One Year Older and Wiser Too!

Happy Birthday to Payton!!! (Nov. 3rd)

Payton and Mimi!

Three Generations

I just can't get enough of that smile!

 I can't believe she is already a year old! Where did all the time go? I feel like yesterday she would curl up on my chest and just lay there and snuggle with me. Now when i try to snuggle with her she wiggles and cries and smacks me and laughs till she gets to where she wants to go. She doesn't even look like that cute little baby in these new born pictures I have! I miss that little baby! But at the same time it is sooo much fun to watch her grow and learn. Like for instance today when i was nursing her she unlatched herself and sat up and looked at me and smiled then signed 'more' and went back to nursing. It was so stinkin adorable! Also I'll be in the kitchen cleaning when i hear her jibber jabbering and i turn around and she is sitting on the floor with all her books scattered around her with one propped open on her lap and she is turning the pages and talking as if reading her book out loud the way I read them to her! and another: Today I started playing 'Round and Round the Rickety Road' on her palm the way that my Mom played with me when i was a kid and after I was done she grabbed my hand and did it back to me. Or after her baths when I brush her hair and then put the brush down she very quickly grabs it and brushes her hair some more as if to say "i can do it!." She makes me smile every day and I'm so happy that I am the one lucky enough to be her Mom.

We had a blast at her birthday party. We had a lot of great friends over and had lots of cupcakes. And Payton started walking on her birthday and has never gone back to crawling! Now she pretty much runs everywhere!