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.

Christmas Photos

My Little Helper

Look at my little helper. I was in the middle of hanging up laundry when I ran out of hangers and had to run to the bedroom for some more hangers. When I returned there she was; my little helper pulling the clothes out of the dryer for me. She was so excited when she saw me. Almost as if to say "LOOK MOM!!! I'M HELPING!!!!" I can't believe all of the things she can do anymore I forget she is my shadow most of the time crawling around after me wherever I go. She is learning so quick.

Catching up

I am soooooo sorry I have not posted much on the blog in a looooong time. Mommy got sick with Pneumonia the middle of October and I am still fighting with it. I hope I get over this very very soon.

Oh my goodness how she has changed. Our little princess is crawling and into everything and all over the place. You can't hold her anymore and cuddle because she has more important things to do. Dang it!!! Mommy really misses her cuddle time. She will hardly slow down to eat her bottle and nap times are almost always a fight. Due to Mommies illness however, we have brought Anora into the family bed and we all seem to sleep the best there for now. Good thing we have a King size bed. Mommy, Daddy, Anora, Payton and Marshall all sleep there now. The boys are both so very good with her. They will lick her top to bottom if they get the chance and they tiptoe around her in the bed, it is so cute.

Anora's new found freedom has caught Mommy and Daddy off guard and I am not sure that we were ready for all the things she gets into that she shouldn't and all the stuff we needed to protect her from. That seems to be a fluid situation as she continues to explore her abilities and her environment. She is cruising along the sofa now and able to stand on her own for a few seconds at a time. It really won't be long before she is walking. She has already suffered many bruises and bumps and I am sure there are many more to come.

I miss my little snuggle bunny. Please Anora can Mommy just have the first bottle of the morning snuggle? I love that time with the 2 of us cuddled all together all nice and toasty with the sleep cobwebs just beginning to clear. Can you give that to Mommy at least for a few more months?

Fall / 9 month Pictures