Happy Birthday, Vyanna!

My little peanut turned ONE on March 30th. Vyanna, you have grown and developed so much in the last year. You light up everything around you and are silly to the bone. In the last year you went from tiny newborn to independent toddler. You love to bug your sister and brother by pulling their hair, but also want to play along with them. You already like to tease and love to be tickled. You need cuddles sometimes, but want to do your own thing most of the time. You fit right in.

We were travelling on Vyanna's birthday, so I didn't have a chance to post anything. But we did stop at a gas station and buy a sorry looking piece of chocolate cake that was wrapped in plastic wrap. Vy took one little bite (lick) and that was all she was willing to subject herself to. She must have thought that it didn't measure up well to the birthday cakes she has seen me make the other kids. But I haven't made either one of their first birthday cakes - their Grandma Warkentin has done that. So to keep with tradition, she will make one for Vyanna when we celebrate her birthday here next weekend.

Vy got to spend her whole day in the van in a carseat. But she was a trooper. She did get frustrated, but we all do at the end of the second full day in a vehicle travelling back from Indiana. Easton sang Happy Birthday all day, whenever he remembered. And Cassia told the waitress at the restaurant where we ate lunch that it was Vyanna's birthday. They, all three, walked hand-in-hand through a gas station on one of our stops which melted my heart.