The girls have been reading about "Alex the Lemonade Girl" for years now. A mutual (and great) friend of Alex's family sent us the book as a baby gift and it's given us years of pleasure. As our kids get older, the more they understand how incredible Alex is and why our family raises money for the very same hospital and our NICU. They talk about her like they know her.
I say how incredible she "is" because I haven't the heart to tell them that Alex is in "Kevin" (aka Heaven) and has been there since before they were even born. She gives them so much hope and she gives Adelina a place of understanding about being sick sometimes or not feeling right inside. She gives Lucia joy when I read that she had a head full of curls too and was her age when she started her lemonade stand. Gianna is in the midst of growing her hair to give to Alex before she goes in to first grade in September. It makes them feel proud to be a part of something bigger than they are and that an amazing little girl named Alex is a kid just like them.
Alex's story was on CBS a couple weekends back and her Mom said that "her legacy was hope." I'm not sure when we will talk about Alex living in "Kevin," because it's just starting to sink in what that actually means for them already knowing a brother, a sister, a great grandmother and a cat who live there. For now, she's doing just fine in their minds selling lemonade and being a superhero. She's teaching them that their efforts are contagious and that kids have big voices.
Thank you Alex. You're doing more than raising money for cancer research, you're giving kids, sick and healthy, an inspiring role model and that allows you to live forever. Kevin can wait.
I say how incredible she "is" because I haven't the heart to tell them that Alex is in "Kevin" (aka Heaven) and has been there since before they were even born. She gives them so much hope and she gives Adelina a place of understanding about being sick sometimes or not feeling right inside. She gives Lucia joy when I read that she had a head full of curls too and was her age when she started her lemonade stand. Gianna is in the midst of growing her hair to give to Alex before she goes in to first grade in September. It makes them feel proud to be a part of something bigger than they are and that an amazing little girl named Alex is a kid just like them.
Alex's story was on CBS a couple weekends back and her Mom said that "her legacy was hope." I'm not sure when we will talk about Alex living in "Kevin," because it's just starting to sink in what that actually means for them already knowing a brother, a sister, a great grandmother and a cat who live there. For now, she's doing just fine in their minds selling lemonade and being a superhero. She's teaching them that their efforts are contagious and that kids have big voices.
Thank you Alex. You're doing more than raising money for cancer research, you're giving kids, sick and healthy, an inspiring role model and that allows you to live forever. Kevin can wait.
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