Friday, May 22, 2009

If I had one wish...

Happy Happy Birthday Marley Dear! Our baby girl turned one today. We were going to rent out Disneyland and invite 500 of her closest friends, but we finally decided on a low key day at home. Papa D is here for the long weekend so he and Nate can build a fence for the house. We can't go in the yard because the chain link is already torn down, and the driveway is full of dangerous and exciting tools that can and will be used by Beckham to de-limb himself and others. So, we had breakfast:

Played inside until lunch. Ate lunch, and played inside until nap time. Took naps, played inside until dinner. Ate dinner. After dinner Marley got to open her present:
She was so excited that she gave me a kiss



After dinner and a gift, we sang Happy Birthday to her for the 50th time today and got some token cake in the face pictures:





Nate swore he would avoid calling our baby girl Princess, so as to not give her a complex, and I swore I would not dress her all girly in pink. Well, we have both failed miserably. She has stolen our hearts, and we are mush when she smiles at us with her twinkley eyes. What a blessing to have her in our family forever. We love you Marley Anne.


3 comments:

Emily said...

I love reading your posts about Marley because I feel the same about having a girl and not wanting her to be too girly. But your daughter is SO CUTE! I have a feeling I will cave too.

Happy Birthday! I really can't believe she is 1 already.

Nikki said...

What a little darling she is! They certainly do steal our hearts, don't they? I think the hardest part of parenthood is NOT spoiling your kids! But she is beautiful!

Skyla said...

Happy Birthday to Marley! Wow does time fly! Where is your new house at? So exciting!