How in the WORLD are you a whole year old today?!?! It seems like yesterday that we saw the word pregnant on that little stick. Little did we know how drastically our lives would change, and how incomplete it had been before your birth. The day you were born is the day our family was finally complete.
I remember when we found out you were a little girl. I was in complete shock. Even though my gut told me you were a girl (everyone else thought you were a boy), I was still in shock. I was going to get the little girl I had always dreamed of!!! I knew your name before we left the doctor's office. Abigail Susan: after your mommy and Grandmommy. This is where Abby Sue came from. Everyone in mommy's family calls me Jenny Sue, and so naturally you became Abby Sue. ;)
You were originally due on mommy and daddy's 5th wedding anniversary, April 1st, but that was changed to April 5th. I still think the 1st is more accurate. So...you were either 2 days late or 2 days early. Either way, you entered this world much how you act each and every day....with wild abandonment and excitement...and absolutely perfect! :)
I started feeling labor around 3:30AM on April 3rd. I didn't realize what it was until the "cramps" I was having started becoming more and more regular, and began hurting. This is when I woke your daddy up. He fell right back asleep. I woke him up again....and we started timing the contractions. By 5:30 AMwe were on our way to the hospital. At 10:12 AM on April 3, 2011 Abigail Susan Anderson came into the world and mommy, daddy and Caleb were instantly smitten.
The past year has been amazing. You have amazed us with your personality, your ability (and want) to eat anything and everything, your obsession love for your big brother, mommy and daddy, and your spunky personality that Grandmommy calls my "payback."
You are the most perfect little girl, and I thank God every single day for blessing me with the privilege of being you and Caleb's mommy. I love you sweet girl!!!
Happy 1st Birthday, Abby Sue!
I love you to the moon and back,
Mommy
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