One Year

It's been a year, since our lives changed forever. I feel like I was pregnant for YEARS, but this year just flew by in the flash. These are the little things that have made this year move like a speeding bullet. I've heard that once you have children life goes at double speed. It's true.

This year I learned:

• The most beautiful thing on the planet is Erik's smile.
  


• Life is so much more precious now.
  


• The word Mama melts me....especially since Dada is much more common.
  


• Staying up all night and working the next day is possible, not easy, but possible.
  


• People with more than one children who manage to work, and get dinner on the table each night are pretty awesome in my book!



• Sometimes the greatest trials end up being the best situations.



• I love the sweet smell of wet sloppy baby kisses.

I also learned:

• Baby vomit is really hard to get out of your hair - if you forget it's there for a couple days
  


• My child's favorite thing in this world is my....HAIR



• My husband can sing nursery rhymes in a way that cracks me up.



• Wet babies are SO slippery!



• Breast milk stains everything.



• One child's voice can carry through a very crowded restaurant very quickly.



• Yo Gabba Gabba is a very strange thing that babies love.



• 20 years of taking care of children, still did not prepare me for parenthood.

I hope the next years go much slower. I want to soak it all in and remember each little tidbit.

Mike and Erik, thank you for this year of love (and sometimes, tears).