The keys to happiness are a bottle and a blanket...

I can smile even without my "lambie"...

I've got my "lambie", but I want that camera, too!

Here I demonstrate my fickle tastes...

...and just as quickly as I was fussy, I am happy again...

Let's stand up and see Mommy!

You may not be able to understand my talk, but I sure do get excited about what I have to say!

Nicole, in one of her more pensive moments...

Nicole in a new dress...

Nicole playing with one of her toys on Valentine's Day...

Nicole playing with the balls from the same toy. Check out her Valentine's Day shirt!

Moving on to the next toy!

Nicole at her day care center on her birthday. Hey, birthday girls aren't supposed to cry!

A very upset Nicole (on her birthday), at day care...

Poor baby...

It looks Nicole is having a rough day!

OK. The bottle makes it all better. BTW, less than a month after this picture was taken, Nicole doesn't use bottles anymore.

Things are getting better...

Jessica, Nicole, Lambie (my precious), and Grandma Potter. Forgive the Gollum reference.

Jessica, Nicole, Lambie, Grandma Potter, Aunt Sarah, Bridgette, and Wesley

People playing at Nicole's Birthday Party (Nicole and Lambie are the white spec in the background)

Grandpa Renner, Aunt Alli, Nicole, Tracie Rule, Skylar Rule, and Aunt Sarah

Mommy gets the cake (obscured here) ready while Nicole waits (not so patiently) on Aunt Alli's knees.

Getting the candle ready for the cake...

Hey, don't double-dip the candle, Mommy!

Fire! Heh, heh, heh! Fire! (Forgive the Beavis reference)

The candle is out now...Can I have my cake yet?

...and the cake smashing/eating begins!

Nicole regrouping from the first smash!

...and starting the second smash!

Now, Nicole is getting into it! She has one hand buried in that cake!

Fists full of cake!

Nicole grabbing all the cake she can, to shove in her mouth!

See, Nicole does stop smashing every now and then to eat!

Cake in the hand, cake on the face...

Aunt Alli is trying to put down the very messy niece before Aunt Alli gets messy too!

Tell me that's not a look of content! What a birthday party!

Why am I standing? I want to dive in the cake again!

Aunt Alli, let me shove my face in the cake again!

Pausing to ham it up for the cameraman!

Nicole and her cake again...

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?

Nicole and Uncle Daniel at Covenant Presbyterian Church's annual mission trip festival/fund-raiser...

A passed-out Nicole in her Uncle Daniel's lap...