My baby is growing up. Here’s Laurel in the spotlight at 9 months old.

And now here’s Laurel in the spotlight at just shy of 4 years old.

I don’t need to tell you how much she fell in love with her dance class yesterday.

She was all smiles, all day almost all day. Well, truth be told, we did have one teensy, tiny, slightly dramatic, emotional meltdown. Or two.

Such is life with girls.