Happy Birthday Adeline

I can't believe Adeline is a year old already. She has grown up so fast. She was so tiny for so long, now she is such a grown up girl wanting to do everything on her own. She has started trying to feed herself with a utensils. If she could scoop up the next bite, we would be flying solo. Adeline hasn't changed too much in what she can do physically, but she is running now. She loves to be scared, and she takes off as fast as she can. She now as 4 teeth. She has added a few more animals to her sounds she can make as well. She also knows where her belly is. When we took her for her year check up she was still 22 lbs, but was 30.3 inches long. Her head hadn't grown anymore either. I'm not sure what I would do with out her. I hate leaving her everyday to go to work. I feel like I'm missing out on her growing up. Maybe one day I can stay home with her and enjoy her even more. For Adeline's birthday we had a few friends over for birthday dinner and cake. She was so excited to have people over she could barely stand it.

Ducks, horses and dogs are her favorite animals so we went for a duck cake, made by yours truly.

She didn't get her candle out by herself, but she did a great job at eating her cake. She kept sharing it with everyone. I'm looking forward to all over our many more adventures we will have with our little fire ball.

Christmas

We had a great holiday season at the House. I think Christmas lasted all month! Adeline got to sit on Santa's lap twice, she never cried, and the second time was a bonus because he brought her a stuffed lion. Above is our beautiful charile brown tree. We hiked out from our house into the forest to go chop it down. It was quite the adventure.

Christmas morning Adeline slept in for quite a while, it was nice to have Christmas just the 3 of us. Aaron carried her out to see what Santa brought her and all she could say was WOW! She was great at opening presents. About half way through she just wanted to play with her toys. She opened a present all day.

All of Aaron's family was able to come for Christmas this year. Above are all of the cousins born this year. Adeline is the oldest, Kate (Jason & Sara) she is 3 weeks younger, Bernice (Jordan & Shellie) born in may and Addison (Heather and Richard) born in November. Kate and Adeline had fun playing together chasing each other around and pulling ordaments off the Christmas tree.

I was a little worried about Adeline being mean to the girls, but she was very helpful with Bernice and Addison, she never was rough to them once.

One of Adelines Christmas dresses, this one is from Grandma Killpack

Her other Christmas dress, this one is from Great-Grandma Armitstead. We had a fun Christmas and spend time with family.