1 year birthday party

This is so 6 months ago but I had to document it so we are going to try and play catch up.  I just wanted to post about our baby turning 1.  She is so full of energy and extremely curious.  She is full of spunk and has a great sense of humor.  We all love and adore her and can't imagine one day with out her.  We had a Party for her at Chuck e Cheeses because sometimes it is easier to go somewhere else and let someone else take care of the mess.  She loved the singing and dancing Characters made out of plastic.  It was nice to have family come to celebrate this special day with us.  We tried something different and ordered sandwiches as well as pizza but we were surprised by how small the sandwiches were.  All in all though it was a fun day and a great memory.

 Here is her cake.  I did cupcakes and we had 3 different flavors.  There was chocolate with chocolate cream cheese frosting, banana with plain cream cheese frosting, and white with raspberry cream cheese frosting. 

 Great family and socializing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Eating her cake

 Opening presents

 Cute cousin drew this picture for her.

 Saying Thank you

 Some pictures of this cutie!

Pulling self up to stand around 9 months

I was a lame mom and didn't get her learning to crawl.  She did learn to army crawl around 7 1/2 months.  Then around 8 1/2 months she started really crawling and pulling herself up to stand about the same time.  Here she is at 9 months holding onto a chair.

7 months old

 7 months old and the cutest personality. 

Photo Montage of Our Baby

 Here is a montage of our baby.  Since I had so much to catch up on I figured doing one post would be better.

1 day old

 1 1/2 weeks old

 1 month old

 2 months old

 3 months old

 4 months old

 5 months old

5 3/4 months

 6 months old

6 years old

 So our oldest is 6 years old.  Here are a few pictures from her birthday a little over a month ago and some pictures that I thought were cute of her.

 Here she is 3 months old

 Here she is now.  Man she has grown up and is as beautiful as ever.

 So for her birthday we met Grandma and Grandpa for lunch and to go bowling.  Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for such a fun day.  She had so much fun.  Our son however did not like bowling so much.  I think he was a little overstimulated and not sure of the new experience.

 After using the kid ramp for the bowling ball a few times she chose to throw it on her own.  She also bowled for her brother.  Ironically she got the exact same score for both and came ahead of her Mommy and Grandma.

 Our son liked hiding here and even found a drawer and tried to hide his bowling shoes in the drawer so he couldn't bowl.

 So proud of herself.

 Me and our baby.

 And the wind up......

 I got a picture with him smiling.  Of coarse 2 seconds after taking this picture he was upset at me for taking his picture.

 I am impressed with my husbands way of getting speed and gently setting the ball in the lane with little noise.  When I throw the ball no matter how much I try it always makes a sound that says I am not experienced in bowling.

 Grandpa is a serious bowler.

 My son saw the dog and ran up and hugged him.  He was happy to see the dog even if he was not happy to bowl.

 She wanted to hug him but when she got up there she turned as if to sit in his lap.

 Our baby and her Grandparents.

 She wanted a Barbie Ice Cream Birthday Cake all year since she saw a picture of it once at DQ.  When we got there they had nothing Barbie.  So we bought the cake and had them write Happy Birthday on it and then went to Target and got a small Barbie to put on top.  Since we don't buy presents on Birthdays we will gladly do this for them.  In our house Birthdays are all about the experience and time as a family.  I tried to talk her into a cake that I could make at home but this is what she wanted more than anything.  After all you kill two birds with one stone this way.  Ice cream and Cake in One.

 The Birthday Girl Picture.

Here she is a month before her birthday.  She loves to be Pretty.  I love the innocence and happiness in her face.  I hope to raise her to always be confident and feel loved and safe.

 We built a sled hill which she looked forward to all year.  This is just a couple nights before her birthday and since there was no school the next day we let them play for a little bit.