Slow down button

Dear Raegan grace,

In less than 24 hours you will be 13 months old!

Where oh where does the time go??? I really wish there was a slow down button so that I could just keep you little forever!

But I know if I keep you little forever I won't get to see you do so many wonderful things (just like in the book Aunt Katie gave you for your birthday)! I know you will do wonderful things. It's really just bittersweet. I am so proud of all that you are doing but I still miss how little you use to be!

Time just flies by us. It really does... I thought I just woke up and now it's past my bedtime!!! Crazy I tell you crazy how when we are little time is not on our side, then just when we think it is, we have a child and bam time hates us again and we wish for it to just slow down.

Raegan Grace, mommy loves you. I am trying to so hard to slow down! I don't want to blink and miss a single thing with you. God, is it easy to do! But I am trying to relish in you as much a so can!

You were so sweet today. We went and saw Aunt Katie and Uncle Brendon and watched the football game with them. You were such a sweet girl and smitten with Uncle brendon! :)

When we left to go home you were so tired and refused to go to sleep in the car. You finally fell asleep 5 mins before we got home and when I took you out your carseat to put you down for your nap you refused so out of your crib you came and you played hard!

Your such an independent child. You took your high chair seat and spent 5 mins figuring out a way to get it off the couch. Then the tray fell off and you spent another 20+ mins trying to figure out how to put it back on! So persistent you were! It was so cute watching you sit in your chair, get up, and keep trying over and over to get that tray back on. You had daddy and I laughing and admiring!

You also kept sitting on your pony and it played "I'm a little pony" song over and over while you nodded your head up and down with the sweetest most prideful look across your face! I really love that look! You were so proud of yourself! Ohhh how I adore you!

Your such an amazing baby! You fill my life with so much pleasure and love! My oh so happy sweet baby! I love you Raegan Grace Smallwood all the way to the moon and back forever and always!

Love Mommy!