What a Year!

This was Queenie a year ago:

This was Queenie on her birthday:

Getting her new present, which is an awesome candy apple red piano. Q loves music. She’s such a rock star. Drums, guitars, music boxes, pianos, maracas, this cool, jazzy music-making play table from LeapFrog — if it makes music, she’s in. She sings, she dances, and she claps along.

In light of that, we had a music themed party for her:

I made those cupcakes myself. Which means Q also learned the joys of beater-licking when it came to mama’s homemade cream cheese frosting:

Why yes, she is wearing a ghost shirt with space explorer pants. Because my baby is going to be a total SFF nut, if I have anything to do with it.

(She actually owns three entirely different sets of space explorer pajamas, though only two of them glow in the dark. Priorities, people.)

Wow, guys. A year. How in the world did that tiny little thing get from there to here? Oh, right, I remember: