Cora's 1st Birthday

Our sweet and crazy Cora is 1.  I know every parent always comments how the first year goes by so fast, but my goodness - seriously, how can she be 1 already?  Where did the year go?  But at the same time, I think for all of us, Addy included, it's hard to remember what life was like before she was here.  We love her so very, very much.

A little help blowing out her birthday candles.

So the cake wasn't beautiful, but she seemed to like it.

Getting a little help with the icing from her big sister.

Cake!  Yum!

There she goes!

It's even in her eyelashes!

And for final thoughts, just some things I want to document of our little Cora before we move on to all the memories that year 2 is sure to bring:

* She has the craziest (and some say creepiest crawl).  She's been renamed "the crab" at the playground because of it.
* She loves to sit on the floor, on her bottom, and spin around like a clock.
* Her first words were "dog" and "ball."
* She does this gurgling thing that makes her sound like Chewbacca from Star Wars
* She & Addy love making each other laugh and scream in their car seats
* Hands down, she has the most remarkable hair in the Lanz family