1 year old

After the saga of the previous entry I better get to the point! Eden is now a 1 year old. Happy Birthday to our beautiful boy.

On his birthday - Saturday the 23rd just gone, we drove past Upper Hutt to Kaitoke Regional Park. Ranger Steve gave us an intro to the history of the Celebrate Life Totara Grove whilst a hand full of Grandparents and co. entertained Eden (well actually each other) with blowing bubbles.

Duncan and Grandad then dug the allotted hole and planted the Totara then Eden and I watered it with his new watering can amid adoring fans and photographers. What a sunny and only slightly breezy day it was! We ventured down to the riverside for a picnic and birthday cake. The daisies were in abundance.

Eden has so enjoyed having some new toys to play with - I almost wonder what the heck he played with before!

This past year we have gone from:
* Feeding so noisily it is embarrassing to feeding peacefully to feeding with such a wriggle it is annoying!
* Interacting with a being that did not communicate back to one who now has 100 expressions and can share a joke.
* Someone who was satisified for a long time to just lie and sit - despite what his peers were up to. Now he is determined to crawl and climb under or over everything - including me when it is in his way.

Yes a year has gone by fairly quickly but it seems like an age since I was in a classroom. Babies are adorable and fun. I wonder at God's intentions behind his invention of them. Perhaps he thought they would be nice.

I will miss Eden the baby but I have already learned that each stage has it's challenges and unexpected joys. Because I see him all the time, and the changes are so gradual, Eden in my head is always what he looks like presently - I don't have any pictures in my head of how he used to look and older photographs just look weird. I really just do not want to forget Eden the baby - that's all.

So, bring on Toddlerdom, I'm not scared. Much.