More 1-yr. pictures

This one's my favorite. :)

Addie's "re-birthday"

Today is Addie's baptism birthday. So I decided to try and take some pictures of her in her baptism dress. She wore it for her baptism, but it was slightly large. :) I wanted to get pictures of her in it when she got bigger, and it fits perfectly now.

If you enlarge this picture you can see her fat bottom lip. This morning she was standing with her back to the couch and tried to take a step towards the coffee table but tripped and hit her face on the table. :(

I'm a child of God!

Playing with the roses on the hat.

A few birthday fairy pictures

Tomboy at heart... hey, I tried!

Playing with the leaves....

More sticks....

Wanting to get up and walk.

More interested in the stick...again.

She's had about enough at this point.

Acorns are cool (and I'm not talking about the group ACORN...).

Birthday reminasces

It's amazing how fast time seems to go when you have a child of your own. Today is Addie's first birthday, and at about this time a year ago I was probably trying to sleep, despite my high adrenaline still running. We got through those first couple weeks of sleepless nights. And looking back, I wouldn't trade those nights for anything. Thank you, God, for the blessing and gift of Adeline and her life on this earth.

Eating her hand at 20 weeks. So hard not to find out what we were having at that time, but I'm so glad we didn't. It was the best "surprise" in the world when the doc held her up, even though I thought it was a girl the whole time. :)

Welcome to our world.

At home, just a few days old .

Walking and sippy cups

Adeline is walking! Yesterday she took about 5-6 steps from her little play table to Rachel. She's done this a few more times since then. She thinks it's pretty funny right before she decides to walk and laughs. We'll need to take a video of her walking and post it sometime. Addie is also officially drinking out of sippy cups. She never liked the bottle, and went straight from nursing to this. And as of Sunday she is fully on the sippy cups. She's been saying more "words" also. Lately she said "all done", and "uh-oh" after dropping something (she said it on her own).

We've been doing a lot of geo-caching lately - free (except for maybe the cost of gas to get to the place), fun, get some exercise, and we get out of the house. Joel starts school in about a week and a half, so we're trying to take advantage of his open Mon.-Thurs. schedule. Joel got called in to work today to do some overtime - another blessing!

We'll post more later this week. Addie has her first birthday party tomorrow night. Should be a packed house here!