Day 364: November 24 - Hanging with Dad

With Mommy working, the pictures are a little sparce this week. ;-)

Day 363: November 23 - Sleeping beauties

Thanksgiving week, and Daddy and Katie are home chillin' together while Mommy heads off to work. Looks like it was a lazy Monday for everyone in the house.







Day 362: November 22 - A lazy Sunday

Today was definitely a lazy day trying to recover from yesterday's party. We opened all of Katie's gifts, and as always, our friends and family were entirely too generous to us! We are very appreciative of their kindness!




Day 361: November 21 - How to throw a ladybug party!

Katie's first birthday party turned out awesome!! The ladybug invitations were so fun to make. For the party, we decorated in black and red, and even bought candy to match. The ultimate were the Kiss band M&Ms. For party favors, we made ladybug cookies, and the kids were able to decorate them themselves. The littlier kids got a ladybug book to take home.

My friend Marie made the ladybug cake, and it was beyond my wildest expectations. The appetizers were made by Daddy and cousin Christen and were crackers with cheese spread then tomatoes and olives form the ladybug. I'll be starting a tradition with her birthdays where I have a signature mat and all of the party attendees sign it. I think this will be really cool to watch it evolve each year she grows older.

The reason Katie's eyes are all red sitting in front of her cake is because she was NOT a fan of all of the attention being on her while singing Happy Birthday. As soon as everyone started singing, she started sobbing. Poor girl!

A highlight was that while the party was ramping up, Daddy drove to the airport to pick up Grandma A. She's spending the week with us and made it just in time to celebrate Katie's first birthday.

The final touch for her party was the one year slideshow I made. It turned out PERFECT, and I still tear up watching it!








































































































Link to her one year video:

Day 360: November 20 - Num, num, num

Four pictures, three with the same nummy toy to suck on.










Day 359: November 19 - Becoming more self-sufficient

Look at big stuff taking care of chugging her milk herself. Now if she could completely feed herself, clean up after herself, change her own diaper, etc. ;-)





Day 358: November 18 - Puzzle time

This is such a cool invention to entertain children. It's got so much to keep them enthralled while you're waiting around.