Coming up on a year...

Sigh...I can't believe it.  Jackie is going to be a year old on Monday.  Where did the time go?

Just days old...what happened to this little baby?

As I sit here formatting my blog, contemplating what to write about and what to share with the world, I periodically turn to the monitor to see my sleeping baby.  She will always be my baby...

I long for the days when she was a newborn, holding her for hours on end, staring at her while she sleeps because nothing else in the world matters.  Just a little person taking innocent breaths.

Today, she's a growing toddler...I savor the first glance I get every morning when she wakes...that smile.  That little laugh (okay, sometimes that cry - but it's still oh so cute).  I'm revisiting my blog (again) to record her milestones.  Admittedly, I've missed a few.  Okay - most of them...documenting them.  However, I will back-peddle as much as I can and recreate them on here from memory, before they disappear.  

We have a tooth!

It's time to get the chips out!  Crunchy veggies here we come!  Okay, not quite yet...but soon!  We discovered that her first tooth has broken through...let the drool begin!

Daddy!

Yup, her first word was "Daddy".  Well...it was more like "Dah-dee".  It melted Ron's heart...okay, mine too.  A tear or two was shed. We attempted to get it on video, but no such luck.  We even told her babysitter that if she got it on video there would be an extra $10 'speech pay'.  


So - when does she say Mommy?

The first bite

We gave Jacquelyn her first bite of solid food yesterday at Lola and Lolo's house.  It was rice cereal (note: later I found out it was stage 2 rice cereal, not stage 1...oops - bad mommy).  Well...

It didn't go over too well...

But once she got her bottle...

It was all better...and she got into her bathing beauty suit and was the happy munchkin we all know and love...

Oh well, better luck next time!