Happy New Year!

Marek has already lived in two years! Happy New Year! 2010 was quite a year for us. In just five days we will celebrate our first anniversary. I can't believe that just a year ago we were up in Lutsen on our honeymoon...getting massages, drinking wine and enjoying the great northland! Look at those lovebirds!

I'm amazed at how our love has changed and grown in just one year. I wouldn't have believed on my wedding day that I could love or respect Matt anymore that I already did but I do and I continue to do so every day. He is an amazing husband and has blown me away at how he so gracefully dove into fatherhood. In everything he does, he has us in mind. He is so attentive to me when I'm feeling sensitive or anxious and constantly surprises me with his ability to love through his actions. I love you honey and thank you for the most wonderful year of my life!

We had such a great holiday season with our new little one and all of our family and friends. Marek was a trooper though all the travel, weird schedules and various beds we've slept in over the past few weeks. Momma was the anxious one but we really had little to worry about. We avoided getting sick and Marek is now settling nicely into a nighttime routine that allows Momma and Daddy to have some time alone. Marek spent the first few weeks in our bedroom in a cradle that was my Great-Grandmother's as an infant. This is very special to Grandma Mary who asked me to take some pictures of Marek in the cradle. We are so happy that Grandma felt good enough for a visit with her newest Great-Grandson!




Today is a bittersweet day for me as we are no longer counting days or weeks but MONTHS! Marek is one month old today and this week was marked by milestone number one: cooing! When he's awake and looking around he is starting to find his voice and gives us some oogles and googles accompanied by big smiles and funny looking frowns. Now to capture it on camera...that's the hard part! We are spending our days cuddling and trying to fit in my old daily routines one by one like doing laundry, making dinner, and exercising. It's not an easy task, especially when Daddy is at work but then I look at Marek and he reminds me that this time is supposed to be for us! He seems like a giant to me already but people keeping saying, "he's so tiny!" We like to call Papa with the weekly chub report. Lots to report this week, he is a month old after all:

That's three reasons to love him right there. Three more on the other side. I might just lose it by month two. Here are a couple more reasons:

Here's to twelve more months of health and happiness!