The end of nursing

On Saturday April 16th I nursed Samantha for the last time, it was bittersweet. I knew she was ready, she was not taking much from me at that point and I was just holding on for me and our routine. I am beyond happy and proud we made it to a year! Our breastfeeding experience was nothing but wonderful and I can not wait to nurse our second whenever that may come.

The transition to milk was not easy. For one I never pumped since I am home with her, so she never got milk from a bottle. Two breast milk is MUCH thinner then whole milk. So when she hit 11 months, I started to try to get her on milk....well it took a whole month but we did it. We had to use strawberry syrup to flavor her milk and I put less and less each day till we are finally at no flavoring! I am so proud of our little girl!

Happy 1st Birthday Samantha!

Today you are one year old my precious Samantha Grace! I can not believe how fast the time has gone, and yet I really don't remember life too much before you arrived! You are such an amazing baby! You light up my day each morning when I go to get you and each night when I lay you down to sleep for the day. You have developed SUCH a personality, you are so happy, fun, energetic, and just so lovable! We had your big party this past Sunday and it was a blast, mommy cried while singing happy birthday to you, because she just loves you so much and I am so proud of you!

At one year old you are

-Crawling so so fast
-Starting to stand on your own
-Talking like no ones business
-You want to climb on everything
- In size 3 diapers
-In 12 month clothes
-Eating all table food ( your favorite is pasta any way you can get it, and sweet potatoes)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY PRINCESS!!

Well Hello April....

Wow this year has flown by! In 13 short days my little baby girl will be a whole year old! I cant believe it....I'm still in denial that my little tiny baby is going to be a toddlers in less then 2 weeks! This time last year I was almost done with work, taking guesses on when Samantha would make her big debut and just enjoying every moment with her still inside my belly...

Samantha is just a perfect baby ( except in the car) she plays, problem solves, talks and just amazes me each and every day

This weekend we are going to get her 1yr pics taken! I cant wait to see how they turn out!