7 years, 9 months.

Dear Holly,

Before you even received Naty as one of your Christmas gifts, you were already planning her birthday party; which would take place exactly a week after Christmas.

You explained to me how she was turning 8 years old and that she would be opening several presents you got for her.

Sure enough, just as you planned, I had a front row seat for her birthday party.

You manually moved her arms to “help” her open her gifts.

The look on your face as she saw each new gift was one hundred percent genuine; even though you were the one who picked out her birthday gifts for her.

Your imagination is still so strong, that it’s as if part of you truly believes that Naty is a real 8 year-old girl.

I just love being witness to this!

Love,

Daddy