ONE.

I cannot believe its been a year since Lyla graced us with her presence.  My pregnancy with Lyla put me through one of the toughest things I've ever faced but I would do it again in a HEART.BEAT for her.

You know how you love someone so much you could "just squeeze them to death".  I'm not real sure who came up with that phrase because it doesn't really sound like something you would want to do to someone you love so much but seriously....I could just squeeze her!  She is the sweetest little thing.  She is always smiling, eating, reaching for any and everything, crawling and babbling.  Probably my favorite thing about her is her smile.  She wrinkles her nose and shows her teeth, love it!

Poor thing has had 5 ear infections since January and is well on her way to tubes.  She has 4 teeth right now but 2 are popping through.  She will eat literally anything....even dog food.  Don't judge.  She still has a big ol' head (bless her heart) and doesn't really care for headbands anymore.  I have to sneak them on her head.  She is still army crawling.  Now she will actually get up on all fours and will pull up occasionally but she is in no where close to walking...I'm ok with that :)

I'll be honest, I never really thought of myself as being a "girl mom".  I thought once we had Gage we would probably have all boys.  I'm not sure why I felt that way maybe because I wouldn't consider myself extremely "girly" and I don't have a lot of sympathy which has kinda back fired considering Gage is not afraid of anything and rarely gets hurt (I just knocked on wood by the way).  However, I love our little girl too.  Girls and boys are just so different but don't ask my how or why because I don't really know.  We just know how blessed we are to parent a boy and a girl....really to even be a parent is a blessing.

So here is our Lyla girl.  What a joy she has been so far.  We couldn't imagine life with any other little girl.  Happy first birthday Lyla Ray!

More pictures to come.......