One Year

My littlest man just turned one year old on September 30th!  I can't even believe how quickly Micah is growing up.  He brings such joy to all of our lives.  He is happy, mischievous and has a smile that could light the world.  See how much our little guy has grown?!?!

We celebrated his life with a wonderful brunch with family.

  The birthday boy...

 Brotherly love...

 Mama's boy...

I just finished working on both boys' yearly photo books in which I document their year in pictures and a little note to them summing up all the things they learned and ways they grew.  Camden's note was included in his Birthday Blog last month and below is the note that appears in Micah's book reflecting on his first year.  As I was working on their books I enjoyed looking back at some of my old posts, especially Camden's Birth Story, Micah's Birth Story and Love Grows.  It's incredible how you can't imagine your life without your children.  We are so lucky to have our two boys who we love so deeply. 

    Micah,

You were born on Saturday September 30^, 2010 at 10:30am at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, NH.  You weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces and were 20.5 inches long.  Just like your brother, you were born six days past your due date, but you were well worth the wait.  You entered this world screaming, and I wondered if that was an indication of your personality, but you are the sweetest and happiest little boy I know.  To be honest, we were nervous to bring another child into this world and wondered how we would be able to share all of our love between two boys, but the moment I pulled you up onto my chest, my world changed forever.  You were perfect in every way and we were in awe at how immediate our overflowing love for you was.  You have definitely kept us busy this year, and although you are generally happy, you are a little mischief-maker!  You aren’t a very good sleeper.  You like to sleep right next to Mama and nurse every 2-4 hours throughout the night.  Your Daddy and I are pretty much always tired, but you’re worth it!  You smiled her first smile at 2 ½  weeks and Camden made you laugh for the first time at 11 weeks.  Your laugh is the most amazing sound in the world!   

Around 5 ½ months you started sitting up by yourself and you cut your first tooth just after turning 6 months old!  At 6 ½ months you started walking holding onto our hands, you learned to crawl at 8 months and you started walking completely on your own during the Women’s World Cup final game at 9 ½ months!  You love to communicate with us using sign language and learned your first sign, “book,” around 10 months old.  Now you can also sign more, night-night, eat, tubby, nurse, please, water, cheese, giraffe and elephant.  You don’t have many words yet, but you sometimes say “Mama” and “Dada” and you love to wave goodbye, give high fives and give lots of wet kisses!  You have pretty much sustained yourself on blueberries and breastmilk, but are finally starting to eat a little more food now that you are one.  You love to climb up the stairs even though you aren’t supposed to and you have a tendency to steal your brother’s toys, which makes him really mad.  You like to sneak into the bathroom and splash around in the toilet bowl and you generally get more food on the floor than in your mouth.  But, you have the brightest smile and the sweetest disposition we couldn’t imagine our world without you in it.     

Happy First Birthday, Micah Gray.  We love you to pieces!