Grandbaby Nia is one year today!

One year ago this very day, our youngest grandchild was born. She is Nia Madelynn, and she is very precious!
Nia lives very far away from Grand Rapids, and we are sorry that we can't see her more often. The week after she was born, Grandpa Jones and I drove down to Texas to visit all of our families there. Our first stop was Houston to meet Nia! We loved seeing her as a newborn ~ so beautiful! And then her whole family came home to Michigan for Christmas last year, so we got to see her when she was four months old. The holidays are always crazy busy with lots of family activities and we got to see Nia on several different occasions. This past spring, we drove back down to Texas to do the entire circuit and got to hang around Houston with Nia and her family for several days. We had so much fun! And then we saw her again on July 4 when she was in town with her mom and big brother for a short vacation. These next pictures of this darling baby were taken then!

Nia has the bluest eyes, chubby little cheeks, wonderfully baby-fat legs, and a sweet little personality! I was shopping for her at my favorite toy store and they offered to gift wrap the items I had picked out ... and they did a beautiful job wrapping ...

We sent Nia three Melissa & Doug wooden puzzles ~ you know, the kind with the little handles on the puzzle pieces so that chubby baby hands can pick out the pieces and chew on them without doing much damage. My favorite puzzle, though, was one where the pieces did not come out at all ~ instead, they were on little tracks on the board that could move in and out of the correct spaces! I also picked out a special pink chiffon bow for her hair that had a sparkly princess crown with her name written on it ... for when she grows enough hair to wear it! We're going back to Texas for a few weeks in October to see everyone again ... this time, we'll see baby Nia in San Antonio!