Ashlynn: 1 Year Old!

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Ashlynn's first b-day! And immediately after she's begun to change SO much, particularly in that she's begun talking! First words had to be "whoa" and "wow". She says these ALL DAY LONG!!! And they're actually well-placed expressions, too. For example, when dad (aka, me) pulls out in front of a car and guns it b/c we don't want to be late for Church you will hear a "wow" from the car seat in back as we did the other day. Other recent words have been "bye bye", "night night", she tries to say "duck" and "quack" but there's some progress to be made on those. She just started saying "amen" on her own at the end of our prayers. Even if she cries throughout the prayer because she just wants her food she joins us in saying "amen" when it's over. And yesterday we were sitting in the middle of stake conference and Ashlynn, from the middle aisle, through the open doors, and across the lobby, spotted a large picture on the wall that she saw the night before. Her finger shot up, pointed proudly and said "Jesus"! We've shown her several pictures of Jesus and say it often but she found this one and remembered who it was without us prompting her! It's been SO exciting to see her make sense of the world lately.

Oh, and Ashlynn made sure to dance to every hymn we sung in our meetings yesterday. It was definitely hard not to laugh. No matter if it's the organ at Church or the muffled blare of a dying car stereo from the road behind our apt, if there's music she'll dance.

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6 Months: (Look at those massive cheeks! This was them at their finest)

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