Has It Been a Year?

Happy 1st Birthday, Sweet Leif! What a year it has been!

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. ----Elizabeth Stone

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. --Pablo Casals

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility. --Kate Douglas Wiggin

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. --Louis Pasteur