primrose is one!

how cute is this announcement? my sister in law made it!!!! she is talented.

we took a risk and celebrated Prim's birthday outside! it rained off and on all day but was great weather during the party. this is in our backyard, john and kathy got it cleaned up and put down the mulch! so nice.

we haven't given prim real sugar yet and didn't want to do a cake smash, so the party was fruit themed. we started giving her fruit at about 11 months in moderation so that she could enjoy some at her party and boy did she.

jon made this cute little vase! i'm so proud:)

she loved the watermelon and pineapple the most i think. as you can see, she got a scratch right before her party. she fell under someone else's care.........right onto a branch.

john and kathy got her a swing! i don't even think they knew how much she loves swinging, it was the perfect gift for her!

okay at the end of her party she was looking like a ragamuffin, promise she's not homeless. she fell again and got a huge scratch on her forehead. i'd say that's what we get for having her party around a campfire, but both falls were out on the driveway. poor baby.

playing with the new toy from aunt kaitlyn.

i sent my sister katie a text saying "one year ago today". because on the 14th last year, we had a bonfire and i went into labor that night. she said "what a difference a year makes". i said:

"yeah...." haha. pregnant again.

jon's cousin and her kids were in town over the weekend and prim was in heaven! they were so sweet with her.

her birthday was the next day, sunday! she is almost always this happy. if she isn't this happy, she's at least content. 

she loves her dada. sometimes while we are all hanging out she'll say "dada?" he'll say "yes, baby?" and she'll say "dada?" when i get her dressed i tell her to go show daddy your outfit and she runs to him and shows him. 

i think she loves her mama too. just recently she's started saying mama more often and it makes me want to cry with happiness. when i get home or when i get her out of her crib she says "mama!!!!" she is such a sweetheart and she is so well behaved. we got unbelievably lucky with her and tell her every single day how she's such a good girl. she repeats or tries to repeat everything you say. on the morning of her birthday she said "happy birthday" (and hasn't said it since). that day we  taught her to say happy and now if we ask her to say it she says "happy happy happy!!!" she's walking and getting faster every day. we are all amazed at how smart she is. one of my favorite things is asking her to say something and she stares at my lips as i say it then tries to repeat it herself. the night before her birthday party, i tried giving her a bottle and she kept pushing it away. we'd been weaning her off for about two weeks, and that was the final one. i was dismal getting her off her bottle, but she really has been doing great on all food and milk. i could go on and on about how much i love this child. she is heaven sent, an angel in a baby's body. we are grateful every single day for her. happy first birthday to our little angel baby!!!!

april with the hagerman's

 when we got home from california we started giving prim rice cereal! she was 4.5 months old at the time. our doctor recommended giving her rice cereal at 3.5 months hoping it would help with her reflux, but we decided to wait another month. she was really into it!

 

 katie sent me pictures from when i was a babe and i think these two look like our little angel! we have a picture of jonathan making a face that she makes too!
on april 7th, prim rolled onto her belly then over onto her back at ashton's. i didn't even see the whole thing happen!! that day we left her house and bought a pregnancy test that came up positive! 

 i was still working a couple hours a day for the lady in our neighborhood. i'd hold primrose until she fell asleep in my lap and i loved it. i'd feel her upper half slowly get heavier and drape over my arm. the lady i worked for always said i was training her to not be independent but i didn't care.

 texans take their state flower very seriously. we were walking around daddy's campus when we saw that whoever mowed the lawn mowed around this tiny patch of blue bonnets.

 date night! john and kathy took us to the tejas rodeo while cassidy watched primmy! we missed her, but knew she and cassidy were having fun. the rodeo was a blast and the steak they sell there?? what dreams are made of.

 cutest little thing.

 here she is at almost 5 months old, sitting up like a big girl! 

five months old sitting among the wild flowers.
this is when we started giving her baby food. her first was peas and she seriously loved them.

 first time swimming! we came to this pool all the time last summer while i was pregnant, it was so much fun to be able to take a little baby with us. she fussed a little bit when we first put her in because it was chilly, but she got happy and enjoyed it! such a water baby.

a lot of firsts happening around here: using her little seat thing at the grocery store! now that she was sitting up pretty confidently i figured it was a good time and she agreed.

 (little dress jon picked out for her the week before she was born)

 springtime/early summer is so nice here. it just rains and rains and rains, and not just drizzly rain. we are on the third floor so although the wind makes us feel like we are going to fly away like she does on the wizard of oz, the rain on the roof is so pleasant. 

 see what i mean? so green and beautiful.

prim at her hometown monument.

i sang "it's food time" to Prim and she hated it. i recorded this video to send to my family and they died laughing. sooo sad.

 hehe, here she is with aurora (ashton and aaron's babe). they are four months apart. i made that afghan for her and it is so thick that it's actually more like a play mat! ha!

 we take walks almost every morning, clearly she loves it.

 remind you of anyone?

 hey i turned 27! kathy made my favorite: chicken pot pie!

 blue ring from grandma mitchell and arrow from jon and prim. 

 birthday photo.