Zara turned one on the 16th of January, it honestly feels like her first year of life just went by in a busy blur. She has brought so much love and happiness into our family. The older children all adore their baby sister and she always manages to put a smile on their faces - even when they are mad or grumpy. Zara finally started sleeping through the night towards the end of 2016 which was a huge blessing. It was a long year of sleepless nights for me - longer than any of my previous babies who were sleeping through much earlier. Apart from the sleep though, Zara has been an absolute joy. We couldn't imagine our family without her in it. The big kids had so much fun wrapping Zara's presents and helping her unwrap them on her birthday. Zara loved all the attention.
Zara loves other babies and formed quite an attachment to Gideon Lekias! She barely let him out of her sight and was obsessed with trying to cuddle and kiss him. It was an easy choice to buy her some "baby" dolls, Zara was thrilled!
We were still in the midst of unpacking our house at this stage and Zara didn't end up with the standard number one cake like the other kids (Grandma usually makes it for them too!). Zara ended up with a giant cupcake cake instead...the girls chose the roses to decorate it with.
Zara enjoyed her piece of birthday cake and loved everyone singing to her. We just adore our Zara Maxine...she's growing up too quickly.
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