Penelope is Five!!!

First Day

6 months

6 months

First birthday Morning

First Birthday Cake

1 1/2

1 1/2

Second Birthday

2

2 1/2

2 1/2

3

3 

3 1/2

3 1/2

4

4 

4

4 1/2

4 1/2

5 !!!

5 !!!!

Onward and Upward!!!

My baby turned five yesterday! Sometimes it seems like time has flown by too quickly, but when I look back at photos of when she was born it seems like that was twenty years ago. In these five years she and I have both grown so much. I have found motherhood to be the most confusing, frightening, exciting, joyful, and really fun experience of my life. It surely has been the biggest learning experience. I love being a mama and this is the girl who made me a mama. This silly, smart, interesting, funny, complicated, fabulous girl of mine.

As we lay in bed snuggling on the night before her birthday, I told her the story of her birth, the story of bringing her home from the hospital, the story of her tiny newborn self. She said "you know Mom, sometimes it seems like I was just a tiny new baby just a little while ago and then POOF! I was a big five year old, just POOF!".  I had to agree. Then she said "next thing you know, POOF! I'll be six, then POOF! I'll be seven, then eight, then nine-" I had to stop her there, goodness! Let's just be five for this year. Happy birthday Sweet P. I love you so, so much!