My Little Helper

Anora has begun the helper stage and I must say I am loving it. Everyday when I come home she picks my shoes up from wherever Mommy decides to take them off and puts them in my shoe pile. Anyone who knows me, knows I always have a shoe pile going underneath my coffe table. Well unfortunately my "Tinker" must have cuahgt onto my bad habit and has realized that this is where the shoes go. She has also begun wiping her own face after meals. If you give her a wet papertowel and say wipe your mouth she does just that. Then when she is done she proceeds directly to the trash can opens it, and drops it right in. Which brings up the fact that the trash can is a locking trash can which she has figured out how to work and because of which we turn it towards the wall so that she can't open it (quite so readily). So it is really funny to watch; she has to go over to the trash can, turn it around, unlock it and then finally open it to throw away the papertowel. The other day when I came home for lunch I had an empty soda bottle in my hand and she was looking and pointing and whining so I gave it to her thinking she wanted it to play with and she went right over and proceeded with her throw it away routine. It was a proud moment for me. I had not even asked her to throw it away. She amazes me and her Daddy every single day with how much she understands. I am not saying she is a baby genius or anything, it is just that when they aren't yet able to vocalize all that they understand and suddenly they show you that they are understanding what you are saying and you had no expectation of that it is one of those wow memnts; for me anyway.

Anora LOVES to feed Marshall

looks black but they play!

Easter 2010

I love the bunny ear ponies I gave her.

Ravioli Yum Yum

I think she loved it. What do you think?

First Birthday

Anora's First Birthday was a hit. Everything was decorated befitting a Princess. Her cake was so beautiful. Really almost to pretty to cut. I don't know how I will ever top it. I think it will always be my favorite.Here she is in her beautiful feathery tutu dress. This drove Daddy crazy....but since she is the princess he still carried her everywhere since she couldn't walk in it all the great.

And her high chair. Oh look more feathers. I had the hat made special for the day. It says Happy 1st Birthday Anora. Oh yeah and it had feathers too. Tehehe daddy was in such a frenzy that day.

She dug right into her cake just as soon as I set it on her tray. I was so proud of her. She didn't get too messy though. We just wiped her off with a paper towel and then gave her a quick bath with wipes and she was good to go.

OMG she is SOOO friggin cute. This is her playing after she opened all of her gifts. She is no longer wearing the feather dress so Daddy did a little victory dance when I said she didn't have to put it back on after she finished her cake. We just left her in the slip part of the dress which was also very pretty. It was a little easier for her to walk in but she still had a hard time of it every now and again.

Anora sitting on her new toy box ahhm I mean throne. It was a gift from Mommy, Daddy and the Hinkle's. Thanks to everyone who was able to join and help us celebrate this special day. For those of you who were unable to make it because of the weather or other reasons please know that you were very missed and we hope to see you again soon.

And on another note.....
Thank you so very very much to Tammy for all of your help and inspiration. I could not have pulled this together without you. Really you are my rock and I appreciate you and your family more than you can ever know. I had so much fun doing this with you we really should think about going into business.

First Birthday Coming Right Up

I have been busy planning Anora's 1st birthday party since Christmas. So as usual I have fallen behind on my blog. I am so excited for her party, Tammy has been such a big help with everything. I love that she is just as excited as I am. She has had so much fun picking things up here and there and spending her wee hours of the night searching the internet for "inspiration" It is coming together quite nicely I think and I hope that the Princess enjoys the party half as much as we have enjoyed planning it. I am hoping for good weather so that everyone can come and enjoy the festivities with us. I wanted to give a little teaser for my followers. Some of you have already seen this but below is a picture of the dress I ordered for her to wear.

Tehehe, isn't it just fabulous!!! Who wouldn't feel like a Princess in this dress.

Long time no blog

Oh my goodness where to start.... I am sorry I have not been as faithful to my blog as I have to my facebook recently. Anora has just been on a whirlwind. She started talking before Christmas. He first word besides "Mama" and "Dada" was "pretty". Grandma kept showing Anora the Christmas tree and saying pretty tree and eventually she started whispering "pretty" and pointing at the tree. Really it sounded like "pt" which was probably her saying pretty tree but we wanted to believe she was far more advanced and decided she was saying pretty. Her next word sounded something like the neighbor boys name "Reed" so that is what we went with. Now of course we had to have her combine the 2 words so now she says "pretty Reed". She started walking on the long weekend for Christmas and she is now almost at a run. She has also learned the words "Bee Bee" for the oldest neighbor girl (Kimberlee). I guess Elizabeth is a bit of a mouth full; we will have to work on that. Oh yeah and when she says "Hi" she opens up really big and say "hiiii". It is just too darn cute. She waves hi and bye. She loves music and will dance to anything. She has just started bobbing her head back and forth when she is really happy. When she is walking and humming to herself she waves her arms from front to back. Really I could go on and on but I think I will let the pictures speak for themselves as too just how darn cute she is.