That is a picture taken just before midnight on September 24, 2004. Just a few minutes after birth. In some ways that seems a lifetime ago and in others just like it was very very recent.
I have been digging through pictures from the month surrounding her birth. Hurricane Ivan causing devastation around our home and causing us to evacuate to Jacksonville where we were closer to family, my 13 year old dog dieing just a few weeks before she was born, pictures of her in front of the television as SpaceShipOne was in flight to win the X-Prize, President Bush visiting Niceville, the walls outside our windows at St. Vincent’s Medical Center shredded and the St. Johns River flooded from hurricane Jeanne, the possible last pictures of the interior of our boarded up house taken with the possibility of never seeing it in one piece again, every member of the family carrying around a little tiny girl.
All of that at a little girl who is still amazingly sweet and wonderful as she turns 3.
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