My baby's turning one!!!

Where did the time go? Lilly's 1st birthday is Wednesday and it seems like she was just born. She is such a fun baby. I love her beautiful red hair, and will never forget that is the first thing my doctor said to me when she was being born was to ask me if I wanted to know what color hair she had. At the moment I didn't care I just wanted her to be born and done with labor, but I have fallen in love with her red hair, and now that it's getting longer, it looks like she's going to have curls in the back like her big sister. Yay! I love it. I get to fulfill my wish that I have always had for pretty curly hair through my girls. It's for sure they didn't get it from me since my hair is very straight and while it will take curls very easily, it's a whole different matter to keep the curls from falling out for more than a couple of hours. But at least I get to enjoy my beautiful girls' curls. :) Lilly is a very busy baby and can crawl seemingly at the speed of light. She is at the point that she has taken a few tentative steps several different times, but doesn't seem very interested at the moment, she knows that she can go faster crawling and is happy with that and I'm not pushing it too hard, it seems like my baby is growing up so fast. Also her focus seems to be on figuring out how to talk. She is constantly babbling and making little baby sounds and I just love it. My favorite is when she tries to say her big sister's name (Colista), all that really comes out is a c sound and some kind of ta, but it's adorable. All you need to do to make her day is just sit and "talk" with her. She just lights up. She is also learning to communicate without words. She makes it pretty clear what she wants. This weekend we went to Michigan to my sister's new baby Susan's blessing and on the way there, she picked up the can of formula that was sitting next to her and threw it towards me in the front seat. That was her way of saying, "Mom I want a bottle!" She will point and grunt and physically make her wants known as well, or turn away or push what she doesn't want away. Holding little baby Susan made me really realize how much much she has really grown. Hopefully soon she'll actually have some teeth as well. She's following the same trend LC did who didn't get her first tooth until she was 13 month old and now at 2 1/2 still has her eye teeth to get in. My Lilly's not really a baby anymore, she's toddler. It has been a crazy year and I am so blessed to have such an amazing little girl in my life, as long as her basic needs are taken care of and nothing it wrong, she is pretty much the happiest girl on the planet. She has such a sparkle and glow and brings such joy into our home and lives. I can't imagine life without my little Lilly and am so glad she's mine!