I love mornings with my girl

I call this small collection of pictures "Morning Time Goodness"

Waiting for KaaKaa to come pick her up

She loves her "corn popper"
My favorite basketcase

MOM! I just want my toothbrush!

Her favorite pair of Momma's shoes

This Makes Me Smile

I love this whole body laugh.

I love how she has a little laugh watching herself laugh.

And this is what my heart has needed this week.

A Blessing

I am very blessed to have a mother that offers to do really great wonderful things for me so I don't over stress and have to internally combust. One of the really wonderful things she has done is have a first birthday party for Rebekah in Jackson for our Jackson family and friends so I didn't have too....completely wonderful.

Without further delay, here are the birthday pictures and video.

Happy 1st Birthday, Rebekah!

...just a few days early

The Carter Clan
The king and princess

Beks and her Mamie

The birthday Creep and the little Creeps

aka Beks, Bryant, and Mary Clare

Miles telling Bekah all about the Easter Egg

"A chick! Mom, I got a chick!"A down moment with her Daddy

A little song. I think someone needs a voice lesson or two.

I'm pretty sure that someone is me. Ouch! Mamie and Beks blow out the candle on her cake from Grandmother.

"Let's see if I can get some of that green stuff"

Refined Sugar...a first.

"Mamie! You have to try this stuff!"A first bite of ice cream....

and it looks like she did get the icecream gene from her Momma.

I foresee lots of important talks over icecream in our future. YES!!!

Hanging out with Momma's other favorite while Mom finds some icing free clothes.

And the winners of the Proudest Great Grandparents Award goes to...the Bakers.Miles and Beks

We've been seeing this excited face A LOT lately. She loves her giraffe from the Creeps.

Baby Creep loves Creep. On a sugar high.Laughing in the yard.
She loves the chick. We had a whirlwind trip for a fabulous birthday party with people we love who happen to love our babe. It was great.

Next party, next weekend, more pictures then.

Our Weekend Guests

We really enjoyed our visit with this talented blog writer...see blog here. Rebekah enjoyed "playing" with her. McKayla was kind enough to let her Mom tag along on the visit. This Momma enjoyed that Momma. I hadn't seen her in 4 years.December 18, 2004December 31, 2004

THEN.

NOW.

A few things have changed; BIG TIME.

The girls playing with Beks's "Happy Birthday" balloon from KaaKaa.McKayla is a skilled jumper. She showed Rebekah how it is supposed to be done.We also made a quick trip to Kamper park so the wee ones could swing.

Beks on the slide like a big girl. Rebecca and McKayla on another slide.

All in all, I found our visit spectacular!

Devouring THE word is good for the soulModeling her new hat from MamieThis hat lasted longer than the last one I tried to get her to wear"Uh-oh, Momma has a puppy""I'm gonna get that puppy"
"Almost got it"
"Sweet puppy"
"Sweet puppy, I'm never letting go"

Look how cute she is, and please notice her upturned toes!

One of Momma's favorite times in the day

Look what I made her do

My "short a" moaning resulted in some pretty cute laughs and then a sad pitiful cry. I later learned that her tummy caused the cry and not my moans. She is precious.