Happy Birthday to my 1 year old!

Dear Emery Jack,

Picture first thing in the morning on your birthday!

Once again it's late, but I didn't want to take any time out on your birthday to sit and write anything down. I wanted to spend as much time with you soaking up the moment. Everything goes by so quickly and I cannot believe that my little baby is now a toddler! Happy Birthday to you my little munchkin, Mommy and Daddy LOVE you SO very much!

I cannot even begin to explain all of the changes that you've gone through over the past couple of days let alone an entire month. We'll start by saying you now have 4 teeth!! I really wasn't sure you would have any teeth by your first birthday, but now you have two on top and two on bottom! Did I mention that they work? :) You haven't gotten really bold with them yet, but you have clamped down on me a couple of times. (No hard feelings)

Sweetest little smile EVER!

They are the cutest teeth I've ever seen and every time you crack your smile they just shine :) Although, I can see an orthodontist in your future. :(

You have been such a ham lately and talk and talk like you're really trying to tell us something important. We'll say something and you'll respond and raise your little eyebrows, I have conversations with you all day long.

My amazing boy!

You now get to sit front facing in the car and you LOVE IT! You zone out watching the other cars, or the windshield wipers since it's been raining nonstop for over a week. We were going to go to the zoo for your birthday, which was on Easter this year, but we were rained out and instead stayed home and had a mini celebration before the part on this coming Saturday.

Your Nanna, Papa, Giddy, Grandma Cookie, Papaw, and Uncle Jake were there and so were your cousins Maggie and Macee. You played and played, you love to follow Maggie and Macee around and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the giant lollipops they kept sticking in your mouth that they got from the Easter Bunny.

You also got your haircut and look so different. You look like a big kid now, no more wispy hair sticking out from under your hat. You have grown so much and it makes me feel slightly out of breath, because I know that all of our snuggles, and the fact that if anything happens to you , you come straight to mommy are not going to be like this for a whole lot longer. Time flies when you're having fun.

Soon there will be huge changes in all of our lives, because I just got a job teaching third graders at an elementary school close by. We have all of the summer to pal around and as soon as August comes Mom and Dad go to work and you will be going to daycare for the first time in your tiny life. My heart is breaking. I am so thrilled to get to go back to teaching and get back into the swing of things, but it is very overshadowed by the thought of someone getting to spend more time with you than I do and that thought hurts my heart. I hope you know how much your mommy and daddy love you and that me going back to work is the best thing in the long run for all three of us.

Emery Jack, I love you to the MOON and back!

Love,

Mommy