A couple who recently had their first child were determined to make every moment count with their newborn, and now have the "greatest gift" to themselves as he turns one. Katie, 27, and her husband Andrew, 29, live in California with their baby son who recently celebrated his first birthday. Many parents will tell you the importance of the first year of your child's life, and how quickly it all goes—and Katie and Andrew marked every month of their son's first year in a special way.
Katie told : "We are new first-time parents to our sweet boy and have quickly realized how precious this time is. I've found that capturing and creating home videos that we can reminisce on forever is the only thing we really have to hold onto this precious time one day." So, to hold on to those memories as tightly as possible, the couple created a video montage, made up of clips of them blowing out a candle with their son every month.
The , shared to her account @katiemcginty22 on August 16, starts with Katie and Andrew holding their newborn son and blowing out a candle on a cupcake bearing the number one: one month old. It continues to him at two months, then three, all the way up to his first birthday, with the , beginning to smile and interact with everything around him, and his parents looking on proudly. It ends with the little boy on his first birthday, with an entire cake to himself and sitting by a special 1 balloon, as his parents blow out his candles.
Katie wrote over the clip: "When t.