Abby Connolly
“Watch my daughter experience her first birthday party ever [with] people that love her after spending three years in foster care, never being celebrated,” wrote Jess.
The TikTok video shows little Genesis sitting in front of her big, colorful birthday cake, dressed to the nines in a unicorn outfit. You can tell it was an important moment for her as she sits in front of her cake with a reflective and sincere look on her face.
Jess writes in the caption of her video that Genesis cried tears of joy all day during her party and kept telling ‘Mommy and Daddy’ she loved them.
The video has over 934,000 views and has captured the hearts of TikTok users worldwide.
Some users even shared their own stories of their time in the foster care system and how much moments like those mean to foster kids.
“As a kid who was in foster care a few years ago, thank you,” commented one TikTok user.
“I remember crying my eyes out at every birthday because I didn’t have a family. You gave her that and so much more.”
“How precious,” commented another user.
“She will remember this moment her whole life.”
Congratulations to Jess, her husband, and their three precious girls on entering a new chapter as a loving family.
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