One Year Old!!!!!

Well, we are having some Internet issues, so we will have pictures up later!

Alexia is just an amazing little girl! She is far beyond the typical development for a one year old, physically and mentally!

At her one year check up she weighed 24.5 lbs and was 31 1/2 inches tall!!! She got her vaccinations and had a routine CBC to make sure all of her levels were normal. She didn't even cry when they drew blood from her little arm. She is such a brave little trooper!

Alexia loves to pick up books or toys, then walks up to us turns around and backs to our laps and sits down! It is so cute when she does it, we hope to catch it on camera, so we can post the video! She also has a little bit of a mean streak in her, if she finds out something she does bothers her big brother she will do it over and over again and laugh. Such a naughty little thing! :)

Alexia idolizes her brother and her daddy! She loves to chase them around the living room and enjoys wrestling them as well! She is very much mommies girl too though, she loves to cuddle mommy and read books. We found out the other day that she does not like it when mommy holds other baby girls. She really wanted her mommy to hold only her! Perhaps it is a good thing that we are not planning on having any more babies because we don't know how Alexia would take it! Luckily Blake was not jealous at all, although he still does love his one on one time with Mommy and Daddy when Alexia is taking a nap or visiting Grandma!

The past year with this amazing little girl has been more of a blessing than we are able to express. The joy of her birth helped us through the hardest time in all of our lives and she has been nothing but the best in every way! She brings exactly the element that we need in our family! We feel so complete as a family of four, each of us brings something different to the mix and it is such an amazing dynamic! We cannot wait to see what this beautiful little girl has in store for us through the next year!!!!

Hopefully we will be able to post the pictures from her birthday and her one year check up!!!!!

God Bless you all!