Happy Birthday Leah!

Today is my little girl's first birthday! I can't even believe how fast this year has gone, and how much she has grown. You can take a fun trip down memory lane (I did) by clicking HERE to see a few pictures from her first day here.

Today I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I did a year ago, but I did take a few. Her big celebration is still a week away, but I thought you'd enjoy some pictures from her day today. We had no big plans. It's been a very busy week, so today we planned to stay at home and relax. Aunt Jenny came by with breakfast. (Remember when she did that for Eli? Another trip down memory lane...As a side note, if you did click on that link you'll see a picture of Eli on the news. Leah was also on the news this morning, but I did not think the picture I sent the news had gotten through...because I got an e-mail saying it HADN'T gotten through. I tried 4 times and each time had the e-mail returned to me. So I gave up...and then at 7:50 am there she was on the tv...and I didn't have my camera ready :( I'm pretty sad that I didn't get to record her first tv appearance...) She brought Leah a muffin from Einsteins...I think she was excited to get it :)
Little baby, big muffin :)
Mmmmm! Tasty!
Eli and I got some yummy bagels and I got my favorite coffee in the whole world-Einsteins Vanilla Hazelnut. YUM.
Leah took a little nap at 10:30, then had lunch (tried eggs...she spit them right out. So she had some bread, cheese...and goldfish. This girl could eat her weight in goldfish.


This post would make it appear that all she did today was eat...but she did do more than that...she irritated her brother on several occasions, giggled more often than I can count, 'helped' me load the dishwasher and fold the clothes (her favorite household chores) and pretended to take an afternoon nap while I baked cookies. So after a dinner of spaghetti (another one of her favorites) she got a birthday cookie :)

She was pretty happy with it :)

After some more evening fun, she helped Eli play on his favorite website-starfall.com. They both love to watch daddy navigate his way through that site.

She also did a bit of dancing :)

Oh...and the reason she has no clothes on is that she dumped my entire 32 oz bottle of water on her when I wasn't looking. I think she looks kinda like a sumo wrestler with no clothes on...my little chunker :) (Something tells me she won't like that nickname in a few years)

Leah is such a sweet little girl. She's nearly always happy and smiling. She is SO smart. She has figured out all of her toys, and how to get her way :) She LOVES her daddy, and gets so excited when he gets home. She is saying so many words-every day she'll say something new, or try to. She has started 'parroting' things I say. She loves to say her name, and the word 'stinky'...which is what mommy says when she changes her diaper. She's said the words mommy, daddy, brother, ouch, hi (her first word) yucky, uh-oh, caterpillar (I swear she said it once...) puppy....those are the ones off the top of my head. NOW, these might be words that only mommy can understand, and some of them may have been a fluke, but I'm counting them :)

She started walking a couple of weeks ago, so there's no stopping her now! She can walk from the family room all the way through the kitchen. She is SO proud of herself when she walks, and is completely adorable. It's so funny to see a kid walk when they're that little!

She is such an amazing blessing from God. I can't believe how blessed we are to have such a sweet little girl!!