Your eighth year was to bring a couple of magical deliveries.

 

Early on in this year, a miracle was delivered. Austin came after a very difficult few days of labour for Rachel, and you were delighted to welcome your cousin into the world.

 

He was the first baby you had seen since your brother and you were fantastic with him. You were patient and kind and loving to this little bundle of joy.

 

Later that year we experienced something else that was truly magical.

 

We went to visit Father Christmas. Lapland was truly a place of dreams where you and the Drummonds were completely captivated by the Christmas magic that was sprinkled over everything that we saw. When we finally met Father Christmas, you were overjoyed.

 

I will never forget the look on your face when actual Father Christmas pulled the letter out of his pocket that you had sent him a few weeks earlier and read your Christmas wish list .

 

You looked at me with wonder in your eyes and for that moment… you believed in Santa Claus.