"Can I get a Happy Meal with extra happy, please?"

Chloe had her first Happy Meal over the weekend. She greatly enjoyed her chicken nuggets and milk. She didn't care for the apple dippers though. They were kinda sour and hard for her to chew.


"Come on mom! Open it! I know there's food in there!"


"OOOOHHH!"

While blogging about Chloe's birthday and birthday party I completely forgot to update her 1 year stats. So I thought I'd throw it in...

Chloe is walking like crazy anywhere and everywhere. She'll rarely crawl unless she just randomly feels like it.

Her favorite thing to do is read books. She likes, Bubbles Bubbles and Dogs the best. At least those are the ones we read the most often.

She still loves music and likes to dance a lot. While it's not a Drop-everything-you're-doing-right-this-second kind of song anymore, the office theme song is still her favorite I'd say.

Her favorite game is peek-a-boo. Although, a lot of the time she misses her eyes and cover's her ears or forehead.

It's hard to tell what her favorite toy is right now because she just got a bunch of new ones, so she's always playing with something different.

She still sleeps on her belly.

She loves, loves, LOVES to eat. Anything with cheese would have to be her favorite, but she won't eat real fruit, except bananas. I don't know why. She just won't.
I'm still breastfeeding as of right now. We're down to the feedings in the morning and right before bed. Today was actually the first time we didn't nurse in the morning. She still favors the right side, but the left side is her snuggling side so she can suck on her fingers, and she loves to snuggle with my hair. It's weird.

Most of her vocabulary still consists of the word she uses for just about everything (da da). However, she does know about 13 words or so that aren't "da da". Mama and dada of course, and uh oh. "ga gom" (all gone), "da!" (down), and shoes is kind of like "sheshz". "ka!" (snack) is very popular as well as "gog" (dog). She getting really good at saying "dang du" (thank you) and "no no no" (does that one really need a caption?). She's started calling a duck "ka ka" (quack quack) probably so she doesn't have to answer the question "What's a duck say?". A couple of recently learned words are "gook" (book) and "ah esh" (the end).
She's also learning her baby signs too. She knows more and please so far.

I think I have a very smart little girl on my hands. She knows where her nose, ears, hair, and toes are. She learned toes and hair from Bubbles Bubbles, a book Aunt Becca gave us. I may just be a bias mom, but I don't care. ;-)

Fun in the.... oh yeah, SUN!

Ok, I know my posts get a little out of order sometimes, but I blog about what's on my mind with our family at the time. The past couple weeks it's been all about Chloe's eye and birthday party and now that those two things are over and done with, it's time to take a few steps back and look at stuff that happened in between those two events...

Back when it wasn't raining everyday, and actually nice outside, we took advantage and had some fun in the.... what is that big, bright, yellow thing in the sky called again? Oh right, right, right! THE SUN!


She liked to play in the grass, but did not like it to stick to her hands. Unfortunately, daddy had just mowed, so sticking grass was a regular occurrence.


She had a horrible time walking in the grass. It probably didn't help that our yard is mostly a hill, but even on the flat part she had a hard time. If we ever get some sunshine we'll have to go out and practice.






My pretty baby.

Alright, I know I'm a mom, and all the other blogging moms I know, did a whole post devoted to their mother's day, but like I said, things have been busy. I sadly don't think I took any pictures on mother's day, but that's ok with me. I got several cards, including a homemade one from Chloe (the best one of all), and Kris got me a wonderful planner that I absolutely LOVE!!! He really is the best husband! I had to work in the nursery that day, so I also got a beautiful daisy! After church we went out to lunch with my parent's and brother to one of my favorite places! It was a good day! :-)

Chloe's Cupcake Party Palooza

May 15, 2010, Chloe had her first birthday party! It was cupcake themed, and so much fun to plan and see play out. I'm so happy with how everything went and the fun that was had by Chloe and her guests.
Ok, what you've all been waiting for... Here are the pictures.

I went all out with the cupcake theme...


Chloe had a cupcake outfit with her cupcake like tutu I made her and a "cherry on top" bow.


I made these cupcake invitations.


Everything was made to resemble a cupcake. Even the room had a ton of streamers draped from the ceiling leading to a "cherry on top" in the center. Think circus tent.


The tables were also decked out in cupcake fashion with pink icing and a cherry on top.


And a cupcake pinata was very fitting, and we had music having to do with sweets, candy, sugar, etc. playing the background.


We had a big, cupcake banner and balloons (sprinkles) everywhere!


Best Friends!









Addie was more interested in Chloe's presents than Chloe was. For the longest time she was walking around trying to get someone to read her the book from the last picture.




"...happy birthday to yooooouuuu!"


All that practicing paid off and she blew out her candle all by herself!


She started out so dainty and lady like about it.


"Whatcha got up there, Chloe?"


There we go, that's more like it.


Blowing a cupcake kiss!


She enjoyed her cake...


Chloe pulled the magic string that let all the candy out!


CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Chloe picking out candy that she won't be able to eat...


What's going to be our yearly tradition of letting party balloons go with a note.


I think she had fun. This is her in the car on the way home after about 30 seconds.

As I said at the beginning, it was a ton of fun to plan her party, but it was stressful too planning a party this big, so I'm happy to say that we'll only be doing big parties like this for the big, milestone birthdays (1, 5, 10, 13, etc.). I hope you all enjoyed the pictures!