Birthday Highlights

check out the cute tongue sticking out!

It's hard to believe that last year at this time we were spending our first precious days with our new, tiny daughter. It's so exciting to witness the personality and character that God has given her emerge more and more as she grows! For example, she is so "dainty" with things, often pointing or grabbing with only her pointer finger and thumb together. And this is how she "dug in" to her cake!

doll cake made by Oma and the delicate pincher grasp

Grady was rooting for her to pick up the whole slab of cake and throw it on the ground, or at least shove it in her face, but instead she calmly and oh-so-ladylike just pinched tiny pieces off and placed them ever so delicately in her mouth. She did have moments of rebellion, like when she'd flail her arm holding the pinched off piece of cake and it'd go flying, but none of the fistful-of-cake-into-mouth-shoving urges materialized (hey, I'm not complaining!). She did manage to get rather, well, greasy somehow though!

we were trying to teach her how to put up one finger when we'd ask, "How old are you?" and this is as close as we ever got (notice the cool, "How you doin?" point on the other hand too!)