We can't quite wrap our heads around it, but our little girl turned one years old today. I took her to church this morning and Father Tom sang her Happy Birthday and instructed the congregation to make a big fuss over her, which they did.It has been raining hard today so we had an indoor celebration. We gave Olivia a toy purse of her own, with toy keys, cellphone and coin purse for her to unpack instead of mine. We'll see if the diversion actually works. Yesterday we had gotten some fancy cupcakes and today we took them with us to Mel's diner, where the birthday girl got a red balloon from the staff. She again covered herself with chocolate frosting -- as any birthday celebrant worth their salt ought.
Our week of celebrating is over: Wedding, Valentine's Day, baptism, our wedding anniversary and Olivia's birthday. Tomorrow we return to the daily grind, but for today we bask in thankfulness for our daughter and her goofy smiling presence in our topsy-turvy lives.
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