Happy Birthday Lena!

Our little Lena has turned ONE!!!! Not sure where the time had gone!!!She sure has been a fun little addition and DEFINATELY keeps us on our toes:)I call her my little spitfire because that is JUST what she is!!!  She is a little devil baby that knows what she wants and WILL get her way whether we like it or not.  I'm still not quite sure how to parent her, she's thrown me for a loop.  I remember when she was born and she was screaming like they all do... I remember thinking there was something different about her scream...it was more, I don't know, determined.  And then they finished all there test and wrapped her up and gave her to me and she fussed a little but then I craddled her in my arm and she just looked at me, stopped crying, and closed her eyes and went to bed.  I didn't dare MOVE!  Even then I somehow knew she was content -DONT MESS WITH HER.  So I fell asleep in the most uncomfortable possition possible:)  But you just can't help from laughing at her determination and falling head over heals for the little stink! 

She is definately the smartest of all my babies - no offense to the others, they were smart too - but Lena is a genius!  haha don't all moms think that of there babies:)  Seriously though, she will study something and figure it out - I guess a good word to describe her is DETERMINED.

So on to her birthday day!  We celebrated by getting her one year picture taken, which I'm sure she loved:) and then had half of the Gerratt's over for cake and ice cream (Mutual/cub scouts was that night)  I think her favorite part was just playing with the big kids:) it was pretty precious - she was in heaven!

On to the Birthday cake - I was SURE Lena would just DIVE in...not the case:(  I think it was late, she was already full, and there were to many people watching.

Seriously, do I have to eat this?!?!?So she wouldn't have anything to do with touching her cake so Curtis was feeding her with a fork...then I gave her a little ice cream...then Curtis gave her a little cake and...SCREAMING, CRYING, VERY MAD BABY!  So I picked her up and she attacked my icecream.  I guess she wanted ice cream not cake for her birthday!

Back to school presents from Grandma and pa!  They were in HEAVEN! Thank you!

We tried again - SUCCESS!