Today is February 3rd, 2012 and in just a couple of hours (1:15am) you will officially be a one year old. Wow. My stomach turns to knots and my heart aches a little just thinking about it. This has been the hardest year of mommy's life but yet, it has been the best and the most rewarding. I love you more than I ever thought I could love. You are my moon and my stars, baby. When mommy was pregnant with you, I knew that what was coming would be a challenge. What I didn't expect was you. You are me. My mini-me. You are stubborn and are all attitude but you are so silly, too. I know that I've said it before, baby, but you are my greatest accomplishment. My sun rises and sets with you (sometimes quite literally). When you smile at me, it doesn't matter how bad my day has been or what else is going on in my world, when I see your smile my world stops and all I see is you. Baby, you amaze me. You make mommy feel things that she never knew she could feel and I am so thankful for that!
As of today, you are crawling all over the place, you are climbing the stairs at lightning speed (with mommy behind you, of course), you will walk holding onto the furniture, our hands, or your walk along toys but you have not started walking on your own just yet, you have four beautiful teeth (top and bottom fronts) with at least two more coming very soon, when you hear music that you like, you start clapping and flailing your arms about (you LOVE Family Feud!), you clap and wave and blow kisses to everyone and everything unless asked to do so (you do not like to act on cue), you refuse to say "mama" anymore, even though I know that you can say it. When I try to get you to say "mama" you very prominently look right at me and say "DA DA DA". Silly girl, you keep me on my toes! You are still nursing at least 3 times a day and sometimes more if you are having a rough day. You are very attached to mama in this aspect and even though I know that it's time, it's going to be very difficult weaning you off.
You are quite small, still. At one year old, you are still wearing mostly 6 month onsies, 9 month bottoms due to the big booty your cloth diapers give you (it's too cute!), mostly 6 month tops but you still pull off some of your 3/6 tops, and you are just now starting to outgrow your 6 month jammies but the 9 months are so big that you can almost crawl right out of them. Your daddy and I had to take you to the doctor recently when you caught a little cold and you weighed in at a whopping 17 pounds. Our little lady! Your 12 month check up is on Monday and I'm looking forward to seeing how tall you are now.
So, my tiniest love, even though I'm a little sad about what day tomorrow is, I know that we have such an amazing future and that not only will I get to teach you about life, but you will teach me about life and about who I am and who I am destined to be. This next year will be our greatest adventure and I can't wait to take the adventure with you and your wonderful daddy! I'm going to sign off now, darling. It's 11:13pm and you will surely be up early in the morning so mommy needs her rest. Big day tomorrow!
I love you,
Your Mommy (a.k.a. your biggest fan)
XoXo
P.S. Here are some of my favorite Sophi moments from the past year:
