Happy Birthday Luke!!!

Kate is always looking out for me.  She is making sure I don't burn myself on my candle.  She is such a good big sister.

And then she helped me blow out my candle.  (Only because I am too little.)

Digging in.  This is my first taste of cake and kinda like it.

And then Kate helped me eat my cake.  (She is so helpful.)

Today marks the one year anniversary of the day I arrived in this world.  My first year has been full of fun and love and living it up each and every day.  I am still a mischievous little devil; I would much rather play with dangerous things than toys.  My favorite "toys" are the dogs' bowls and Iphones.  I will eat absolutely anything.  At Thanksgiving, Mom gave me sauerkraut and I kept opening my mouth for more.  (I am half German after all.) I still cruise around holding on to things, but I haven't taken any steps; too scary.  I have learned to be gentle with my puppy dogs.  I like to crawl up to them and pet them and sometimes lean in to give them kisses.  My sister is still my favorite things around here though.  She makes me laugh and she has taken to carrying me around the house which is HILARIOUS to me.  I wave good-bye when people leave and I am working on my first words (which makes you wonder, I'm sure, if I can write so fluently and descriptively in this blog, why can't I even utter the word "Daddy" aloud? )  Well so far there are lots of "Dadadada"s and "Nininini"  and "Mamamama" but nothing consistent just yet.  Thank you all for being with me this first year of my life.  We've only just begun!