A day with my first born....

I spent all day Thursday (Ava's Birthday) with my little girl. We went to the mall and I let her ride the carousel 6 times (she loved it). She rode the horse, bunny, big buck, alligator, eagle and the seal. She also rode the train and little car in front of Kirklands. We had cookies from the cookie company (before and after lunch) and chicken from chick-fil-a (one of her favorites).....we basically did everything she wanted to do. At one point we are going thru the mall and I look at her in her stroller and she is eating her cookie, singing "Happy Birthday" and bobbing her head from side to side (she was having a GREAT time). She had chocolate all over her face and at that moment I don't think I could have been any happier!!!! That night we had her Granny over for a late Birthday supper for her (her's was last week) and she made Ava a little lamb cake (part of the whole "eieio" theme for the next day). Not sure where Ava learned to blow out candles on a cake...but somehow she knew just what to do. Seems like just yesterday I was planning the whole "first birthday" and seems like the day before that I was walking up my walkway holding a 3 day old baby and thinking...WOW!!!! I'm a MOM!!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would get to plan another "first birthday". Before I know it Emma will be one..I'll turn around and they will both be teenagers...one more turn and I'll sending out of the nest...

Gone are the days of sitting still for a pic!