The Roper Adventure

Monday, January 15, 2007

Gracie's Birthday Party

Playing in the Moon Bounce with Mommy & Taylor

So I was looking through some files I had saved in my email when I found these pictures of Gracie as a newborn. My baby turned a year old yesterday. I cried in Alex's arms last night after we got home from church. This year has gone by so fast, it seems like it was just yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital and had NO idea what to do with her. Dr. Kovacs, her pediatrician, told me every time I saw him to love her and enjoy her, that she was gonna be grown up before we knew it. I guess I didn't believe him. I'm very conflicted, I'm sad because I am losing my little baby, but I am so excited everyday at every new accomplishment, every new smile, every time her eyes light up when she figures out how to do something on her own. Pray for me, at this rate I'll be crazy by the time she starts school. :-) Anyway, on to the future, but between you and me...every time she comes running up to me or Alex to show us some new skill or to tell us what great thing is going on in her world, I'm gonna look back at these pictures and be a little sad and miss that time when Alex and I was her whole world.

Stella's 2nd Birthday Party

Ok. So the story behind these pictures are as follows: Gracie & I went to my girlfriend's house for her daughter, Stella's birthday party. Gracie was her usual charming self as the

pictures show. And then it was time to go home to take a nap...the second two pictures are evidence that even non-verbal children can plot against parental control.