Happy First Birthday Kaelyn!

Boy how time flies with your second child. I still think that it is next to impossible that Kaelyn is one already. It seems like yesterday that she was born. She is now 17 pounds 9 oz (5th %) and 28 1/2 inches (25%) and is a petite little thing. Since she has been walking now for a month, she has gotten pretty good at it. She loves to explore things and will walk into another room just to see if you will follow her and then she smiles when you do! While she is not really saying words clearly, she does understand what you say. You can tell her to go and get her doll and she will bring it back to you. My absolute favorite thing is when you ask her to give kisses and she will open her mouth, smile, and lean into your cheek. When you pull back, she just giggles. It melts my heart.

We celebrated her birthday with an outdoor butterfly party. All of the Stewarts were able to make it here and a majority of the Sternberg side was also accounted for.

After dinner, we gave her the cake and she was so dainty. She took one finger delicately touched the cake icing, looked at it, and then tasted it.

She never really put her whole hand in the cake. During the gifts, she was particularly interested in the cards and kept opening and closing them. Matthew was set on giving her a tiara for her birthday (I don't know where that came from) and so we let him give it to her last. When we put it on her head she wasn't too sure what to make of it. But then, she just smiled and started clapping for herself. It was too cute and of course, I just missed it with the camera - this is as close as we could get.