LeaAnn Claire turns ONE

Unbelievably enough... the day I thought might never come, happened, and now has passed by almost 3 weeks!! (so behind) Ms. LeaAnn Claire is now officially one as of Saturday, March 3 :D

5 days before her birthday... here she is in one of her favorite spots.

"Oh! You want me to 'cheese'?!" I can do that ;) I just love her big blue eyes...

See ya' later mom... got lots of things to do...

2 days after that, on Leap Day, 2/29, we came home from daycare... set her down on the kitchen floor, and the next thing I know, she's heading up the stairs.... crawling!  I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it b/c Chris had been working with her every night for weeks... TRYING to get her to do it. She would not budge! But not today... she crawled right up them like she had been doing it all her life. She thought it was so much fun, she had to do it over, and over, and over again!

These pictures are from the day before her birthday... we are waiting for Mimi & Pap to arrive. I'm in the kitchen, and I hear Lydia & LeaAnn yapping at each other, then Lydia screeches, I come running in the living room... and what do I find?  This 'big-little' girl STANDING on the rocking chair!!!

Of course I did not get a picture of the actual 'stand' but she was really proud of herself :) Grammy can attest to this 'stand', when she watched her just this past Monday, she said, "anyone who has that kind of balance to climb up & stand on a rocking chair should be walking!" :D  LeaAnn clearly does not agree ;)

Her big 'ol cheese grin :)

Notice the slobber :) a constant in her life right now...

Shortly after Mimi & Pap arrived, big girls got off the bus, and Chris got home, we started in on presents for the birthday girl.

Loving the new princess couch...

Of course we're standing on it :D

She LOVES to put 'things' into buckets, cups, etc...

The morning of her birthday... like the sign in the back? Uppercase Living.... figured I could have it up 4 months out of the year!