Sunday, April 3, 2011

Birthday girl

So what do you do exactly for a one year old's birthday. It's more for the parents than anyone, because seriously, the baby's not going to remember. So, we decided to make it a fun, layed back day! We did portraits in the morning at Portrait Innovations. Lily did great and we got some really nice poses. Then, we Zoo-ed it! It was fun to watch Matteo run around and Lily is actually able to see a lot of the animals now!


After a quick trip home for a nap, we packed the kids up and did dinner then went to Build a Bear so that Lily could pick something out... ok, so mom could pick something out for her. I think we did a good job adding a bunny to our family. She even has cute flower ear bows and a Happy Birthday shirt so we can remember when we got it! Saturday was our big party. It was just close friends and family and we did pizza and cake. Lily did classic with her cake, getting it all over her face and in her hair. Too cute!

Then it was onto presents, which she got a ton of cute clothes and toys. It was a great way to spend our little girl's birthday!


Saturday, March 26, 2011

Happy Birthday Lily



It's been one year in the making. Our little sweet pea is turning one in a few day. I look back on the year, and it seems to go by so fast, yet living it there were times where things were standing still.






Lily is now her own little person. A drama queen, a momma's girl, a laugher, a cryer, an ok sleeper, a great eater and a little sister who loves playing with her big brother.




She's crawling up on all fours everywhere now, after months of "army" crawling. She's got 5 teeth with one more on the way. She says mama, dada, kinda dogie and will even sign "all done" while she says something that could be taken as the right words.


She's able to walk while holding onto things. She absolutely LOVES to take off everything she can get her hands on when shes in the car, no shoes or hat is safe.


She's a big laugher and the sound is contagious. She loves to laugh at dad and Matteo. She's actually getting to the point that she's "playing" with Matteo, and he does a good job playing with her.

She fulfills all of the cliches, we wouldn't know what we would do without her and I can barely remember a time where she wasn't with us!!


Happy FIRST Birthday Lily!