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Happy birthday, Miss Natalie

11/26/2013

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About five and a half years ago, I was about to walk into the Kroger in Charlottesville to do some grocery shopping when I got a call from my sister Valerie. 
This was odd, considering she and her husband lived in Tanzania at the time.
I stood outside to talk to her, slightly concerned about what would warrant an unexpected phone call from across the world. A minute of chatting, and then,

"So...I'm pregnant!"

A second's pause, a moment of processing the meaning of what she oh so casually just announced, and then my eyes got really big and I yelled,

"WHAT?!?"

way too loudly for a public place. Everyone within earshot (most of the shopping center) stopped and stared in my direction. I smiled sheepishly and shrugged my shoulders, Val laughed, and I started imagining the baby who was soon coming (yes, I have reacted similarly to the announcement of all 5 nieces and nephews. I never do seem to expect it.)

A few months later I was spending Thanksgiving 2008 with my parents at the hospital in Harrisonburg, waiting to meet my new niece.
She was so beautiful!
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Natalie had an enormous amount of hair when she was born (must have been the Kenyan side!), and she soon grew into an adorably chubby baby.
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She turns 5 today, my beautiful, sweet, crazy, fun, wonderful, adorable Natalie. 
Give her a huge happy birthday hug for me please, Val :-D
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