In the very beginning, you were merely a wish in your Mommy's heart. You were not the first, you see. There was a baby before you that was taken away on the same day your Mommy's Nani died. Grammy thinks maybe that Nani took the baby with her because she loved babies so much and didn't want to be alone. That was a very sad day, Delilah. Mommy and Grammy didn't know if they would make it through that day, but they did. They were sad for a long time.
Mommy and Daddy used to have a dog they loved very much and her name was Emma. They had gotten Emma from the Animal Shelter shortly after they were married, so Emma was about 7 years old. One day, Emma got sick and she died, which of course made Mommy and Daddy even sadder. Mommy cried all the time. I finally told her I thought she needed to get another puppy so she would be happy. So Mommy went to the Animal Shelter and she found Sophie. Sophie was so cute and little, but her ears were almost as big as she was! The lady at the Animal Shelter told Mommy that Sophie would not get very big, but boy, was she wrong! More about Sophie later.
One day in February of 2010, shortly after they got Sophie, Mommy called me before I even went to work. She and Daddy had been wanting to try to have another baby. When I got there, we did a test to tell us that she would be having another baby. We were all so excited!
Mommy worked in an office when you were in her tummy. She used to call me at work and send me e-mails and she would say, the baby is as big as a seed, then the baby is as big as a lentil bean. We didn't know if you would be a boy baby or a girl baby, but I didn't want to call you an "it", so I decided that a lentil is like a pea and I would call you "Sweet Pea" because that would fit whether you were a boy or a girl. So that's what I called you before you were born.
Mommy worked in an office when you were in her tummy. She used to call me at work and send me e-mails and she would say, the baby is as big as a seed, then the baby is as big as a lentil bean. We didn't know if you would be a boy baby or a girl baby, but I didn't want to call you an "it", so I decided that a lentil is like a pea and I would call you "Sweet Pea" because that would fit whether you were a boy or a girl. So that's what I called you before you were born.
