**Beware LOTS of pictures below**
Okay, okay, her birthday was really Sunday but that was a busy day for us as it was EPs only day off.
What a roller coaster year, really. I remember in the weeks before Starlet was born I would randomly cry thinking of how I was changing all of our lives and would SB ever forgive me. I would brag about how I wasn’t too worried about this one because I had done it all once before. Seriously, I ATE MY WORDS!
It was a matter of minutes after delivering that child that I realized I had just entered the unknown. Girlfriend came out SCREAMING and screaming she did for a long time.
(me shhhhh-ing Starlet)
I remember kinda feeling like a bad mom those first few minutes because I could not stop her…the midwives are all staring at me (not really, but my hormones told me they were)…the photographer….EP…my parents. Once we got home that day (at 9am) i remember trying to take my midwives advice and sleep but I was way too pumped, so I wrote out my birth story instead. I regretted that decision at about 11p.m. when Starlet woke up crying…and crying…and crying… I told EP at one point, “send her back we got a broken model.” At 6 am, after being up over 24 hrs, we finally ALL slept.
(still not sleeping @ her newborn shoot with Keri)
I remember the first month being such an adjustment (duh). Trying to figure out how to get everyone to bed…sleep deprivation…nursing issues…Starlets projectile vomit issue… What had I done?? I kept telling myself, 12 weeks…. but in the back of my head I was looking forward to November (6 months). Then, EP left for Kentucky and I understood fully the terms of man-to-man defense versus zone coverage. I seriously can hardly remember anything about last summer at all. They aren’t lying when they call the first three months the “black hole.” Because one day, around 12 weeks, you wake up and go, OOOOOhhhh, I’m human again.
But there were so many fun things you to look back on…. (Trust me you really don’t recognize them when you are in the hole). Ummm….and as I sit here trying to remember them all I can come up with is her first smile?? Geesh…bad mommy….I guess they also aren’t lying about that second kid syndrome. maybe these…. (i can’t resize them??)
Starlet took her first flight in June at 6 weeks to Kentucky. (funny, i don’t remember her ever sleeping that much!)
In October, we relocated to Charlotte, NC for three weeks.
January she had her first “road trip” up to Tulsa to see daddy….and another one in February. The first trip it snowed HUGE so we couldn’t do much. The second trip we contracted pink eye. Yay!
In May, um now, we are in Pigeon Forge, TN. I have to say she is one adaptable baby. Though it is getting a bit harder the more mobile she is….crawling on hotel floors = yuck!
Other fun things….
And the other day my girl Mae (who was the receptionist at my Chiropractors office all while I was pregnant and she was pregnant and we bonded. She’s also the first none family member to be introduced to Kenlee) ANYWAY – Mae asked if she could come take some pics of Startlet…uh, yeah. So here are some cuties!
And this one from this weekend of her on set (everyone has awesome cameras on set—major lens-envy)
I love you, I love her, and I’m so pumped to be a part of her first year, and your first year as a mama with a daughter! I can’t wait to see what this next year has in store for you!
Oh Amanda….she is such a beautiful ONE year old! I often ask myself, “why does God make the first few months so hard?” Thankfully, through photographs we remember “those times” we otherwise have lost all memory of. Love all the smiles captured!
so, you’re trying to hint to me not to have a second one??
i love all the memories from her first year. she’s just beautiful!
She’s such a different girl with her hair down in the one on the set. My goodness, keep it up so she won’t grow up too quickly on you.
Adorable pictures and what a sweet post.