Brooklyn is 1!

My sweet baby turned 1 on August 23rd! I can't believe it has been a year already! I cried the night before as I was writing her a note on a picture and I realized that time went by so fast and I will never have her as a tiny newborn again! She has been so fun to have in our family and is constantly putting smiles on our faces. She has been such a sweetheart these past few weeks and we have loved the little things that she has started doing.

She is......

*Walking! She doesn't walk real far but she is doing really good at standing up on her own and then walking maybe 8-10 feet before she falls.

*Waving... She loves to wave Hi to everyone! She doesn't understand goodbye, so you have to say Hi to her when you are leaving to get her to wave.

*Giving kisses and giant hugs! The funny thing, only daddy gets the kisses and only mommy gets the giant hugs. We don't understand it, but she won't kiss me when I try to give her kisses and she won't hug daddy around the neck like she does mommy. We will both take what we can get from her though and we love getting the kisses or hugs.

*She has her favorite spot. It is so funny, she loves to sit on the bottom step. Sometimes she will have crawled away and I will find her at the bottom of the stairs just sitting and kicking her feet. If we can't get her to sit in her high chair to eat, we just put her on the bottom step and she will eat it all up. I think she likes it because it is just her size to sit on.

*Weaned! This is both good and sad for me. I decided on her birthday that we were done nursing. I nursed her the next morning and that was the last. She has done pretty darn well with it but she has REALLY taken to her pacifier the past few days as a comforter. I miss the snuggle time we would have together, but I know with being pregnant that it is time to give my body to this other baby and let it grow without someone else taking nutrients it needs.

She has other small things that she does that is so cute but I will leave it at that. Here are some pictures and a video of us as a family just hanging out in the office on her birthday.

Brooklyn is 1! Opening Presents

Here is Brooklyn opening all of her presents. She got this purple dog from my mom and mark.

Here she is getting into the blocks that grandma and grandpa Gabler got her.
James and I wanted to get her something special so we got a picture of a little girl with Christ and framed it. We wrote a special note on the back for her that hopefully she will refer back to often when she is older. This is hanging on her wall right now and adds a special touch to her room.

I'm sure that you have noticed all of the toys all over in the pictures, aunt Celeste brought all of Maddie and Sophie's toys from when they were little and we were shocked when we saw them all. She had a blast playing with them with Maddie and Sophie. She also got all of their clothes, so she got hooked up this present.

Brooklyn is 1! Cupcake Eating

Here is Brooklyn eating her cupcake! She had so much fun just digging and destroying that thing! Or should I say things.... James decided that one wasn't enough and he gave her a second one, she was on such a sugar high all night!

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