Isla, tomorrow you will be ONE

To my most beautiful Poddy wiggle, in less than 12 hours you will be a whole one years old, this is totally shocking in some ways as it truely feels like you were just born a minute ago.  Your first year on earth has been a magnificent one. You have grown and reached all your milestones faster than expected, you just have to walk.  Lena has been encouraging this milestone by making you push your cart around the house and up and down the long passage.  You can now also, point to your tummy on request, your nose, my nose and you put both little chubby hands over your eyes when I ask you to show me where your head is.  You kiss us too, when we bug you for kisses, you adore your daddy and kiss him the most, you also do this very funny frown thing when I talk sternly to you about staying seated in your high chair.  You hair is getting longer and you seem to have many soft curls that bounce all over your head.  You love foot wear, and hold your feet out for socks and on occasion for shoes too.  You dont let me put clips or bows in your hair and you tug at bibs and necklaces, but you love the hair dryer and come and sit beside me when Im straightening my hair in hope that I flick the dryer over your little head.  Gioia simply adores you and tries on every occasion to hold your hand or kiss your face, you tolerate the attention only about 21% of the time. Oh boy, can you eat, anything and everything.  You have a wonderful appetite for tasty food and life it would seem.  You are now off the breast and enjoy the warm bottles of nido we give you.  Gioia and I have just finished wrapping your birthday gifts in pretty flowery paper and Gioia has hidden the items in her cupboard till the morning.  We are so excited to share in this moment with you as you fill our lives with so much love I cant even put into words for you to read.  Your little face as you peer over your cot in the mornings is perfect and fair and your shiny blue eyes are always happy and enquiring.  Daddy calls you Dora as you explore all day long, in here, out there, up here, opening this, closing that.  You are a beautiful perfect human being with a wonderful nature and temprement and I cannot wait to see what the next year brings, I can only forsee more wonderful moments, much hearty laughter and memories that will keep me company when you are big and off somewhere on your own, conquering the world and shining for Jesus.  Happy Birthday my precious girl.  I love you so much my hearts sometimes feels like its going to either implode or explode, I can never be sure.  God gave you to us and we will raise you the best way we know how and we will give you a life full of adventure, stories, memories and hope. You will know exactly who you are and how much we love you and that you can do anything and be the best. 
I love you
Your MOMMY