"...Sammi."

 Last night, marking four years since we met the girls, we looked at a few of the pictures we had of that first day we met them, four years ago today (Sept 16, 2016). I don't know that Ebby has seen these photos, and he looked at this one with the wheels turning in his head (and, let me tell you, the wheels are ALWAYS turning in that little boy's head!) and after a pause he declared, "Sammi." Sam is a neighbor/second cousin once removed/regular feature around our house kind of person, and yes, there are some similarities between her and Bobbi, particularly the pre-hair cut Bobbi!

That was quite an intense day, meeting BOTH of these girls just a few short hours apart.

I remember both being kind of awed that Gloria didn't bat an eye about being on Bobbi's lap - she wasn't a super stranger-anxiety sort of kid, but at eight months old, really did prefer Mom, and then Dad, to anyone else. AND I remember being so glad that she napped through most of that first visit with Mira. I was grateful to not have any distractions as we wrestled through the many-layered difficulties of that visit.

Still a long way to go before our days together outweigh the years apart, but to have known Bobbi four years out of her nearly twenty puts us at 20%, which is a number that's starting to have a bit of weight to it!