Happy 1st Birthday!

To my beautiful girl on your first birthday,
Mommy and daddy could have never dreamed of having a baby like you.  You are the greatest thing we could have ever asked for in life.  You are sweet, silly, stubborn, funny, lovable, and just have such a great personality.  I don't think we would have had a better baby if we were able to pick each gene/trait that went into you - you are the best of each of us.  You are so full of personality, you just light up my day each and every day.  Daddy smiles at the thought of seeing you even before he gets into the front door, I can see him through the window :)  You try and run away now and hide when you hear him jingle at the door knob.  Its such a fun game for you to see your daddy.  When I pick you up at the sitters you just smile at me and say "hey" as you wave to me.  Sometimes you even whine because you want me to hurry and pick you up so you can hug me.  Then you want to go back to the sitter to give her a bye bye hug.  I adore you and your little face more than you will ever know.  You are pleased with almost everything, except when it comes to riding in the car.  You used to love that so much but momma spoiled you by feeding you as daddy drove.  Now you always want momma to feed you in the car until you fall asleep.  Momma gives in and I nurse you as we go.  Luckily we have tinted windows :)  You are just the light of everyone's life.  You are full of joy and happiness.  It is hard to find the words to describe how much that we love you but I hope that you always know that you are loved and that we would do anything for you.  There are a lot of other people who love you very much as well and would do anything for you.  You are not only special to momma and daddy but to many many people.  You are now a year old, you barely resemble the baby we brought home. You are able to do so many things and you reached so many milestones so quickly. You still don't want to walk and I believe it is because you are so spoiled and stubborn.  You can do it because you can stand on your own and you have tried to take off on a couple of occassions.  You will walk soon enough and then momma will be wishing you were still a crawler.  You love to chase after the cats now even more than you did before.  You are able to imitate momma and daddy when we say different words now.  You are so very precious and worth all the wait in the world.  It is hard to remember what our life was like before you were born.  We thought it was exciting then but we had no idea how much better it would be once you were here.   We love you so much!

--MOMMA!