Happy Birthday...to our baby

Anyone who has kids knows that it is nearly impossible to wrap your head around the fact that your child comes to you as a helpless infant and within a radically short span of time becomes a citizen of the world with ideas, opinions, proclivities, quirks, mannerisms, dreams and desires of their very own. 

Just to look over our shoulders for a moment...

In the beginning:





First birthday.

                                                                                               Second birthday.


Last year.

Earlier this week:



And just yesterday. 

Here she is world!  She stands on her own two feet and is ready to take you by storm.  Consider yourself forewarned.