This time...

This time last year was a Thursday night. I had just gotten home from a last run to Wichita with my mom - you know, to drop off my gallon-o-pee at the OB's office. We even made it around Kohl's and Wal-Mart. We swung through a drive-thru on the way home because I was like totally starving to death ;) When I got home, we went to eat Chinese with Val and Austin. We joked that Chinese had better not be my last meal before Pop Tart was born. Joke was on me. I kicked back in the recliner, just like many nights before. Oddly though, that night I didn't have all the contractions I'd been having. I even slept decently... until about 3 a.m. when I needed to pee. Again. That's when the 'birthday' started. My water had broke. To be honest, I didn't really want to believe it. I'd been sleeping well and would have liked to have gone back to sleep. =) But within a couple minutes it was obvious that was out of the question. Dac got up (he was sleeping on the couch by me) and we chatted, in a remarkably calm matter I might add, about whether we should go like, NOW, or whether I had time for a shower. We decided we'd better just get it in gear. I mean, after all, we needed to take one last picture. =)

Anyway, you'd heard the rest of the story before here and here. At this time last year we were still a family of three. Peety was super protective of me. We didn't know Reid was a boy. We didn't even have names finalized. We couldn't possibly have imagined what the next year would hold or just how much we'd love the little guy who'd make his debut less than 24 hours from then. 

This Thanksgiving we had a little extra somethin' special to be thankful for. =) We sure are too. Tonight, I held Reid a little tighter, a little longer. I watched him drink what might be his last bedtime bottle before reading "If I Could Keep You Little" to him. 

Now, I'm watching Garth Brooks Live from Las Vegas and wondering how the heck it's already time for this. As much as I want to hang on to my baby, I am so very thankful we have gotten to know Reid. He is healthy and we get to hold him and watch him learn new things each day. I'm happy he's turning one and happy we have such a sweet, beautiful boy to celebrate.