april 22, 2012. ONE YEAR OLD.

brennan.  there are only a few hours left of your first birthday and i am willing them to go as slowly as they possibly can.  i'm not sure i want this day to be over as that will mark the official end of your first year.  and this first year has just been entirely too precious and significant to let today simply speed by without my awareness.  so beginning yesterday afternoon as i would watch the clock, continuing through today (because that is how hard we had to work to get you to us) i was imagining what we were doing this time last year.  we were walking, we were lunging, we were pushing.  and the clock reads the same time of day, and the date on the calendar reads the same date except the year has been moved one forward.  and you are one years old, sitting with your toys right in front of me, laughing as you pat your drums.  what a fun year we have had with you!   

wow.  how very much we love you.  

my birthday girl.

we had a fun fun day with friends and family here to help celebrate.

here is our dessert table.  homemake cupcakes with homemade frosting-YUM.  

simple.  punch & water.  goldfish, pretzels, & animal crackers.  lots of puffs.  

chronicle of her first year.  

month by month pictures

memories and milestones in each month of brennan's sweet life

brennan's main goal in life is to tear up whatever paper she can find.  hope her pretty windows last

trying to walk

momma/daughter birthday pic

kisses!

 she LOVED her cake.  her first moments were little licks of the frosting, but then she eventually figured out that she could pick the whole piece up and take giant bites out of it.  

i love chocolate!

still eating during our photo op

this is the only family picture that we got all day right before brennan is about to enter a sugar-induced coma.  i forgot to snap one before the party when we were all cute, sheesh!  

putting b to bed tonight was sad.  she is a big girl now!  she was SO TIRED from her busy busy day that she was asleep within about 2 seconds of me rocking her but i just couldn't lay her down to bed.  i rocked her and rocked her trying to soak in the moment.  

before she actually fell asleep, i tried to sneak in a few pics of us snuggling.  my girl who is normally so distracted by the shiny camera could barely even lift her head off of my chest to look at it.  sweet, exhausted, snuggly one-year-old girl.  

momma!  i am tired!  rock me to sleep already!