Happy Birthday, Dear Courtney. Happy Birthday to You!

Yup...she's one. How time flies!

The past year has been filled with sleepless nights, worries over bumps and bruises, crying (both her and me), and all sorts of issues I hadn't even thought of.

And it's been great.

She continues to grow stronger, older, and smarter every day. I am continually amazed at things she can do and how far she's come. To think back a year to a little girl who was only 3 and 1/2 pounds, hooked up to all sorts of monitors and ventilators, and only able to eat through a feeding tube. Now she's a thriving 1-year-old, eating regular foods (she loves waffles and graham crackers), and more mobile than I really care for. She already looks for trouble, I can only imagine the trouble when she starts walking.

So now that I've got one year under my belt, I guess I can be considered a veteran father even though I still have no idea what I'm doing. I guess the two of us will just have to figure it out as we go along.