Happy 1st Birthday Ethan!

One year. 12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. 525,600 minutes. 31,536,000 seconds. Seemingly, all gone in the blink of an eye. Someone once told me that time passes quicker the older you get and if I really wanted to see how fast time passes, have some kids. Boy were they right!

The last year has been amazing. Simply amazing. Just when I thought life couldn't get any better, Ethan entered our lives. It's exactly like someone once told me when I was worrying about how you can love another child as much as your first. She explained that God doesn't give you a little pie of love and you divide it out equally. Rather, it's like the Grinch. Your heart has the ability to grow and expand to accommodate the overwhelming amount of love that you have for your children. It's so true.

I could literally eat this kid up and of course, I totally dig that he's as much into me as I am into him. I'd like to take a walk down memory lane. My heart is literally fluttering as I look back on these pictures and I remember the moments. Is that the way it will be when my kids are grown? Perhaps the tears a mother sheds at a wedding for her child has more to do with the compounding of moments from the life shared with her baby. In an overwhelming flooding of memories, the body has to do something or it will explode. Oh dear...can you imagine MOI on Madison or Ethan's wedding day. Maybe we should go ahead and invest in Kleenex stock! And just like that, our boy is growing up! *sniffle* I guess it really is true. Time flies when you're having fun!


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Yesterday, I was a mess! I rocked Ethan to sleep and soaked his jammies with tears as I whispered, "just stay little, just stay little" over and over again. I know I sound manic, but please don't worry about me. I just have a hard time with my kids growing up. This moment in time is so fleeting and so precious. So incredibly precious. Perhaps I break the norm of truly getting how fleeting time is. How we can never ever get this moment back.

It's a shame that parenting is filled with so many time-snatching routines. There isn't much time in a day that one can just sit on the floor and play with the kids. Dishes and laundry can only wait so long to be cleaned. Houses don't clean themselves and well, parents need sleep too. We're left to snagging mere moments while we're dressing the kids or they're circling our legs while we're cooking dinner to steal some kisses and laughs. It's just not fair.

Enough with the philosophical renderings of my head and heart...let's talk happy stuff.


"Happy birthday to ETHANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday to you!" we all crooned in unison over and over today as Ethan watched with excitement!


Happy birthday Ethan! Mommy and Daddy are so proud to have you as our son and look forward to the years to come! What a tremendous blessing! Stay tuned for birthday cake pictures! Party is May 30th and it's going to be great!