First Birthday

Well, we all made it to your first birthday and we could not be more happy! Our little family of 3 has learned quite a bit in the last year.

In the last year, you learned to:

• Roll over, hold your head up, sit up, pull up, stand up, cruise, and take a few steps
• Laugh and giggle
• Play peak-a-boo
• Wave hello and bye
• Say Mama (first!), Dada, Hi, Bye (your favorite), Ball, Boo, and "Ba-uhl" which we think is bottle
• Point at objects you want
• Pinch Daddy's nose and stick your fingers in our eyes and mouth which we just love
• Hold a telephone up to your ear and say "buh bye"
• "Pat" Logan instead of pulling on his ears and hair. You now "pat" Daddy when he holds you
• Hold a spoon and pick the food out of the spoon with your other hand and feed it to yourself
• Depend on Mommy and Daddy a little less everyday...

In the last year, Jeff and I learned:

• You are never fully prepared for how your life is going to change when you bring your baby home, and that it somehow was always for the better
• How to install carseats, put together strollers, toys, jumperoos, and countless other items we never thought we would be reading directions on how to put together
• You are truly a parent when you have been spit up on, pooped on, peed on, AND thrown up on. The vomit is a right of passage...
• Our hearts grow a little more each day with room to love you even though we thought it couldn't be more full the day before
• How to get you to laugh - usually hiding behind doorways, blankets, and beds and popping up saying "HI!" gets the biggest giggle. You also like us jumping up and down (great exercise) and ballroom dancing
• That lack of sleep makes you crazier than any alcohol, medication, or drug you could be on
• The perfect way to rock you when you are fussy - swinging you side to side with a little bounce
• That tupperware and wood spoons make better toys than the $50 bright light and music objects
• That your favorite music is Tejano
• You pull on your ear when you are starting to get sleepy
• That your toothy grin can make us melt
• You aren't much of a cuddler now that you are so busy all day long, so we sneak you out of bed every so often when you are asleep to cuddle
• That we depend on you, our little precious baby Reese, every day a little more and more. You are the greatest gift God ever gave us and we hope we raise you to always know how much we love you. Happy 1st Birthday Reese's Pieces!!! Mommy and Daddy love you so much and are so proud of you!