I have been planning this moment for months now, and it finally came! Our beautiful little Brooklyn just turned 1, and I am both thrilled and saddened by this event. It seems like yesterday when we drove to the hospital in anticipation of the delivery of our baby girl, and this past year flew by faster than I was prepared for. It won't be long before she's walking now, she pulls up and cruises onto everything and I can tell that she doesn't really need the support of the objects she holds onto to help her stand. I hear mothers tell me that one day she'll just start walking out of nowhere, and it's bound to catch me off-guard. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that news, just about everything she does is both surprising and new.
...Moving on to her first birthday experience, the party was a hit! She loved all of the attention she was getting. She crawled from one person to another and tried to get into everything she could get her hands on. It was almost impossible for me to keep her little birthday crown on, and I am lucky I got so many pictures of her actually wearing it! I spent four days making her castle cake (which I thoroughly enjoyed!), and when we gave her a piece, she couldn't care less about it. All she wanted was the princess on the cake! All in all it was a great party, and she had no problem with sleeping in the next morning (lucky me!).
