We made it! One whole year has passed since that sunny January morning in Pleasanton when you were born! One year; of which you were sick only 24hrs (back in June when we all had that stomach bug) - which is 364 days of perfect health! One year ; of which we were sleep deprived for only 4 months - which is 8 months of perfect rest! One year; of which you only cried......well, a few hours, it seems - which is mostly just perfect happiness and smiles! One year of nothing but love, gratitude and bliss!!!
After getting the perfect dog with Uki, we never thought it possible to also end up with the most perfect baby - YOU! You are nothing but a joy! Life just tickles you and you only see the sun's rays and butterflies; because that's all there is when you're around!
We took two road trips and two trips by plane. You learned to roll over, sit up, scoot, crawl and cruise! You say simple things like: mama and dada - although we're still working on the proper meaning of the two ;-) You understand what we mean - most of the time - even though mommy and daddy speak different languages. You dance to music, drink out of your sippy cup and feed yourself. You love bath time and brushing your teeth ; something we just started not too long ago. (On December 7th the corner of your 4th tooth came through; bottom right). We got you a little toothpaste where the animals on it have two teeth, just like you did when we bought it ;-)
Celebrating the holidays in style, we dropped Uki off at Camp Bow Wow in Elk Grove (being that we didn't think of making reservations, the Livermore site was completely booked out!), packed a bunch of suitcases and took a plane to Switzerland!
April drove the three of us to the San Francisco airport where we got on a Swiss flight to Zuerich! We were told by many people traveling with us, that you were the most well behaved baby on the plane! We got you your own seat in between us, where we made you a nice princess bed with your travel fur, blankies, teddies and such. You actually slept for about 6hrs!! You didn't cry once! Not even taking off or landing! You just love people and places and things to do! Always happy enjoying yourself!
Opa picked us up at the airport in Zuerich. We made it home just in time for dinner and then you went right down to sleep and snored all the way through until the morning. You had skipped both your naps while traveling and only had a half night worth of sleep on the plane; so you were ready to hit the hay! You did well, kept right on schedule with sleep and naps - until about one week into it when you got jet lagged or something and started to be up from around midnight to 3am or 4am for about 4 nights!
We took many pictures while there, so you'll just have to look at those - it's just too much to write it all down. But for the most part we just went on winter walks - all bundled up - and played inside. We had many visitors, went to see some people and celebrated your first Christmas, New Years, Birthday and Three Kings Day!
For Christmas your uncles came over for dinner and we had a close family gathering. For New Years the three of us spent the night at Gotti and Uncle Beni's house, where we had dinner with three more friends and celebrated into the night; while you slept through fireworks and the noise of "sing star" in the living room.
For your birthday Gotti took the day off and we went on a nice, long winter walk around lake Au. It was freezing out but absolutely clear and sunny! You loved seeing all the sheep that were out. We had not one but two birthday cakes (one of the neighbors brought us one and Grossi made you a special one!). You liked your cake! It took you several days to open all your Christmas and Birthday presents; we just left them under the tree and you worked on them whenever you felt like it.
The day after your first birthday, you decided that you were all grown up and you took your first steps!!! Three in a row! Gotti and I were right there on the floor with you and Daddy, Grossi and Opa were on the other side of the living room; they saw you standing there but we saw you take the steps! After that you didn't really want to try anymore; but it was enough for Grossi to make us all walk to Waedi to go buy you your first pair of shoes! We got them about 2 sizes too big thinking it would still take you a while to really start walking.
...it is actually way past the 3rd of January by now and I've come to the conclusion that if I'm going to keep this monthly letter writing up, they will probably be shorter some month than others; we'll see how it works out. We've been so busy and time just flies.
On January 8th, after a 2 1/2 week vacation, we flew back home. You got a couple of teeth more and grew out of half the clothes we brought with us to Switzerland ;-) This time around you didn't nap or sleep at all!! All the way until we were back home and you went down for the night! You were just delirious, and it seemed like someone slipped you a red bull into one of your bottles! You just stood on your seat, squealing, singing, laughing and going crazy for pretty much all of the 12 hrs. it took to fly back!!! We only had 30 min. to go - when you just had it and your battery power closed in on zero, you started crying and just not having a good time anymore. But as soon as we landed and got off the plane you were ok. You fell asleep in the car on the ride back from the airport, got up just long enough to eat some dinner and then went to bed.
It was a very, very nice vacation and we are so glad we made that trip!
Looking forward to what we'll be doing next year.....but let's not rush thing; we're enjoying every minute of it!!!
Happy 1st birthday princess Soraya-Mina!!!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
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