Jul 08
21
Happy Birthday Marion
Today was Marion's first birthday! It is hard to believe that she is one year old already–time has passed so quickly. Even harder to believe is that she is now a toddler! That's right, Marion has been teeter-toddling about the house for a couple of weeks now. In the past few days she's really taken off, and now she's pretty much running roughshod over the house. It is so strange to catch her out of the corner of your eye walking into the hallway. If you don't look at her directly, you would swear that it was a little magical gnome who snuck into our house. Anyway, we have a few cute videos of her walking that we will be posting shortly. This post is dedicated to her birthday, though.
First a quick anecdote about her actual birth night. Marion was born at 10:43pm on July 21. After she was born we were all exhausted from the long labor, but Jackie was especially exhausted. So, I capitalized on this opportunity to snuggle in bed with my little baby on the cot in the hospital room for her first night in this world. Almost exactly one year later, last night at around 11:00, Marion woke up and started fussing. I picked her up and brought her into bed with us. She laid on the pillow next to me while I pet her hair and belly, and her eyes started to grow heavy. All of a sudden she rolled over towards me and lodged herself firmly in my armpit. I continued to pet her belly and she looked up and me and gave me a big grin. I gave her a kiss on the forehead. Then almost immediately she closed her eyes and went to bed, snuggled up next to me just like her first night. It was best moment!
Now on to the birthday pahty. We celebrated her birthday over the weekend with a little party at the Tilden Park Nature Area. We held a joint party with her friend from our childbirth class, Zoe, who was born a few days after Marion. Marion had fun feeding all of the animals at the little farm, had less fun eating her ice cream cake, had a blast running around the grass chasing bubbles and playing with little friends, and then went home exhausted and slept like a champ. What more could a girl ask for on her birthday? As usual, we have pics (plus more pics and video at Zoe's blog) . . .