Happy Birthday, Mira

What a way to spend your twelfth birthday...

But they do a good job at Gillette with things like birthdays. We piled everyone into the van around lunchtime to go visit Mira (after watching Wonder with Hope Kids), and the first thing we saw was a big sign on her door - you can't read it well in the photo, but above the balloons, it says, "Happy Birthday, Mira!"

 

Special  H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y  lights were hanging from the soffit...

 And the girls hung up the notes and cards they had made for her...with medical tape because that's what was in the room!

 We had brought a balloon, but someone at Gillette had already done so, too, so now she has two.

 And even though she may not know that we all made it down there to see here, WE do, and it was so good to hold her little hand and kiss her little cheek (the tiny part that was exposed around the mask from her BiPAP machine).

She's still a pretty sick little girl (as evidenced by the fact that a week later she's still in the PICU), and I'm exhausted, so this bare bones post is all you're going to get, but I thought it was necessary to share our little birthday celebration with all of you!!