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Where has the time gone?!

my farm girl and her poppa

I can't believe summer's almost over and my baby is going to be 18 months old! At the end of september she will be able to start in the toddler room at work with me. I'm excited about not having to leave 1 1/2 hours before work starts but I'm sad that Piper won't be playing with her cousins every day like she has been for the last year. I have been truly blessed that my sis n law is a stay at home mom and agreed to watch my monster for me. It's really something for cousins to be able to spend so much time together like that. Piper loves Carter and Rylee so much and at the same time I'm excited for her to make new friends and to be able to start "school" earlier than some children do, maybe it will help to calm my little daredevil down!! She's quite the climber, today for example I had to pull her down off the window sill, yes the window sill, she was standing on the ledge in our picture window!!! She gives me a heart attack at least once a day!! Now I know why mom's always say they hope their children have a child that acts just like them, I think it's so we appreciate that fact that we're still alive and our parents didn't kill us for driving them crazy! haha!!

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Piper's 1st Birthday

mmmm cupcake
family pic
the princess birthday dress and unkie's cell phone

Last Friday was Piper's 1st birthday!! I was pretty excited up until the day before it actually arrived. I couldn't help but think about how fast this past year has gone, we went from anxiously awaiting her arrival to celebrating her 1st birthday in the blink of an eye. Last year Piper was born on a Thursday so all day the 24th I couldn't help but think about the events of the year before!! It was soo bittersweet. Our girl is walking, talking and apparently has quite the temper!!! (I have no idea where she gets that from?!) She now says dada, momma, go, kitty, uh-oh, poppa, see, this, here, mum-mum (think could be gramma), one day she even told me NO, I know there's more because she's never stops talking but at 10pm at night after being up in the middle of the night last night I can' t remember. Tomorrow she goes for 12 month check-up, looking forward to seeing how big she's gotten but not the shots. I finally got her sleeping through the night again and now it will probably be a restless weekend!! Although the 1st of many more to come as we work towards taking away the bottle!!! I've kind of taken away her morning one but I've had to wake her up to leave for the sitters the last couple of days and it's made for one cranky Piper!!! Well this momma is headed to bed and maybe I can find the time to update a little sooner than 4 months from now!!!! (p.s. I put off going to bed a 1/2 hour ago just to update this and facebook for you Krista, so you better leave a stinkin' comment or I may be forced to delete the blog!! hehe)