We spent the day celebrating our baby’s first birthday. A year ago our beautiful baby girl was born, making a big brother out of our son and completing our family. I can’t believe the year has gone by already.
I’m so happy to see her change and grow, but there is a tiny part of me that wants to hold her and say “not yet!” I was so happy to have another baby in the house…it was busier and more tiring because I was dividing my energy between two kids, but in some ways sweeter because I knew so much more. I was so much calmer the second time around, less shaken when things didn’t go perfectly. I felt like I was getting a chance to relive all those sweet baby moments and really enjoy them.
Here we are, back when she was too teeny to know how to smile at a camera when there was no one to smile at!
Maybe you read about my sweet girl in an earlier post. You can find it here. She has continued to be such a happy baby, even the appearance of her first two teeth hardly slowed her down. (Had our first wakeful nights in months, but through the days she still smiled.)
Today was a day spent loving our girl, tickling her, making her laugh, listening to our son sing “Happy Birthday” to her. We all helped her open her presents, then giggled when she ripped the tissue paper excitedly only to crawl full speed out of the room after each gift. Apparently stolen freedom is as tempting as any gift at this age. We opened gifts, had dinner and then brought out the cupcake cake. And yes, the baby had her first taste of chocolate cake and icing…I held out a cupcake and peeked through the camera to catch her reaction. Of course I misjudged the distance by an inch or so and she got a good handful of icing! Boy, instinct takes over at that point, she was happily covered in icing and chocolate crumbs in mere moments.
A wonderful day. I was so happy to see her this morning, as she laughed and threw blankets out of her crib in excitement just to greet me. And I was so in love with her as I tucked her in, already asleep from all the day’s celebrations. Sweet dreams, baby girl. Tomorrow’s a whole new world.
