Her First Birthday Party

Here’s my little girl, all dressed up to go to a birthday party. This was the first party she was invited to, and we had to get her ready with her party dress and little braids.

Sometimes being mom to a daughter is like having a live Barbie doll. I know that in a few years, she’ll never let me dress her up, but for now, I’m going to just enjoy it. Here she is again, ready to go have fun.

We saw the dinosaur exhibit at the museum (it was a dinosaur themed birthday party) and she got to pet a snake and a turtle. We also went outside to look at the animals. We saw wolves, deer, and here’s my favorite thing we saw:

It always amazes me how huge bald eagles are! Almost the same size as my girl, hunched over. But we had a fun mother-daughter day. She was all business, moving from one animal to the next. The exhibit that caught her attention the most was the dinosaur dig, where kids could “discover” bones by brushing away the sand. She kept exclaiming, “Mom! Look what I’ve found!”

And I had to remind myself that these are the times when you just smile and enjoy it. Because they grow up so fast…