Ria is FIVE!

CAUTION: extreme doting on the birthday girl in this post!

Victoria Dawn Marie Gollihugh was born right around the time of this posting FIVE YEARS ago!

Ria with me while we were still in hospital.
My tiniest baby yet at 8.4 pounds!!

Newborn Ria with her Daddy (on the left).
My brother and his first child (on the right).

Just a couple days or weeks old and already sporting her signature mohawk!



3 months old. Smiling at her Mimi!



6 months old in her Metallica onsie.
Actually purchased more for Daddy than baby!

6 months old.



Doesn't it look like she's touchin' up her hair here!
Such a prima - even since way back then. :)
She's only 8 months old.

8 months old.
Practicing her stage walk.
No, just being sweet Ria!



15-16 months old.
Wearing her baby!
This is before she saw a sib in my sling.
I think she remembered being IN it herself!

15-16 months old.
She's nursing her baby.
Once again, no observation of another sibling.
Of course, she was still nursing at this time.

Wearin' Daddy's fishin' hat.
And a cheesy grin!

15-16 months old.
Her hair was pulled back into one of her first pony tails.



19 months old here.
Her first costume for her first "aware" Halloween.
She did NOT like it. We didn't torment her beyond these pictures.
I just wanted to have proof that we did try to help her enjoy that
holiday (in case she might have some issues with us a teenager)!



2 years + 1 month old here (Mama was preggie with Kat).
Ria is checking her baby's heart beat.



3 years old.
Ria and Kat. (Kat about 8 months old.)

Ria at 3!



Ria feelin' shy after being surprised at her surprise 4th birthday party.

Ria at 4 at her surprise tea party!

There will be another post with more pictures of Ria 'a la now'! ^_^ Check back for the update. Hopefully soon, but today I have Enrichment at 6:30pm and we have to drive Daddy to work, get to Enrichment, and then pick him up when he's done. Busy, busy, busy! I'll try, though.