Happy Birthday Ellie!

I'm sitting here trying to remember the night my first child was born. In typical Marangella fashion it was a dramatic emergency c-section and although I remember very little of all the chaos in the delivery room I still have a very clear memory of a nurse whisking by me with the most beautiful pink baby with great big black eyes and a perfectly round head. I should mention she was "whisking" straight to the NICU where Ellie spent her first two weeks of life. We never, ever do anything the easy way and at the time with Michele stranded in Italy and me relying on my mother to drive me to the hospital everyday (that's a whole other story, I should mention that my mother does NOT drive on freeways and we were in California, got the picture?) to see my baby I thought it was the end of the world. Two weeks in a NICU seemed like an eternity, in reality it was my "practice drive" for things to come with Max.....

As all moms know there are few life events that rival the birth of your first child, no matter how they arrive.

Ellie, we might not say it often enough or loud enough but you are loved as only a first child is loved. We wish you a very happy and healthy birthday....and please stop growing up you're making me feel old!

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