Happy Birthday, Miriam!

Almost exactly one year ago, Miriam made her peaceful entrance into the world right here in our living room. One of the best days of my life!

I still need to take her official one year old portraits, but wanted to make sure I put a post up today wishing my sweet baby a happy birthday. She is a delight and joy. I love her to pieces and am so happy that I get to be her mother. Her smile and laugh light up the room. Her hugs and cuddles make me melt. I love being her favorite person in the world. There is not a sweeter baby than my Miriam.

Happy Birthday, my beautiful girl!

summer solstice flowers

Happy Summer Solstice!

My roses are in bloom and I had to snap a few photos of them today to celebrate the official start of summer.

one of the reasons i've been neglecting my blog

I've been planning this event. 

I am SO excited to meet one of my personal heroes Carol Lynn Pearson!

Look for a picture of the two of us on here next week. :-) 

Hopefully next week I'll be able to start catching up on here. I have lots of stuff to post. 

Summer is turning out to be quite busy!

11 months

Time just won't stop! Miriam is now 11 months old and cuter than ever. Seriously. Look at that face!

and this one

and this one

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This past month, Miriam has had a lot of development. She's wants to walk most of the time holding our hands or the furniture, but she also finally started actually crawling. This means that she spends more and more time playing on the floor and exploring. She's also beginning to eat a bit more even though she's still toothless. She is such a cuddly baby. Much more so than Asher ever was at this age. She gives the best little hugs and kisses. She babbles and sings. She says Mama but we haven't distinguished any other words yet. She is definitely a mama's girl but she's starting to go to Jared more and more even when I'm around. And will let a few other people hold her for short amounts of time.

standing

She loves standing against the couch like this, dancing and clapping and watching Caillou with Asher.

Is that not the most adorable little profile?

love

at the table

Miriam is starting to spend more time actually sitting and eating in her high chair. Slowly but surely she's starting to like table food. She's had the drinking water from the sippy cup down for awhile now though. It makes her look so big.

yesterday and today

A lot of our life is spent hanging out together in the living room. Miriam loves walking along all the various furniture around the room. And occasionally getting into trouble by pulling out all the tissues from the tissue box!

what? I have a blog? perhaps I should actually post on it, eh? I'll get around to it soon. Promise.

happy mother's day to my mama

Isn't my mom hot? This was taken when she was in college. Before she was a mother. I'm sure that the girl she was then probably didn't dream she'd end up with five kids. She probably didn't know what a wonderful mother she would be to us. She probably didn't realize all she was capable of doing and being. I'm so grateful for this girl and the mother she became. So grateful for the mother she taught me to be.