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My Little Girl

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…is changing so much right now; I constantly finding myself staring at her and smiling. Dad too keeps saying "did you see that?" "she's amazing" and so on and so forth. She's our one and only, what did you expect? Although she was wanting attention earlier today and dad was insistent about "you are not going to be a whiner." Ha - I just love her personality rain or shine (ok mostly just shine). Although I think our "get over it" mentality as parents might do the trick. She is just so easily amused. I mean, she thinks Mr Smith is funny.

I thought she seemed animated a month ago, but her personality is coming out more and more - adorableness by the minute. Whether she is playing chase (crawling/climbing away from you) or giving me her stink face, I eat it all up.  You can just see her light up when she climbs up in the fridge and just touches everything. She is getting on her knees more when crawling, but I think she feels her belly is more efficient, so she is still my personal sweeper and every outfit is a dirty one. It's a shame most of our furniture is hard to climb, but I have a feeling she will find a way one day. She will be that child.



Here are some unedited images from our snowy week. 





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