One Year Old!

There she is – our one year old baby girl!  Its crazy to think how fast the past year has flown.  And she has grown so fast.  (Part of that I think is that she wants to keep up with that big sister of hers.)  Her actual birth day was spent kind of low key because she really needed the almost three hour nap she took to finish kicking a cold.  But we made up for it at the party.  The day before, Kinsley went to the doctor and measured at 29 1/4 inches and 22 pounds 13 ounces.  He thought she looked really good and happy and healthy.  (Officially he said the cold wasn’t in her lungs, which was a good thing for me to hear.  No more RSV here, thank you.)  And then he gave her permission to eat cake!

For the party, we had our friends and family over to celebrate.  Holly’s brother made Kinsley a great cake with a purple hippo on top.  Kinsley got the hippo and tore it apart.  I think she may have tried a little bit of the cake, but it was way more fun to make a mess.  She really enjoyed just playing around with the people that were here.  Myla helped her open her presents and the other kids had fun playing with them.  It was a good day – and she was exhausted by the end of it. 

We are very much in love with this little one.  She is a true joy to be with and mostly very happy.  She’s become quite the ham for the camera and loves to smile at us.  Her new thing is also to give us hugs, over and over, which we don’t mind at all.  She has definitely developed her own personality and will voice her displeasure at being moved from someplace she wants to be.  She likes to play chase and be tickled and play with her tongue.  We love her, love her, love her!