One Year Old

Happy Birthday Monkey!!!

It seems like yesterday Josh and I were patiently waiting for the hours to pass before we headed over to the hospital for our 9pm check-in to be induced 11 days pass my due date. Who makes an almost 2 week over due woman wait until 9 o'clock at night?! We had no idea what to expect or how our lives were about to change. We posted up in a little room trying to get a good "last nights sleep" while Josh slept on a chair and I was already hooked up to machines. A restless night, non-eventful morning and one does of petocin and we were on our way! If it weren't for our doctor I would have had a c-section but instead it took 2 hours of pushing and over 15 minutes of vacuuming for our little bundle of joy to finally enter this world at 8:09pm. I never imagined I could love something or someone so much. I swear we bonded right away, nursing was as easy as could be and she was so alert we made eye contact immediately.

Oh, Emmy, you have already affected so many people's lives with your personality, determination and smile. You have taught us all that the simplest, smallest things make you the happiest. Watching you love even your first bath, that first smile and giggle, that professional sitting position, text book crawling, listening to your constant chatter and those drunken steps have been the greatest moments of my life. Leaving you to go to work has been one of the hardest things I have ever had to do but watching your face light up at the end of the day has been the greatest reward. We are only going to have more and more fun together. I am taking the day off to celebrate the big day with you and boy are we going to have fun!

Considering we've taken almost 3,000 pictures since she was born I think I did a pretty good job choosing a few favorites :)