No more days! Happy Birthday Rupe!

April 16th 2009 a little boy was expected to make his debut into the world! 10 days, one intense labor and one absolutely beautiful epidural later... and Rupert Wesley was born! At 6:27am my beautiful 9 pound 4oz baby boy arrived on the scene.

I can't believe it has already been a year! It has just flown by! We have had so many changes to our little life, moving, job changes, buying a house! yikes! so many big steps we have taken in this past year. So to commemorate this momentous occasion here is a little love note to our precious birthday boy from his mommy and daddy...

Dear our precious baby boy... mommy and daddy love you ever so much! You are a constant joy in everything you do right from the time you wake up to when you lay your sweet head down at night. Here are some things that we love about you...

1. How exited you are to start each day: smiles, hugs and giggles greet us every morning!

2. Your pointer finger! You love to point at absolutely everything you see, I cannot wait until you can talk and tell us all the things you are pointing at!

3. Your love for all things Thomas. We love watching your face light up every time you see him and the way you dance to his theme song!

4. Your whispers. We love trying to hear what you're saying when you use your whisper voice.

5. How much you love being outside and how excited you get at the prospect of getting to go out!

6. Your love for your friends! Which at this point is pretty much everyone. You are constantly giving out hugs and kisses to our friends at church and our family.

7. The way you love your little buddy Otis Lee (cabbage patch doll), I may shed a tear the day you realize that he is not real.

8. The way you light up every time your daddy enters the room.

9. Your inquisitive nature. I love the way you inspect everything you find.

10. Your chubs! I know we sometimes get frustrated when other people say how big you are all the time, but we would not change you for the world! We love your chubs!

11. We love your love of books! We love to watch you sit in your little book corner and "read" your books.

12. We love you because you are you. You are the most special and wonderful little boy and we are so glad that you are ours! We love you Rupe-a-lupes!

There are many more reasons we love you, these are just a few... 12 to be exact, one for every month of your little life thus far... we can't wait to discover even more reasons that we love you!

Happy Birthday buddy, mommy and daddy love you!