First Birthday!!!!

well it's official, as of April 13th, 2013 you are a one year old. seems like yesterday I was in the hospital waiting to meet you for the first time, to hold you in my arms and feel your touch. I longed for your arrival since the day I found out i was pregnant in July of 2011. Time couldn't have gone any slower waiting for you to make your debut into the world. Yet this past year couldn't go by any faster. I feel like time just sped up and crept up on me. You have turned yourself into such a gorgeous little girl, with SO much personality. You let it be known what you want and when you want it. I wish my mother were around to see you grow, to tell me stories of my childhood and compare you as a toddler to me as a toddler. Last Saturday we celebrated your birthday with Friends and family. Your uncle Chris watched you and said how much its crazy seeing you, that its like looking back in time from when i was a baby. I see so much of me in you. Your features (blonde hair, green eyes), your attitude (sassy & demanding). I think about how you will be as an adult ( I pray you are more like your father as you grow,  I am afraid of the battles you and I are going to meet if they are anything like the ones I had with my mother growing up). 

You began walking on 3/25/13 at 11.5 months old. I always thought you would walk before a year old, but then when you took your time to sit up on your own and crawl I thought that might be a pipe dream. But you are sooo damn curious and into everything that it suits you to walk early. you still only have four teeth, your two front uppers and your two front lowers. You remain on nutramigen formula at this time, but today is your one year doctors appointment so we will see what the doctor says about weaning you onto milk. I'm afraid to wean you, you're already so sassy i cant imagine how this is going to go. I don't dare take away your pacifier at the same time as i do formula. 

Over the past month or so you have developed this bond with your father that is so special to watch. The moment you see him walk through the door you light up and become so smiley. I secretly sometimes wish you would look at me the way you look at your father, with such love and excitement. Guess you just see too much of me everyday. your dad eats it up, loves all the attention you want from him now. 

Last weekend we celebrated your cousin Kendall's birthday in San Diego and took a trip to Sea World. You had such a great time seeing all the sights and especially love the San Diego Zoo. Pretty much anytime Kendal is around you are having a good time. She is so sweet around you, always making sure you are entertained and happy. 

This week you also made your first visit to Disneyland. Mom and Dad bought season passes since we live only 6 miles away and you're right at that age to start enjoying the sights. You were a little out of your element and sleepy when we arrived, but the moment you got onto its a small world you were happy. I always loathed that ride when i would go with your aunt December and Kendall and tanner. It was always Kendall's favorite ride, but soooo long. and what do you know, of course you liked it. So now mommy gets to go on it all the time.