Happy First Birthday!

  Happy first birthday to my sweet and perfect baby.  It's so much fun to see your personality come out as you get bigger.  Your love for Tank knows no bounds and your Dada and I know we come after him if you ever made a tier list of everyone in the house.

  I hope you never lose your easy smile, it is so big and brightens the whole room.  Your giggle makes any situation better, even if you are giggling because you dropped your banana spear on the floor or flooded your highchair with your water bottle.

  You want to have a dance party or drop your friends out of your crib more than go to bed at night right now, but someday will learn that sleep is good for you.  Everyone is impressed by how alert and observant you are and I hope you never lose that either.

  There are so many times, and probably so many more where I wish you wouldn't be quite so loud, but I hope you never lose your voice.

  You don't fully understand causation yet, but you are already good at pranking people.  Turning off computers and unplugging chairs are your current specialties.  You are also an expert at pulling things off the table when we aren't looking.

  You probably won't remember it, but you:

• ate most of a turkey leg

• watched Ses Carny

• tried to eat your tutu

• watched some of the Topsy Turvy show

• ate a quarter of a mixed berry tart

• tried some crab pretzel

• got knighted

• cheered for Sir Keegan during the joust

• went past Bardwin the bard to get to Jacques ze Whipper

• tried to catch a few yellow jackets

  We don't know why we weren't happy to meet the King, but maybe you will come around in the future.  You downed a bottle like it was your job and snored the whole way home.

  You were very delicate when it came to eating your cake and you didn't understand how opening presents worked.  You loved the radio you got from Aunt Fern once we got it opened.  You were also determined to chew on and squeak the baby chick from the bath set my mom brought for you that I used to play with when I was little.

  I think we had a very successful first birthday and look forward to many more.