Hard to believe that you only just arrived a year ago. Oh, the wonder of welcoming a brand new person into your heart, knowing they’ll forever be a part of you, change you, help make you who you are. You wonder who they’ll be, how they’ll fit. And a year later, there’s no fitting. They belong, and life can’t be imagined without them in their place.

Hard to believe, on the other hand, that it’s been a year. Faster and faster, it flies. Kissing you, holding you longer, treasuring dimples and cries and baby-in-my-arms nights.

How deeply we love you, Fiona Elspeth. My blonde beauty. God was very, very kind to bless us with you.

Happy birthday!