My baby is ONE!?!

Before Pumpkin was born – and in the days and weeks after – there’s one bit of advice that stuck with me more than any other: “Enjoy every moment – it goes by so fast.”

I did my best to savour the little things, to document the first year and photograph it, to cherish the late-night feeds and early-morning snuggles, the toothless smiles and grumbly baby sounds.

But no matter how hard I tried to make every moment count, time still flew by.

Now I’m sitting here, watching my gorgeous little one-year-old, and I’m still not entirely sure how we got here so quickly.

She’s so different from the little red wrinkly bundle we brought home from the hospital.

Already so independent and curious, almost walking and chattering non-stop in her baby gibberish. She has also mastered the art of selective hearing.

I’ve lost track of how many teeth she has – when she laughs, her mouth already seems full of pearly whites. Her hair is growing so fast, I’m pretty sure you could see it getting longer if she’d just sit still.

Although she doesn’t sign consistently, she has definitely used the signs for “more”, “thank you”, “milk” and “finished” and she waves when she feels like it. She also mimics noises we make now – like meowing, bear growling and an elongated C-sound that requires her to scrunch up her eyes and clench her fists.

She had a fake sneeze for a while too – but she seems to have forgotten about that trick.

There’s also quite a little personality developing, complete with likes, dislikes and an odd sense of humour.

Favourites:

• Movies: Tangled and Frozen
• Foods: Banana, cheese and paper
• Toys: Kitty, Ploddy and her maracas
• Song: Old Mac Donald (sometimes changed to Grandma and Grandpa’s farm)

During her birthday weekend, we enjoyed pottery painting and took her for her one-year photos.

On her birthday, we had dinner at Nando’s and she fell asleep before her birthday cupcake and the chance to open presents. We still sang happy birthday to her while she snoozed.

Then, she got to eat her cake and play with her presents the next day.

I still haven’t managed to finish assembling the play kitchen that we got for her though.

I’m beginning to realise that a significant portion of motherhood involves assembling toys and flat-pack furniture.

Happy birthday to my beautiful little girl. I can’t wait to see what the next year brings us, but if time could slow down just a little, that would be fab.

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