Finding our way back together

Through series of events too personal too share, we finally found our way back together. Your mother eventually decided to entrust you under our care. I really wish that someday you'd understand that you were not given to us because you were not loved, but because you are loved so deeply, more than herself. Someday, when you have children of your own, you will understand her sacrifice and what a selfless act it was.

My brother Kenneth wrote a poem about you, when we thought we had to let you go.

Mario the Baby

When you came into my life
To my tiny, boring life
When you were carried across the street
And you entered our bedroom's tiny sheet

I saw you and I was so happy
To see your cute face and big belly
When you first stayed at my home
All of our hearts become whole

The time when you slept and ate
And the time you cried and played
All those times made me happy
Like mother with her baby

So please come back to me
So you can play with me

And his wish, as well as ours, were granted. You've come back to us... as our son, Darrel Syauqi Darmadi. A healthy and happy boy who fills our home with a child's belly laugh - the most beautiful sound on earth - indeed.