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Happy Birthday to the sweetest, most dear thing on the planet, my little Seville!

Birthday flowers from Uncle Bryce.
I put her hair in ponytails for the first time ever. It made me giggle over her cuteness, but made me sad too. It's such a "little girl" thing, which made me see that she is undeniably no longer a baby. I can't believe she's growing up so fast (yeah, no other parent has ever said that before)

Singing the Birthday Song (she actually blew out her own candles. It took her a few tries to get the second one. What does this mean for wishes? Is she hosed?)

Seville does this face now every time you point a camera at her. Oh well.
(hey!... I just realized maybe I should get a camera out every time I need to brush her teeth! there's an idea!)

I made her this blanket for her birthday with my new sewing machine. It's that suuuper sickly soft fuzzy material. I figured she wouldn't let go of it for the next couple of years. She liked lying on it and under it as a plaything until it was time for bed, at which point she promplty rejected all my hard work and loving labor in favor of the old raggety thing from Target that she's had since she was born. Figures.

It's all going so fast, this child thing. I'm lost in amazement, and practically drowning in adoration of her.

I'll post an album of birthday pics soon for the die-hards who want to see it all. Check back.