Our baby turns 1

Tara turned one year old on Jan 28, we can hardly believe a whole year has gone by already and our little baby is a baby no more. She is walking all over, can climb up and down the stairs faster than you can blink your eye. She only crawls if she needs to get somewhere really fast, like snag a toy from one of her sisters. She is finally sleeping through the night so we are really starting to feel like we are leaving the baby stage behind.
We had a little party on Sunday, her Uncle John came from Austin for the weekend to celebrate with her. I think her sisters were way more excited about her Birthday than Tara was and went to store to get balloons and Elmo paper plates and napkins for her party and they bought her some little presents which they told her she had to share, but it was all good fun. Tara did burn her finger on the candle, while we all stood around and watched her do it so I hope we have not instilled a fear of birthday cakes in her for the rest of her life.
On her actual birthday we had planned on going out to a restaurant. Ron and I felt we deserved to celebrate surviving our first year of 3 kids with our sanity still intact, or so we like to believe, but Ciara had some sort of a stomach bug and was not really up to it, so maybe we will try to get out next weekend.