Thankful Thursday {L-O-V-E}

I was thinking the other day about how God has created this beautiful relationship of LOVE in our family. Before Sylas was even born, and before we even knew of him.....Seth and I couldn't help but to think about what our family would feel like with a new little baby in the mix and HOW we would fall in love with that child...and HOW the child might (or might not!) fall in love and connect with us. We read many adoption topics aobut bonding, attachment, and forming the relationship between parent and child....and couldn't help but struggle to wrap our minds around how our specific story would play out. How would this new child receive us and how would we receive them? "What is it going to be like?", we'd wonder.
Now we KNOW!!!! Sylas is so deeply, incredibly loved by us and he so deeply, strongly, fierecely loves us back. It is a beautiful bond of Love that God himself created and formulated uniquely for our family. I see if EVERY SINGLE DAY and am so moved by it. God created all things and he is still creating new and beautiful things like families today...which makes me so THANKFUL!
Now more on my lovie Sy....he is always sharing big hugs with his Momma and Dadda. It doesn't matter where we are....in the middle of the zoo or down the frozen foods at Meijer he will grab a hold of his Momma and Dadda and declare "UGHH!" {translation: HUG!} He loves to hug us both at once and be squished in the warm and snuggly middle. And so there we stand in a warm embrace for as long as his little arms want to hold on...a FAMILY of 3, a FAMILY of LOVE. A family that is THANKFUL for God's beautiful and living creation.