Thursday, July 29, 2010

Hazel Jane: 1 year old

This sweet little girl is such a blessing to our family. It seems like just yesterday that I was pregnant and uncomfortable and wondering why I ever thought I could go though that again. Of course, now that we have her here it was all worth it, but how did she get to be a year old already? I wish I could keep her from growing quite so fast so that I could enjoy it a little bit longer.Hazel has always been a very sweet, very content baby. Her sisters and brother all love her so much. So much that she is often the object of arguments among them. She has slept through the night almost from the beginning and still takes a couple of naps a day. She doesn't crawl, but scoots around on her bottom as her mode of transportation. She actually doesn't even like to stand very much so I'm not sure how long it will be before she starts walking. She cut her first teeth the very same weekend that we moved and cut another one just this week giving her a grand total of 5 teeth in all. She will smile at most anyone who pays attention to her and has not yet developed stranger anxiety so she will go to most anyone. She absolutely loves the water, splashing in it, floating in it and bathing in it. She is such a sweet little girl and we are so blessed to have her in our family.Hazel was just getting over some sort of illness involving a fever on her actual birthday so we didn't do much to celebrate. We did take a trip to the library where they have a cute little children's play area that Hazel likes to scoot around in and play with the toys.

2 comments:

Toots said...

I think Hazel looks just like Eliza...both with such similar features! And both with "z's" in their names. :) Even though I notice that you call Eliza "Elli" a lot. What a sweet family you have.

Heather said...

happy birthday hazel! they grow up fast - rowan will be TWO NEXT MONTH! Ahhh!