My sweet, beautiful baby boy has been home with us for one year now. Amazing!

It doesn't feel like it has been a year already... and yet, it feels as though he has been my child for much longer. It's hard to believe sometimes that he has not been with us his whole life.

One year ago a scrawny, frightened boy took 4 long flights to a new country and a new family. He barely slept that first night home and cried if his daddy was more than an arms length away. My husband and I lay next to our son and stroked his hair coaxing him to sleep and then just lay and watched him sleeping. It took nearly a year and a half to get to that moment. It was one of the sweetest moments of my life and one that will always be etched in my memory.

Now a very sturdy (and hefty), confident boy runs through our house. And to tell the truth he really runs the house... King of his domain.

What a difference a year makes!