Well yesterday was my first official Mother's Day as a mother. I was bitten (in her defense it was an accident- we were pretending to eat and I didn't get my finger away from her mouth fast enough), had bubbles thrown in my eye (again she didn't mean to - she just hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet), and I was told "no, no, go away". And yet it was a wonderful day. Even when she threw my present at me instead of handing it to me.

We started out the day be going to church then home for lunch and then we did a little shopping and headed home again. After an unsuccessful nap we discovered the sun had come out and it was getting warmer so we tried out our sidewalk chalk that the Easter bunny brought and then played with the bubbles. She loved the bubbles - absolutely loved them. After we were both half soaked from the bubbles we came inside for a bath. At some point in there we made cookies together. I decided snickerdoodles would be a good project for us. Alexa was in charge of the cinnamon sugar. She insisted on using the measuring spoons (she calls them "keys") to stir. I made the dough then gave her balls of dough to roll in the sugar but she sometimes decided she needed to reshape them. Then she would put them into the cinnamon sugar and smash them down onto the pan. They turned out pretty good. We had to test them as soon as they came out of the oven afterall!

It is hard to believe that last year at this time I was in the midst of planning to go get Alexa. So much has changed in the past year. Some days I go to sleep exhausted. My house has never been so messy, my yard and garden have been neglected, and I would not change anything! Tonight when I took her to the park and put her in the swing she giggled and giggled and when she was finally done with the swing we went to the slide. I followed her up the stairs and she went down first then waited for me and I could hear her calling back to me - "Mama coming?" Then we headed home and blew kisses to the moon.