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Three years?  Since this frightened boy was told that we were his Mama and Baba…since his nanny told him to give me a kiss on my cheek, and he obeyed….since our world was changed for the better, forever.

If you want to read about his Gotcha Day, go here

As is our Gotcha Day custom with both Lainey and Dylan, we let them choose where to go out to eat.  Dylan’s been telling us for a long time that he wanted to go back to the same place he had his first gotcha day, so that’s where we headed!

He enjoyed his meal of shrimp, fried clams, fish, hushpuppies, and fries.  And, raw oysters (yuck).

After dinner, we gave him his gotcha day present.  Each year, we give a book that fits for that year…maybe it’s about adoption, maybe it’s just something he/she is really into that year.

Last year, his book was a pop-up book about all the DC characters.  This year, he’s become a HUGE Batman fan (I give credit to his big bro, Payton, for that), so I found an early reader with 5 short stories, all about the Dark Knight.

I expect Payton will be reading some of these to Dylan :)

We lost him for the rest of the night.

In fact, he didn’t even notice we were leaving…

On the way to the van, he told me “Mom, I love, love, love, love my new book”…and, then he proceeded to kiss the front cover, over and over.

I think we nailed it on the book.

Happy 3 Year Forever Family Day, sweet boy!  We love you to the moon…