.: February 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

First Steps and sounds video

I forgot to post this when Lyla started walking, but wanted to have it on the blog for future reminiscing.

This didn't make it on the last video but was part of the cute faces she makes

29 in (56%)

Usually walks more than crawls and can get across the room without falling
Off baby food, eats just about anything we do
Loves fruit, hates carrots
Electronics are her favorite toy
5 teeth
Makes a ton of silly noises and faces
Loves to clap
No words, besides dada and mama, sometimes, but babbles a lot, and loud
Waves goodbye, if shes in a good mood
Knows how to open cupboards and drawers
Can crawl up stairs
Loves dogs and kids
Looks at books all the time
Has about 100 different expressions and a huge fun, independent personality

Next goal: No binkie or bottle by may (usually gets one bottle a day, no big deal, no binkie for naps is going to be a whole different battle)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

ONE YEAR!

It's true, we made it through the first year alive, and Lyla Mae turned one yesterday at 6:11pm. It has been a great and amazing year and we have just loved watching this little girl grow up and turn into our little toddler who is walking around now like a pro.

Cake Sequence:

Gets the cake! Super blurry from not turning on the flash first...oops

Tries a little bite...

Tries one more little bite...

Then decides to go all in, both hands and dig in. (this picture doesnt even do it justice, she was really goin at it and having so much fun squishing the cake and throwing it around)

Soo yummy

Briefly stops eating to give a cute face

Making sure she gets it all

Makes sure to get every piece and decided to lick the plate

All done..ready for a bath!

Made the birthday banner, turned out pretty good and excited to use it in the future too

The cake for everyone but Lyla. I had a lot of firsts with this cake. I made two different ones, lemon with lemon filling and chocolate with raspberry filling. I had never made a double decker, either of the fillings, or buttercream frosting before, but all turned out pretty well and I had so much fun making it. I used some cake "tattoos" to spice it up

Lyla's very own cake

Everyone who came and celebrated! So much fun

Opened a few presents, she has been wanting to play with this all week

Got some cool things from gma and gpa green

Then we had a dance party for a little while. It was a great day, we had a lot of fun and pretty sure Lyla did too!

Weekend Getaway to CO

Josh was in a competition called Moot Court and went off to San Fran to compete this past weekend so Gma R couldn't stand for us to be alone and quickly made arrangements to have us visit. We had a great weekend, she bonded with Louie and had a couple of "firsts"

First time trying to plunge over death-defying heights

First time playing mozart on a piano, she loved it

First booster seat experience, no high chair tray, made it much easier to scoot things off the table onto the floor

She also met her best friend: Louie

Can you tell how much he loves her?!

She shared her food

But also tortured Louie by not sharing ALL the time

Louie even got some snuggles

They begged for food together

Even tore up the tissues together

Best Buds

Since it was only a week before her birthday she got to open an early present from gma

Went on a walk after church, it was a little sunny

Also, Josh got 3rd place in the region, we were so proud of him. Only first goes on to nationals, but secretly we were a little happy it wasnt first because it has been taking a LOT of his time, energy, and thoughts the past few months!

Head Start

The past month or so I have started taking Lyla to Early Head Start. Our friends take their girls there and have been trying to get me to come for awhile now, and I finally decided that I should, and Lyla has loved it! She loves playing with the other kids and especially when they sing at the end. Its just once a week for 2 hours but its a nice break from the norm of playing at home.