From G's First Birthday

Last week G turned 1. She is growing into quite the little girl. Tall and lean and on the verge of walking, determination is her strong-suit. If she has her eye on something, she doesn't let anything get in her way - and has been found stuck under furniture as a result! We had a small party with family a close friends, and of course, we had cake. The last shot is a video so if you're reading this in Facebook be sure to click over to the blog.

G wasn't quite sure what to make of the presents, but this bag has fun fairies on it.

New toys to explore...


Daddy helped her with her cake:


Do you want some?
From the time she found them, G was fixated on the pink and brown polka-dot pajamas. She was perfectly happy wearing them as a bib and hat.

And she even shared her cake (click for video).

And for all my cousins who wanted Grandma Foy's Chocolate Cake Recipe, click here.

Baby Steps

Amidst a fair amount of chaos this past weekend my niece decided to share one of her firsts with me (and Emrys and her mom). For her birthday she got a walker type toy and spent Sunday night zooming around the house. She was all over the place. They have a lot of open space so she can’t toddle from one piece of furniture to another or anything so she’s a champion scooter but hadn’t made it too far on her little two feet yet.

And Then… on Monday night we were playing with her and realized that she was standing all by her self, closely examining a piece of paper. So my sister in law scooted back and gave here the “come here”. And a step later, she was there! So Lara and I were all excited and made her do it again before she realized what was going on. That time she got up to four steps. She’s going to be all over the place before we know it!

After the first steps she got to eat icecream with Uncle Emrys which was a treat since she'd been pretty "mommy clingy" most of the day.

I’m the proud aunt and really happy to live within driving distance of the little munchkin!

~sjt