Dear Adam,
It's been an exciting month! You've been on your first overnight trip, you've been to your first birthday party, and you've grown to almost double your birth weight.
Every time we take you somewhere, everyone says the same thing... "he's so beautiful" and "he's different every time we see him" and "he's so good all the time." Little do they know, huh?
Actually, you are good all the time. It's just that sometimes when you're hungry or wet or tired, you feel like you need us to know about it. Now. Loudly. I can't say that we're used to it.
The good part of you learning to communicate is still the smiles. And the laughs. We found a new game this month, "patty cake." Granted, I'm doing most of the work when we play, but you're having at least half the fun.
Now that you've found your toes, it'll only be a matter of time before you're rolling... and rolling and rolling. Your Mom and I will cherish these few months when we can count on you staying put.It was a real blessing to be home this Memorial Day weekend and to let the three of us spend time together and with our friends. Monday, you and I got to play a lot, and today when I went to work, I really missed you.
You still make me prouder and prouder every day to be your Dad.
Love,
Dad
You've been doing a lot of growing... from seven pounds and change to almost ten now. You're not a lot taller, but you are a lot different. In the beginning, you looked a little like a miniature boy to me... and now you're 100% baby. Before, we almost had to pull out the bungee cords to keep the diaper on you, and now, we're hoping we can use up all the small ones we're using right now before you grow out of them!
The rough spots along the way for us have been mainly figuring out how you like to sleep. You're not too big on the concept... awake more than you are asleep unlike your peers who tend to be the other way around at this stage. The new soy formula is helping you keep your dinner down and probably keeps you from waking yourself up. 
The roughest time was probably this week when Dad became violently ill right after your baby dedication at church. All the family helped, but Mom and her parents really stepped up to the plate, staying at our house for a couple of days to help us weather the storm. It was still a special day for you.
But Dad getting sick wasn't your fault. You've been doing what babies are supposed to do. Eat. Poop. Cry. Sleep. But then, one day, you did something that we didn't expect, but something that just changed the whole world for us. Smile. Not that we didn't ever expect you to do it, but just that you did it so soon. And you won't know for many more months what it means when someone you look at smiles back at you... your vision hasn't gotten to that point, not to mention your cognitive development, but when you do, you'll find out just how wonderful it is, and why it was such a big deal to us.