Aria just turned one a few weeks ago and I can hardly believe she’s almost walking!

It feels like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital, bathing her for the first time, feeding her around the clock and waiting for that first, oh so perfect smile J

Fast forward 12 months and she’s become her own little person, full of personality and spunk…she just cracks me up.

For her first birthday, David and I took her back to the hospital where she was born and had our own little picnic on the grass outside.  We wanted to tell her the story of how she was born eight weeks early - because she couldn’t wait to meet us - and how for five weeks Daddy and Mommy drove back and forth to the hospital to visit her before finally bringing her home.

After eating some dinner, it was dessert time!!  I’d baked her a little carrot cake cupcake and for the first time in her life, Aria experienced the taste of sugar!!!

For FIFTEEN minutes, she sat there on the blanket, consumed with every mouthful.  Mummy and Daddy didn’t even get one glance.  Usually Aria is very sweet with sharing her food too but this time – oh no…there was no chance she was going to share even one crumb!