ONE Year Old = Ein Jahr Alt

12 May
Ella's Birthday!

We can't believe she is one year old!  We are so thankful for Ella and the joy she brings to our lives.  Truly a great blessing to us!  It is incredible everyday seeing Ella's beautiful personality unfold.  She is so happy, determined, strong willed, independent, curious, energetic, friendly, loving, interested in the world and others around her.  She draws attention from everyone around her that sees the light and spirit she has.  Literally everywhere we go she makes us a new friend and lot's of looks and compliments.  She is so unique and beautiful.  From the way she hops happily from place to place, instead of crawling when she knows how, to just smiling, her cute silly noises, and her beautiful hair and cuteness.  Not to mention she is the only one that wears bows or flowers in her hair here and people love it.  It is very new to everyone here.  I think I need to start a little business.

Her special day.  We went to Krabbelgruppe = Crawl Group like every thursday, though today Ella got to sit in the middle and they sang Happy Birthday to her in German.  She loved it & just kept looking around at everybody, she knew it was her special day!

Holger had a lighter load today thankfully and we took her swimming, as a special birthday present.  She loves water so much and we had a fun time, the day followed with gifts, and cake of course.  Since she loves Banana so much, I searched for a Banana Cake recipe and made it for her, it was delicious.  Though I didn't put icing on hers, perhaps I should have, but I thought sugar overload and with her previous sensitive tummy we would wait a little bit.  Hope she doesn't mind later :).  She was mostly into the bananas I put on top anyway.

She was one loved little girl and got gifts from a couple of neighbors too, they came in and said the exact same thing, Wo ist die Geburtstag Kind? = Where is the Birthday Child?  Three German books, an adorable stuffed animal, crawling pads, a musical pop-up toy and an airplane that drives across the floor.