Happy Birthday

Auron you are FOUR! and on your fourth birthday you can finally count to four (it's been a long long process). I can not believe how old you are now, almost as old as Daddy. You my Auron are incredibly special to me. You made all my dreams come true. For the longest time I never thought I would have children though it is all that I desperately wanted. I felt that I would have to settle for being the cool Aunty or something like that.
Daddy and I prayed and fasted for you, almost from the day that we married. We went to the temple several times a week and begged and prayed for you. I remember sitting in an endowment session, when the overwhelming feeling came over me that I was indeed pregnant and would be a mother. I remember walking down to the supermarket in Beenleigh, we were living in Brisbane at the time and buying a pregnancy test. I went back in forth in my head about whether I should buy it or not. We had no money at the time and things were tough to say the least. Spending $6 on a test was a big deal especially if it was negative. After 30mins of walking up and down the isles trying to decide what to do I finally bought it and walked home. When I finally did the test I was shocked that it was positive. I mean it's what I wanted buy I couldn't believe that my body actually worked! It did what it was supposed to do, despite being told that it wouldn't.
 Only very few people knew how hard it was for us when we left NZ to move to Australia. Daddy and I barely knew each other to be honest! Those first few months were unbelievably hard. I can only remember seeing Daddy cry once and that was when he sent me back home, when I was pregnant with you. We had no money and he was struggling to find a stable job. When I was about 4 months pregnant we moved to Melbourne and Daddy started working with Uncle Chris. Things were finally looking up.
You were born on the 30th of March 2011 after 36 hours of horrible labour. It was both the worst and best day of my life all rolled in to one. Nana and Daddy were there to meet you. You were more gorgeous than I could ever had imagined.  You had a full head of hair, and beautiful blue eyes and big juicy lips.
Oh how I love being your Mummy. Nothing has brought me more joy that being your mother. I am so proud of the wonderful person you are growing in to. You are compassionate and kind. Your sweet spirit just sucks in everyone around you. You are affectionate and incredibly funny. Often you are my best friend. I love when we go shopping and we talk and talk and talk. Even when you couldn't talk I just enjoyed your company and would talk to you anyway (even if you were asleep).

I love you very very much Auron

Happy 4th Birthday