Better Together

12 Months!

Our dearest sweet baby girl Brylianna, we can not even believe you are one year old!!!!! Your daddy and I talked about how it just seems like yesterday that you came into this world and into our little family. ( Here is the link to your birth story) We love you so much! You have brought so much light and joy and happiness and smiles and giggles and LOVE into our home!
You have come so far since that day one year ago in the hospital. You were so tiny and precious and it is amazing to watch you learn new things and smile and find joy in this life.
You have 5 teeth, but we think more are starting to come in
You have the best giggles and smiles
You are the sweetest baby girl ever
Every single time we go to the store, people stop us and tell us how cute you are and what a happy baby you are
You are a busy body and want to constantly crawl or explore and always want to grab at everything and hold onto stuff
You still crawl while holding onto items sometimes
You are getting better at walking around using the furniture, or our hands, and going to stuff farther away
You dislike diaper changes and holding still
You want to feed yourself and love finger foods
You are imitating a lot of things right now. The other night dad was choking and you imitated him. You also imitate, laughs, coughs, sneezes, blowing your nose, and sometimes when we move our heads certain ways or nod etc.
You are so smart
You are so curious
You love everyone
You like bath time
You love pretty much everything we have fed you so far, you especially like bananas and raspberries and avocado
You sleep from about 8pm-8am.
You still love your binkys that you came home from the hospital with
You crawl so fast now
You love other babies and kids
You still dislike the vacuum

You wave bye bye, have blown kisses occasionally, you can sign more (you pretty much clap but we know you mean more) and "all done" in sign language
You say Momma, DaDa, and mostly babbles besides that. You said hi once to Aunt Paige, and you said "Up" and almost said "Bird". You have tried to say "woof, woof''' also when you see dogs.
You love stuffed animals
You love reading books
You love throwing all of our dvds on the floor
You like to cuddle and be held when you are getting sleepy, which I LOVE!
You love music and dance to it now.
You fit in a range of clothes sizes, but are around 12 months for most items and you need longer pajamas because you are tall
You always pull your headbands off
You take 2 naps most days still

You are wonderful and beautiful and such a sweet special spirit and we count our blessings everyday that you came to us. We love you beautiful baby girl!

For your birthday we did a little cake smash and birthday party at your Grandma and Grandpa Hollien's. Your Grandma and Grandpa Buhr, Aunt Kim and Uncle Jimmy and cousins, Great Grandma Nielsen, and Aunt Paige were there and of course mom and dad :)

You loved the balloons and I think you enjoyed your little cake. You also just loved being outside and love your cousins! :)

Both hands lol

Surrounded by cousins and love :)

With Daddy

Your smash cake and the cake for everyone else
I used raspberry muffin mix for your cake, made with peach juice and greek yogurt. And I made a raspberry frosting.
Our cake is Chocolate with buttercream frosting and the pink poufs are raspberry frosting