Dear Lovebug

Dear Lovebug,

In a few short hours, you will celebrate your first birthday.  My, oh my, I can't believe this time is upon us.

This first year of yours has brought joy, laughter, {humility}, exhaustion, frenzy, excitement, love, admiration, worry, and so many more feelings I can't even begin to describe.  The love... oh, the love... that you have brought your Daddy and I can never be matched.  Nor can the love that we have for you.

As I watch you sleep {peacefully} in your crib, I think back to some of my favorite memories of your first year.  I remember when...

... you got your first tooth at 3 months!
... you made your Daddy proud wearing your Iowa onesie every.single.Saturday during football season
... you slept through the night for the first time
... your first cold and how I wished I could take it away from you
... your pooh face :)
... you had TONS of hair, lost it all, then it grew back curly!!
... you smiled at me for the first time
... you gave me sloppy kisses
... you "watched TV" with your Daddy nearly every.single.night
... you finally rolled over
... you were the cutest ladybug for Halloween
... you became intent on watching Bogart and Edgar
... you crawled for the first time
... you got more excited about seeing the remote than me :)
... you giggled when your Daddy and I would give you "the look"
... you began taking your first steps
... you decided it would be fun to wake up in the middle of the night... after you'd slept through the night for 7 months straight!!
... you pretended to talk on our cell phones

Lovebug, you are the cutest, most curious, fiesty, loving, caring, mover-and-shaker and I am the proudest Mama this world has!  Your Daddy's pretty proud, too :).

We love you Lovebug!!

Love, Mama & Dada