Little Everett...7.9.09

The first year of your life has been dynamic.  Your birth was so memorable, racing to the hospital, running red lights in the early morning and barely making it up to the room before it was time for you to arrive.  It was a magical rush of mind and body that we will never forget.  Hudson still loves to hear the story of your birth.  It is his favorite.  Now exactly one year later at 4:17AM which is about 2:47PM in India, you are zooming around Delhi traffic with your "ma ma", daddy, Hudson and Priya in an auto rickshaw.  It is about 100 degrees with high humidity and you look around sweaty and flushed, but not phased at all!


The first year of life has been a pivotal one for the whole family.  You have been along on so many trips to North Platte, Colorado, St. Louis(when you were 6 days old) and Portland to see beloved friends and family.  You have experienced many hard good-byes.  You have flown to India, moved to the Himalayas and already been on a trek.  You have seen the Taj Mahal.  You have greeted many new faces with ease and learned to eat Indian food.  You have slept in all kinds of places including a "chair bed" for the first 3 months in India.  You have been a passenger in every imaginable kind of transportation...plane, car, train, taxi, auto rick shaw, sling, backpack, cycle rick shaw and bus.  You have watched the monkeys out our front window and danced at an Indian wedding.


Even in the midst of a lot of chaos and change for a little baby you charm us each day, make us smile and remind us of the simple little joys.  Hudson and Priya adore you.  They love to wrestle with you and make you laugh in your crib before bed at night and first thing in the morning.  You are not afraid to get into the mix!  You are a loving, adaptable, busy, active and on the move, crawling one year old.  I believe that your dynamic birth and first year of life is an indication of the kind of boy and man you will be and we can't wait to be a part of it  Cheers to this second year little E!