10.20.2011 Fun

A friend of ours from church gave us this cardboard house for the kids. They have been loving it (and so far have only slightly damaged it...) Leah enjoys playing with the door...and getting inside and pushing it around while she walks. Kinda funny to sit in the family room and watch a house move around 'magically'.
Edgar can fit in there too :) Pretty sure I can't. Well...I could probably fit, but I don't know that I would be able to get out.

And seriously...why don't my kids have pants on? They usually have pants on...

(This is obviously from a different day...because Leah has pants on...)

Leah also enjoys playing with her daddy's running hat.

She thinks she's so funny! (And she's right!)

'Ummmm...Where'd everybody go?!'

Funny that she loves wearing daddy's hat, but I can't keep HER hats on her...guess she's just picky like that.

10.16.2011 A New Park

One day when I was running I noticed a new park about 3/4 mile away from our house. So we had to check it out! It's a really nice park. It has a bunch of musical instruments throughout for the kids to play on.
Not sure Leah liked the swing...Eli did. But he loves any swing.

These little things are always fun.

I think my favorite part about this park is that it is all fenced in. That's SO nice when you've got two kids and one mom :)

Playing in the sand pit. (Not sure a white diaper cover was the best choice...)

This was Eli's favorite spot. He played on this for a very long time.

My happy girl! Who apparently needs a bib...and some 'girl' sneakers. She is wearing an old pair of Eli's...I keep meaning to get her some sneakers...But you know my dislike of shopping...

Some drums to play on.

Most days Eli is just as content to play with a stick :)

We took a little bit of the park home with us :)

We'll be going back often!

Leah's Birthday Party

Apparently I 'needed' a month off from updating my blog. October has pretty much been a blur...BUT we did have some really fun events occur during the month that I will be attempting to post in the next day or two. We'll see, though...

The first big event was my little girl's birthday party!

This was the picture I used for her invitation (thanks Pintrist for the idea!!) My little girl's a bit of a ham, so she smiled pretty :)

Her party was Saturday, October 8, so I stayed up (way too late) on the 7th finishing all her little treats for the party. I think these Oreo pops were my favorite...and not too hard to do.

I was trying to do butterflies and ladybugs for the party...not sure I pulled this color combo off, but oh well. The cookies tasted good :)

Some chocolate covered pretzel ladybugs...

Party supplies

Table decorations

Goodie bags for the guests

Eli trying to sneak a bug.

The gorgeous cake-made by Krista, of course :)

Love those little ladybugs :)

Opening presents.

Getting some snuggles from the newest member of the family :)

Abuela & Abuelo got Leah a little stroller-she loves it!

The blessing that Abuela wrote for Leah. Beautiful.

A tea set from Olivia and Audrey. Olivia wanted to make sure we knew how to use it right away :) Leah loves playing with her tea set! As does Eli... Getting in the party spirit.

Getting ready for cake!! I think she's excited!

"Happy Birthday to you!"

She only had eyes for the cake

BLOW!

Our little family!

Oh so glad to be getting her cake!

I couldn't pick between all of these cake pictures...so enjoy :)

I love how excited she is in this picture...look at her stretching her foot in excitement :)

YUM!

The whole gang!

I think we need to teach our kids to look at the camera...So glad Abuelo could make it!

Edgar's cousin and family came too.

Katie getting some practice holding her cousin :)

After the party, the guys played Dominoes with Abuelo. He's pretty good at Dominoes :)

Leah enjoyed playing with her toys!

The next day she wore her new dress to church...it's a little long on her, but oh so cute :)

A fun day. I still can't believe that a whole year has gone by! She's such a sweet little girl!!

Happy Birthday Leah!

Today is my little girl's first birthday! I can't even believe how fast this year has gone, and how much she has grown. You can take a fun trip down memory lane (I did) by clicking HERE to see a few pictures from her first day here.

Today I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I did a year ago, but I did take a few. Her big celebration is still a week away, but I thought you'd enjoy some pictures from her day today. We had no big plans. It's been a very busy week, so today we planned to stay at home and relax. Aunt Jenny came by with breakfast. (Remember when she did that for Eli? Another trip down memory lane...As a side note, if you did click on that link you'll see a picture of Eli on the news. Leah was also on the news this morning, but I did not think the picture I sent the news had gotten through...because I got an e-mail saying it HADN'T gotten through. I tried 4 times and each time had the e-mail returned to me. So I gave up...and then at 7:50 am there she was on the tv...and I didn't have my camera ready :( I'm pretty sad that I didn't get to record her first tv appearance...) She brought Leah a muffin from Einsteins...I think she was excited to get it :)
Little baby, big muffin :)
Mmmmm! Tasty!
Eli and I got some yummy bagels and I got my favorite coffee in the whole world-Einsteins Vanilla Hazelnut. YUM.
Leah took a little nap at 10:30, then had lunch (tried eggs...she spit them right out. So she had some bread, cheese...and goldfish. This girl could eat her weight in goldfish.


This post would make it appear that all she did today was eat...but she did do more than that...she irritated her brother on several occasions, giggled more often than I can count, 'helped' me load the dishwasher and fold the clothes (her favorite household chores) and pretended to take an afternoon nap while I baked cookies. So after a dinner of spaghetti (another one of her favorites) she got a birthday cookie :)

She was pretty happy with it :)

After some more evening fun, she helped Eli play on his favorite website-starfall.com. They both love to watch daddy navigate his way through that site.

She also did a bit of dancing :)

Oh...and the reason she has no clothes on is that she dumped my entire 32 oz bottle of water on her when I wasn't looking. I think she looks kinda like a sumo wrestler with no clothes on...my little chunker :) (Something tells me she won't like that nickname in a few years)

Leah is such a sweet little girl. She's nearly always happy and smiling. She is SO smart. She has figured out all of her toys, and how to get her way :) She LOVES her daddy, and gets so excited when he gets home. She is saying so many words-every day she'll say something new, or try to. She has started 'parroting' things I say. She loves to say her name, and the word 'stinky'...which is what mommy says when she changes her diaper. She's said the words mommy, daddy, brother, ouch, hi (her first word) yucky, uh-oh, caterpillar (I swear she said it once...) puppy....those are the ones off the top of my head. NOW, these might be words that only mommy can understand, and some of them may have been a fluke, but I'm counting them :)

She started walking a couple of weeks ago, so there's no stopping her now! She can walk from the family room all the way through the kitchen. She is SO proud of herself when she walks, and is completely adorable. It's so funny to see a kid walk when they're that little!

She is such an amazing blessing from God. I can't believe how blessed we are to have such a sweet little girl!!