Just the Five of Us: Our Baby is ONE!

Sniff, sniff...

Our little baby is a big one year old! Seriously, seems like just a couple months ago I was opening up this adorable "Birthday Girl" dress my friend Marie gave me at the surprise baby shower my friends had for me. It seemed so huge, size 18 months! My little baby will never be that big! Of course, she wasn't even born yet! Yup, fits perfectly now, a year later.

Well, most of you know, we didn't plan on having any more kids. We thought we were just great with the two boys. But, God had a different plan for us and honestly, now we have no idea what we were thinking! We couldn't imagine not having this sweet little girl in our family! She has brought us all so much joy. Just goes to show you, God knows WAY more than we do! What a little blessing she is!

I tried to get her to play with a pretty flower, but she just made wierd faces at it!

She may be all dressed up in a girly girl dress, but she still wanted to play with the cars! That's my girl! Look how happy she is!!!

After a broccoli, chicken and pasta dinner with fresh oranges our neighbors brought home from Florida (Lizzie's favorite) , she got to open her presents. My Aunt Deb and Uncle Chuck in Wisconsin sent her the best "baby-sized" kitchen set! She LOVES it!!!! Thanks guys for the great gift! By far, it's her favorite new toy! We had a hard time getting her to open the rest of her gifts because she didn't want to stop playing with her spatula, salt and pepper shakers, egg/frying pan, etc...

So, she opened the hand-made knitted doll her Great Grandmother Dickson made for her (which I'm sure took hours and hours and hours and is totally adorable!), but Daddy got to pose for the picture since she was right back to that kitchen set! Later, G.G., she did play with the doll, so all your hard work wasn't for nothing! Thanks for the wonderful and thoughtful gift!