Look who's 1

I can't believe she is one already. Where did it go?

I knew for a few years that we needed to have another baby......But it wasn't happening.  We tried for over 2 years. Mr.T kept telling me "we" were getting to old so I has said when I am 35 we will stop trying. So at 35 I started on birthcontrol pills. A few months later I had to stop taking them....and wouldn't you know 3 weeks later I was pregnant. Oh we were so happy and couldn't wait to find out what we were having. I was sure our luck had run out and we would have a boy and honestly I was ready for another boy. It had been years since our son died so I was ready. But to Mr.T's total delight we were having a girl. He LOVES having his girls.

Then the debate of the name started. Mr.T INSISTED we give her a President name. If you havent notice all my girls have President names, some actual realize it. sooooo the list of names was limited. I refuse to name a child Maddison (I know a horrible child named that) so we were left with Carter or McKinley. She was going to be Carter Lyn for a while Lyn being my sister in-law Jessica Lyn who actual had a baby the same day as said child. anyway......Lyn is also the middle name of Mr.T's ex-wife and I just couldn't get over that so then we had to use Jessica as a middle name. After much debate and me putting my foot down her name became Mckinley Jessica. (Many family members and friends didn't like it but they love it now) She fits her name perfectly.

#3 has been stubborn and willfull since conception. She wouldn't let the Dr. hear her heart. When I did stress tests later on she would not move and again we couldn't get her heart beat. She was a stinker. We set a date for the C-section. Dec 26th and she didn't agree, she wanted to be born Dec 25th and she had to beat her cousin Kannon by 30 minutes.(Who was born to Aunt Jessica) She has done everything on her time. Rolled over,crawled and ate when she was ready. She drives me crazy some times. But oh she is an amazing little girl.

She is happy and funny. She finds things so amusing and funny it makes me laugh. She is content with the simplist of things I could not ask for a sweeter,loving baby.

We really thought alot of how we would celebrate her birthday. I didn't want it to get pushed aside because of Christmasand . So we have decided to celebrate it a few days before so that it is completly seperate no combining b-day and Christmas presents. I also didn't want to ignore the fact that she has a special birthday being on Christmas so we decided that under the Christmas tree on Christmas Day she will have 1 b-day present wrapped in birthday paper. It is the 1st present that gets opened that morning.

3 days before Christmas we had a party for her. I made cupcakes and made her her own special one. I love how they turned out. (Though I will not make it a profession)

She was being so silly and kissing her cake it was so cute!!!!

                                       And of course the destroying of the cake.

Daddy thought it would be funny to push her face in to the cupcake.....So we have frosting boogers.

After a quick bath it was time for presents. She really wasn't that interested but she liked the Nativity Little People Grandma & Papa got her and trying to eat a bow.

We had a great time and can't wait to have many years of birthdays with her!!!