One

How can it be that my baby is one year old already? Wasn’t it just last week that she was a snuggly warm lump curled up in my arms?

How can it be that she is this big of a girl so soon?

Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were at her Baptism? Smelling her sweet chrism-ed head?

How did it go so quickly?  How can this first precious year be gone?

We’ve gone from newborn gangly limbs

to something with a bit of chub

from my favorite toothless grin

to something a bit toothier

from naughty

to silly

and a few things in between..

but at the end of it all

was you, my love

and a wee little bit of cake