Babies grow so fast! *disclaimer* written at the beginning of April....next post is about her first birthday.

 When I look back at pictures, I am constantly amazed at how quickly our (sort of) little baby has grown and developed.  Granted, we started at a one month old's weight, but she still seemed so little to us.

 Just for reference.  Here she is the morning after she was born.

 By her second month, she was lighting up our world with her smiles on a regular basis.  This is what her Aunt Corey referred to as the "glorious pudge" stage.

 By Halloween, she was doing a pretty good job of sitting up on her own in a "tripod."

 Solid foods came not long after and she definitely seems to be excited about the prospect of trying new things.

 Just a cute one of her sitting up again.  She was definitely getting a lot more sturdy at this point.

 Then came crawling.  She progressed quickly from scootch, to an army crawl, to full fledged hands and knees in about 2 weeks.

A week later it was pulling up, in particular, whereever Mommy happened to be sitting.

A week ago, I went to get her from her nap and found her standing in her crib like this.  She was very happy to see me, but even happier stomping her feet and peering over the side of the crib.

Finally, here she is standing in the middle of the floor unassisted at about 9 1/2 months old.  She even stood up without anything to support her.