It's Been a Year

A year since what you ask. Well it's been a year since I became a mama, a year since my beautiful, life changing baby came into this world. Today Maria is 1. She was born at 1:21am on 1/21/2009. She weighed 8lbs. 12oz. and was 21 inches long. Today she's closer to 30 inches long and about 25lbs. She has 8 visible teeth, four on the top row, four on the bottom and two hidden bicuspids coming in. She still has that beautiful platinum blonde hair she was born with and dark blue eyes you can't look away from. Her cheeks are chubby, her legs are strong, and her grip is that of the Hulk. She says mama and dada, she walks and is beginning to run. She laughs and giggles and can't help but join in. She loves stuffed animals (we have a name for them all). She has two favorite commercials (she likes the music) and whenever she sees a kitty, her face lights up (Riley and I see a kitten in our future). She is beyond curious, she's bright eyed and bushy tailed. She is a morning person, like her mama. She wakes up with a smile and wants a hug first thing. She loves mandarin oranges, she loves her Nana and Tata and most of all she's mine. Of course I have to share her with her daddy, but she's really all mine. I've never felt so much love for another human being. My heart has never been so full, so satisfied, so complete. This little green bean has changed so many lives just by existing. Thank you God for giving me and Riley such a force, such a beauty, such a child as this.

I love you my baby girl, my Maria. Happy 1st Birthday!