in stitches sometimes. Take Friday afternoon, for instance.

Ellie was sitting behind me in the van as we waited to pick Mackenzie up from school. She had been talking a mile a minute, which has become more the norm and which is getting to the drive me crazy point, when suddenly she says something along these lines...(and mind you I had already been laughing a lot at what she was saying and will have to give some of the back story)

Ellie-"Awww mom, the batteries to my pretend phone are dead!

Mom-"why don't you go to the pretend store and buy a charger for your batteries?"

Ellie-"great idea, mom!"

Yup..that's me...always full of great ideas!

The prior 45 minutes before we pulled into the school had been spent listening to Ellie chat with my friend Sophia and her son Jonah. Ellie LOVES Jonah. I means really loves him. He just turned 4 so he is a younger man an all. Smart thinking Ellie. Catch 'em when their young.

She wanted to text him. I explained that she can't text because well...she can't spell. Which would make texting tricky. She then said she could text Miss Sophia on her phone to which I had to explain yet again that she can't spell and that Miss Sophia doesn't have texting on her phone. It's just not going to happen kid. So then she moves on to e-mail. Can she write Jonah an e-mail. Seriously? I suggested why don't you pretend to call Jonah...she wanted my phone...don't think so! And then she comes up with the pretend phone! Yea! I love the pretend phone since it requires absolutely nothing on my part! She proceeds to spend the next however long it was talking on her pretend phone to Jonah and his mom. I wish I had recorded it because it would completely crack Sophia up..alas..

Then yesterday she comes over to Jeff and I at the table. We had just let her put in The Incredibles. She wanted to be a supergirl. But she obviously couldn't be a supergirl. Why? She didn't have a cape! Of course you can't be a supergirl without a cape! But she had the solution...always thinking...just like Curious George...

She pulls out her blanket and wants me to tuck it in the back. So, I do. She flies off. She comes back. And she proceeds to do this...per Jeff's quote...

Ellie, running around with a blanket on her back like a cape yells, "Look, I'm super girl! I can toot!" and then proceeds to stick out her bottom at me.

That's my girl!

So when I overhear people say things like " I don't know if I could ever love an adopted child as much as I love a biological child" all I can think is...you just do..

Through all of our ups and down. Frustrations. Setbacks. Therapies to the 100th power. It has never changed the fact that I love Ellie. 100 % as much as I love Ainsley and Mackenzie. And she has definitely blossomed under all that love she gets from us. From her sisters. From our amazing friends and family.

That's why we are doing it all over again. Because every child deserves it. And I can't make a difference in every child's life. But I can make a difference in just one more.