Happy 1st birthday, my little baby girl. Momma loves you very much, so much it makes her heart hurt. You've grown so fast in just one year. You walk and run and babble nonstop. It sounds like you say Babe (for the dog) and Baby and Momma (only when you're crying though) and Beep (when we beep your nose). I'm not ready to call any of them first words yet though. I'm still not sure if it's just babbling or actual talking. Baby Girl when you start talking though it's going to be in complete sentences in no time. You can hold a little conversation as it is right now with all your babbling. You even have tone and inflection in your voice. You are an absolute hoot. Your Daddy and I gave you a cupcake with lots of frosting at lunch time today. You made a big mess but didn't eat much of the cupcake itself. You just ate the frosting and mushed the cupcake into bits. Don't worry, Daddy got it all on video. We haven't given you your present yet, maybe we will after you wake from your afternoon nap. But Daddy and I got you a Cabbage Patch Doll named Stella Regena and she has your same birthday! Mommy looked for months to find one with your birthday and there she found it in August! She was so happy. I know you'll love it as you like playing with Brianna's and love playing with babies in general. Momma also got you two new outfits for the fall and Daddy got you a wooden truck that you love to zoom around. Daddy couldn't wait until your birthday so he gave you the truck a few weeks ago. You'll probably get a lot more presents on Saturday at your birthday party. I'm sure you'll be a spoiled little girl then!

Have I told you how your laugh lights up my world? How it makes me laugh and giggle right along with you? Even when I'm trying to put you down to sleep and you start giggling instead? I can't help it! You're just too cute. I can't believe this year has gone so fast. And yet it seems so long ago that I was at the hospital laboring. And I still remember Daddy calling me at work last December to tell me you rolled over for the first time. And how I cried and cried even harder when he said he had it on tape for me. I remember watching you sit for the first time without toppling over and taking your first steps in front of Auntie Krystle and me. It all seems so long ago, like you've been here forever when it's only just been a year. Happy Birthday baby girl. I love you love you love you so so much.