My favorite day

There are just too many things I don't want to forget.

 So here are pictures from my favorite day this week: Sunday. 

Me and my baby playing after church
(yes I will call her a baby until I have another one, even though technically she's not. 
SO cliche to say this, but she will ALWAYS be my baby).

Lately Liv has been a naughty little girl. 

She's clingy, and screams a lot, and wants to be held non-stop. For example, she is sitting on my lap on the couch and then screams and points to a toy she wants on the other side of the room. I set her down so she can go get it, and she screams and cries because I set her down and she wants to be held. I have to carry her to her toy so she can pick it while I'm still holding her, and then sit on the ground, still holding her while she plays with it.

As frustrating as that is, every time she goes off to bed all I want to do is wake her back up and play some more. And when B finally gets home I can't wait to tell him all the adorable, funny, smart things she did instead of complaining that she took every ounce of my time.
I went to lunch with some friends from school on Friday, and they asked how hard it is to have a baby (babies are on the mind at UCDH since school is ending so soon). I said it was really hard. Now I wish I could take saying that back. Sometimes I feel like I have to prepare people for all the hard things of having babies, but I think most people know its hard. All you really need to know is that it is sooo worth it. If I could go back I would say, "the good always outweighs the bad". All I can really say is that you just won't understand until you have a child. I thought that I knew becuase I had lots of neices and nephews and I loved them so much, but you love your own children even more. Just think of how bad the bad things sound, and then realize how good the good must be if people keep wanting to have more kids :)
More than anything I feel so bad for Liv because she is in the process of getting all 4 of her molars in at once, and she has an awful diaper rash :( She is usually a good girl, but I still love her even when she's naughty.

This is my favorite picture right now! 

I told Brady that her eyes just look so happy, but I think he hit the nail on the head when he said 

she looks secure in her happiness.

I want that security to be there for her forever. I hope that she is always herself and feels confident and secure in who she is. I can already see so much of her spirit and personality. She is honestly so amazing. She is funny, and spunky, and smart as a whip. She loves to make us laugh (now every time we ask her if she wants to go 'night night' she says, 'no' and waits for us to laugh and then laughs. I know this is a joke because she used to always say yes, and sometimes even ask to go 'night night') and she is so tender and compassionate. She wants to give us kisses all the time (on the cheek, on the hand, on the other cheek) and she wants to give every dog she sees a kiss (whether its a stuffed animal or a dog in a book, on tv, in real life, or on a calendar in the middle of the aisle at Michael's).

16 month stats

-weight: 5th-10th percentile (18 lbs- still no front facing carseat)

-height: 50th percentile (what?)