4nana, thank you for fixing the pics!!!
and thank ALL of you for the kind, encouraging words!!!!!!
the baby's name is Aaliyah Marie. she is beautiful, isn't she??!!!!
i want to share a little something with you all. we went to visit my parents today, which we usually do every couple days. my family is VERY close.....
well anyways, yolanda (baby's mom) noticed that she and Aaliyah both have stockings hanging on the mantle, along with my other kids and my sisters kids. each of my parents' 5 grandkids (well, now 7!) has one with their name on it at their house. so my dad told her how he ordered them because he had to have them for his 2 new granddaughters. she is so unaccustomed to things like that. she cried......and then i cried. she is really seeing how a true, loving family acts. i think we are the complete opposite of the family she had. i really do love this girl!!!