Happy Birthday To You

I cannot believe it has been a whole year.  One year ago, I was meeting our sweet little Olive for the very first time.  The day that your baby is born, that moment where you meet a whole new little person... your little person... for the first time... is just plain amazing.  It's an experience that you don't get many of (some more than others), and it's one that Jeff and I made sure to savor each and every time.  A year ago today, we got a huge present from God.  Not the kind of present that you open on Christmas or your birthday.  The kind of present that comes to you totally unexpected and unsolicited.  The kind that reminds you that you are thought of... that you are loved.

Olive's birthday party was like most first birthday parties... squeezed between a naptime and bedtime.  Although she made it for the cupcake (which she scrunched her nose up at... and handed to her sister), she hit the sack before presents could be opened.  So, we had Party Part 2 tonight.  Olive really loved opening her gifts, and she was thrilled with each and very one of them.  As a matter of fact, she loved them so much... they got her to walk!  She took her first really real steps tonight! I have no doubt that over the next week, she will be up on those chubby little feet of hers and mastering her new skill!

Congratulation, my little caboose!