My niece, Alexis, turns 9 today. NINE!

She was the first “baby” in the family and the start of the “granddaughter train.” I have boxes and boxes of pictures of her back before I had a digital camera. We lived in San Francisco when she was born so when I got to see her…I took lots of photos. Imagine if I had a digital back then…we’d be pushing 100,000 photos right now!

This is one of my all-time favorites of her out by the bay… (not a very good scan…but you get the idea!)

Crazy curls, cute pigtails, cheezy grin – Addie reminds me of Lexer so much when she was young!

Hmmm…maybe it is the first names starting with A’s, or the birthdays in September?

Whatever it is, I hope that Ad follows in your footsteps in many other ways, too, Lexer. And we all hope you have a great birthday and a fantastic year!

Happy Birthday! We love you.