Special Day

It was a year ago that I over-the-moon happily got involved with a bear named Drew. Since then it has been an adventure to say the least.

it probably doesn't come as a surprise but i love the little quirks about you, the things you do that seem natural to you but that make my heart laugh endlessly every time i recall them, such as your makeshift snuggie that you created here.

i used to be able to peak at you secretly through this shelf but alas my cover's been blown... i can no longer claim to be sneaky P. but here's one of my favorite glimpses, one of your pebbly toes Huhuhu...

i like traveling with you a lot, whether it's out of the city like boston and cape may, new jersey for tofu soup and long island for a wedding... or within the city on LES streets -- i like walking with you, being outside with you, and slowly i'm starting to like being under the sun with you, too. this 70 degree day in boston was perfect!

but i also like being in bed with you... :) i am P after all and Ps have a weak spot for beds.

i'm really very lucky to be with such a smart Bear whose brain grows incrementally bigger and bigger... all thanks to his beary big appetite for Smarties!

sometimes your Bear brain can get rather smart-alecky...ahem, like this instance when you decided that enough was enough and i wasn't to get away anymore with double standards in webcamming! since then i'd like to sheepishly point out that i've peeled off the ghetto post-it shield, and shown myself in at least a couple webcamming sessions. please give your P. a pat on the back ^^

looking back at our PB&J days, i'm really glad that you tolerated so many of them... but it's safe to say that we've evolved past PB&Js onto other varieties of food. :) Oh, a sidenote: this picture is from a time when your M&M jar was full! what a change it's been through since. now there's only 1/4 left :P

here we are at Cape May. you can't see my face but it is beaming. and it's because my mind was thinking:

yep, and i won't ever feel anything but lucky about being with you. and well actually, there's something that you should probably know... it is that, over a year ago, on the oregon coast, i had already wished with all my heart that you'd see what i knew then -- that we're meant to be.

this was about a month before we started dating. you were gone for what seemed like the longest stretch in asia. at the time, i didn't know if we would actually ever get to dating, i didn't know how we'd be once saw each other after winter break, or if i'd ever become someone significant to you. in truth i had idea what to expect. but somehow, it just felt so right to refer to you as mine.

The more I get to know you and spend time with you, the more you grow on me. Happy first year, baby, you mean so much to me.