Happy, Happy Birthday

Maggie and I were the only ones awake for a while on her birthday. This was first thing in the morning.

Let's not even talk about how fast the past year has gone by and how my baby is growing up too fast. It's a touchy subject for me.

We celebrated Maggie's birthday with two little parties: one with my parents and then one with Alan's parents and siblings. Maggie is a well-loved little girl.

I wish I had thought to take off her bib so you could see her cute "confetti dress"

Our little dinner party. Yes, Jared made this face on purpose.

Maggie's new dolly.

Some of the aunts

Aunt Laura and G-ma

Now I know where Jared gets it from. Thanks, Beef.

"What is that glowing thing?"

"Do I have to try the cupcake?"

"Hmm, I'll have to think about whether I like this."

New birthday dress from G-ma and G-pa Curtis. She got so many compliments at church!

Here are some facts about Maggie:

• She is still off the charts for height but has "slimmed down" to a mere 50th percentile for weight. She used to be off the charts in weight until she was about 7 or 8 months.
• She has 5 teeth (that I know of). Four of them arrived at once when she was 7 months old; the 5th just arrived a few days ago
• She crawls everywhere and cruises along furniture. She has stood alone for maybe one second at a time, but doesn't seem very close to walking yet.
• She says Mama and Dada and Nana, but I'm not sure if she knows what she's talking about yet when she says them (???). When I say "Jesus" to her, she'll look across the room to the picture of Jesus on the wall (she is so spiritual). We are working on getting her to clap and wave bye-bye (no luck yet).
  
• She plays games like tilting her head forward until we "bonk" it with our own head. She also loves to find Jared when he's hiding under blankets. She LOVES Jared, except when he hugs her too long or too hard (which he usually does).
• Many people (even strangers at the store) have told me that Maggie looks just like a cabbage patch doll.
  

I have some videos from her birthday I would like to post, but they are taking too long so maybe I'll get around to it later.