ONE!

VERA IS ONE!!!!!  Cannot believe it's been a year!  She is such a grown-up little lady!  We had her party on Saturday with a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" theme.  I thought it was perfect and fitting for my little caterpillar who is growing into such a little butterfly!  Susan made her SUPER CUTE cakes of course!  (And super yummy, too!)

 

 Of course she had to have a little bit of help from Grady to blow out the candle...  He was more than happy to help out!

 Vera wasn't so sure about the cake...  it was s sugar rush for a kid who has had little to no sugar other than what's in the baby fruits she eats...

 We all signed a keepsake copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar for her to keep from her first birthday...  Here's Grady signing his name!

 Unfortunately, when you're the mom of the birthday girl, you have no time to take pictures.  Plus, it doesn't help when your camera battery dies in the middle of the party...  AGH!  Way to be prepared, Julie!  So, I need some pictures... (hint, hint...Faye and Viola!!!)

THANK YOU to all of our sweet family who came to celebrate this special day with us!  We were so glad you could be a part of V's first birthday!

Here are some pictures I took of her in her caterpillar dress the other day...  Man, she is so big now!  Going to be a TALL girl!  Still not walking, but pulling up on everything!  She is the fastest crawler in the entire world!  Grady never did crawl on his knees...He was an "army crawler" and drug his legs behind him.  She crawls in perfect formation SUPER fast wherever she goes...She seems to think that she has no time for walking.  She can get places faster in her own way...

 She is the happiest girl in the world, too!  She grins constantly, or has her tongue sticking out.  She laughs all the time...mostly at Grady, who she ADORES!  She wants to be right where he is at all times.  I am afraid she is going to be a MAJOR tom-boy!  LOVES Grady's toys and prefers them over her dolls any day!  Hates socks and shoes, bows, and headbands.

 She is a major drooler...  She has been drooling like mad since about 4 or 5 months old...  So you'd think that she would have a mouth full of teeth.  But no...  only two.  They came in on Christmas night and we haven't seen any more yet...  So she's not eating a lot of food-food...still baby food.  Tried giving her a few things mushed up, but she can't really chew much.  We are hoping for some more teeth soon!  Finally finished up with formula a few weeks ago and she LOVES her milk!  :)

 She babbles all the time, but hasn't really mastered many words yet.  She can say MaMaMaMa and DaDaDaDa, but sometimes she just chants it and I don't really think she means to call our names...she's just "talking" and making sounds.  When she sees Grady, sometimes she says the "g-g-g-g" sound, but that's a pretty hard name to say.  What's really funny is that we have noticed her saying "Uh-oh!" alot lately when she purposely drops something and then wants you to pick it up...  So my child can say "Uh-oh" but not "Mama" and "Daddy"...  HA!  She waves "Bye-bye" and "Hey" and we are working on peek-a-boo and blowing kisses!



I am so grateful that God has brought such a precious little girl like you into our lives. You are so fun to watch and you melt my heart every day.  I hope you have many, many more birthdays and I can't wait to see how much you grow and learn this year, Baby-V!
Love,
Mama