One year old

Happy Birthday Adria!!!

Its hard to believe it has been a year since our baby girl was born. It seems just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital. Adria has been such a joy. We love having her in our family! She bring laughter and smiles where ever she goes. 

Joycelyn and Katie made her cake. They were so fun and made it pink with her name on it, fowersall over, and candy cane on it.

 Adria enjoyed the presents. Her favorite ones were the little baby bottles

 This is her giving the baby doll a bottle. She adores her babies.

Adria loves her wagon, bucket, dinosaur book, link toys, blocks, baby bottles, and shoes. Its hilarious how much Adria loves shoes. She is always finding random shoes around the house and caring them around. She has a word for shoe...its SH. She asks to put her shoes on in the morning after she gets dressed. It is so fun being with her and seeing how much she communicates.

Adria is so big. She is not a baby anymore, she is a toddler. She walks all over, loves to play in the back yard, wants to feel herself, likes to go to the bathroom and brush her hair(but she still pulls her bows and flowers out and then tries to put them back in) Adria talks all the time. She mimics things we say. Her favorite word is still DaDa. Everything is dada... But she can say Duck-du, Dog-daw, Daddy- dada, Mommy- mama, Shoe-sh, She asks question, gives loves(hugs) and even kisses. She loves fruit snacks and get so excited when she finds a package on the floor, she will come running into show us and then tries to eat it.

Adria has a sense of humor and does funny things to get us to laugh. Just today she put her sippy cup on her head while in the high chair and it stayed. This was the greatest thing! She laughed and laughed with me. Next she put her bit of bread on her head and I had to explain how we don't put bread on our head because it makes out hair dirty (it was hard not to laugh when she did this).

I love our Adria so much! I'm so thankful for her in my life. I have decided to take a step back (and not stress about how I never get anything done; or can't blog, or make dinner every night, or do the laundry, or clean the house, or do the dishes, or the bathroom) and just enjoy being with my daughter. She is so special and I don't want to miss a thing. I love to play with her, read books together, swing on the swing, sing songs, play outside, rock her to sleep, do her hair, talk to her, make her laugh, ask her to do things, and make yummy food for her (like the jell-o i made today and can't wait to give to her :). I love being a mom especially to Adria.