Better Late Than Later

I had meant to post a month-by-month pictorial for HR's birthday, and then I forgot. But I still want a visual of how far we've come in a year. Here it is, a couple of weeks late.

Having it all laid out for me like this really brings it home. What a baby goes through in the first year is mindblowing. My boy was a bean, now he's a stalk, growing stronger and more independent by the day. It happened without my noticing, almost. About the first picture: I'm not gonna lie, I was in love with my pregnant belly, I was never shy about posting pictures of it. But I'm one million times more in love with what it produced.