Happy Birthday Peanut Butter Cup!

My Dearest Peanut Butter Cup,

Today is your first birthday! How has the time passed by so quickly? It seems like just yesterday that I was waiting anxiously to see you for the second time (for longer than a few seconds this time!), and hold you for the first time. The minutes seemed to crawl by as I waited in our hospital room for you and Daddy to come back to me after the nurses said I was ready. When Daddy and the nurses finally brought you in, it was so surreal getting to really meet you and hold you for the first time.

I don’t think one can ever truly understand the depth of a mother’s love until they experience it firsthand for themselves. Hearing you cry for the first time overwhelmed me with emotions I didn’t even know existed! From the first time I saw you I was completely head over heels in love with you! You were perfect in every way and oh so precious!

You were the cutest baby I’d ever seen and made me wonder how I could ever love another baby as much as I love you (which is something I still wonder, though I imagine it will be a lot like it was with you).

You have always been in such a hurry to grow up! When you were two days old I was holding you and you pushed up into a standing position with your legs, and almost from the start you could hold your head up for short periods of time. I remember thinking, “Gosh, I don’t know much about babies yet, but I don’t think you are supposed to be doing that already!”

Over the past year you have brought us so much joy (and exhaustion as you still haven’t learned to sleep through the night, ha ha)! We’ve laughed, smiled, cried, and been confused quite a bit over the last year (though not so much of the crying . . . at least not on Mommy and Daddy’s part!). The past twelve months have been filled with all of us learning, changing, and growing--both individually as well as together.

Though we can scarcely believe that a year has already passed since you were that helpless little baby swaddled in the hospital blanket, so much has changed since then that it is sometimes hard to believe that it has only been one year.

We love you Sweetie--oh so very much! May God’s blessings fill this coming year!

Love always--now and forever,
Mommy