ONE!

Jane turned one about a month ago! (I'm a little behind.) I can't believe how much she's grown in the past year and how much she has learned in such a short time. She is officially a toddler now! We love having her as part of our family and seeing how silly she's turning out to be. I am blessed to be her mother.

• She started walking at 9 months! She was very determined to get around as fast as she could. Even now, sometimes she tried to run! She needs to slow down!
• She is officially done nursing! (This happened a little after her birthday) I had a pretty good experience and have definitely learned a lot, but I am glad that she has moved on. She won't drink whole milk, but she loves cheese and yogurt, so we try to give her plenty of that!
• She has a big girl car seat now! It makes her look so much more grown up in a convertible car seat versus the infant car seat. 
• She laughs more and gives us big goofy grins. We love to see her happy goofy self!
• She loves to carry around Adam's scripture case like a purse. She'll put toys in it and carry them around. 
• She had her first ponytail! I don't put them in very often because  she likes to pull them out, but they look very cute on her!
• There's probably more that I don't remember too!

We had a little family party for her and her cousin Rigdin (he was born a week or so before Jane) at my sister's house the weekend of Thanksgiving. It wasn't anything big, but it was fun to spend time with family and celebrate Jane and Rigdin. 

The day of her birthday we celebrated by taking her to the library for her to play with the toys and books there. Then we took her out to eat at Wendy's where she had chicken nuggets and french fries, which she loved! Then we brought her back home to open her presents and have some cake. She loved opening the presents and playing with her new toys. However, she didn't want to eat any of her cake. (We don't know how much she likes sweets... which I guess isn't a bad thing.) It wasn't anything big, but we were able to celebrate the first year of her life, with all of it's ups and downs! 

We love our Jane!