Anna's Echos

Anna, soon it will be for first birthday. I think of a year ago when our footsteps must have sounded like
enormous echos entering the room  where you slept tucked in mothers arms, then changing to Daddy's hands. You were so quiet. We bent to see your tiny face and nose and say that you were the prettiest baby in the world. Soon we heard your cry-your first important echo, saying that you wanted to eat-that you were wet.-that you were sleepy-The echo etched; onto our hearts each in different ways.

Now months later the echos have grown-they the landmarks-Down crawling with grandpa, cutting two teeth, crawling over and batting on the stereo, then swaying for an entire minute, your bottom stuck up in the air going from side to side to the beat...oblivious of all else.

As of now, at ten months you stand erect and walk. You toss cell phones down and bang cups at parties, and give wet teething slobbers for kisses. You look at us and imitate our every move. There was the day you stuck out that tongue and tasted the air.; and the delightful belly laugh, like how daddy did; now stranger anxiety where you get furious and cry real tears that stop like that! when Mommy comes into sight. It's not that you are the only baby but that you are the only baby to us. Your echos are unique and beautiful to those who love you...Echo honest echos, big echos, echos of integrity.,We Love You -Dear Little Echo...Anna from Grandma