Happy Birthday To Pook! She's 1

Happy Birthday Pook!

Pook is one year old today and we had a good time celebrating. Before she awoke I put her in bed with me and I started thinking about what I was doing this time last year. I was already at the hospital for a planned c-section at 5am and by 8:30am Pook was here! I was a nervous wreck so excited and scared at the same time. When I saw that round face, that perfect circle of a face staring back at me and I couldn't believe it! There really was something alive growing inside of me and she was a girl. A perfect healthy angel.

My dad called first to sing Pook happy birthday. It was then that I realized that Pook doesn't know what today means. She doesn't know why we are all excited to celebrate her- but I WAS/AM so excited. We had breakfast then got Pook dressed in the cutest cheerleader outfit ever. I'll have to attach a photo of that. She went to Ms.Lisa's and celebrated with her friends over blueberry muffins with a candle in it. Then she went out with dad and his family. Only to come home and have dinner with her dad and mommy.

Although the festivities don't really start until Sat. with the party and all- today is her birthday and I felt it. I am so hopelessly in love with my baby girl that thinking about the day she was born, has emotionally drained me. I took a look at her baby photos and she was so tiny. It's funny but now that i know her personality I can see how she was that same person when she first came home, only I didn't know her so well yet.

Now, she is talking and walking, and doing, doing, everything. She is a big girl who has made my life more meaningful, more beautiful, more better. The gift is being next to one another, hearing her learn language, and seeing her smile. In every look, I want her to know that I love her with my whole heart. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for Pook. And that is love, pure and true.