Baby girl is 1!

It was a fast year....crazy fast!  

It was a hard year...REALLY HARD!  

I feel like a champion.  

We made it through.  

I guess I thought I was super mom and did not expect the addition of child #4 to make that much of a difference.  What is one more person????  Hee Hee.  I know better now!

But, she was a gift that I am thankful for EVERYDAY! 

Sweet girl is now 17lbs. 1oz.  She is 28.5" long.  She has been walking for several months.
Her new trick is walking backwards and she is very proud of herself.
She has two teeth on the bottom.
She likes all food.
She goes to bed between 7:30-8 p.m. and wakes around 7:00am.
She takes two naps a day.
She still sleeps in my closet :) 

Her smile is contagious.  Her brown eyes are beautiful!
I still can't stop kissing, smelling, and squeezing her.

She is slowly starting to like others that are out of her comfort zone.  The workers in the church nursery cheered for her when I picked her up last time b/c she went the whole hour without crying!!

Her reflux is under control with meds.  She is my first spitter/puker.  I'm SO GLAD that we got control of the issue.  It was pretty stinky around here.

Here are a few pics from her birthday weekend.

It was hard to get a clear picture.  She was flying around the house with her new grocery cart.

(This was a great Tot-Trade deal!)

We also got her a water table to play in.  She really liked it!

Smiling with her beautiful store bought birthday cake!

(Gasp)

Not even special ordered....just picked up straight from the case.

Her siblings were cheering her on.  

They wanted her to dig right into the cake.

She didn't really trust them :)

I love the expression on her face!

Once she decided to trust them....

 She devoured her first piece of cake!

  It wasn't the birthday I planned....that party was cancelled b/c baby girl had a fever.

It was just Mommy, Daddy, and her 3 siblings.

I bet she thought it was perfect!