Party Party Party

We had a little celebration for Lily's birthday last weekend and it was so much fun.  We kept it simple and had family and friends over to play.  I know that Lily had a blast!  On Sunday Lily's friend Dylan had his birthday party so we went and enjoyed the spray ground at Brookhaven.  Phil played with Lily almost the entire time and I got to hang back and get some pictures.

The cake pictures were taken by my sweet friend Jennifer

Lily & Braxton

This girl LOVES dogs.  So cute.

Tutu Cute

Happy Birthday Lily!

My sweet, precious, fluffy haired, light up the room Lily. One year old. Where did the time go? I wonder how many hours I spent holding you. How many minutes I spent watching your sweet face after you fell asleep. How many smiles you have flashed and how many smiles you've brought to our faces. My little energetic, full of drama, giver of kisses and bites on the shoulder. There isn't a box big enough to hold our love for you. Sometimes it makes my heart ache to think about. You are a wild one, an explorer, have yet to meet a stranger. You love your dada to the moon and back and he loves you fiercely. His most favorite thing to do in the whole wide world is to show you off, to carry you around for all to see. He might as well wear a sign on his back that says "This is my baby, my blessing, my precious treasure" because it is obvious that is how he feels. We are so blessed to be your parents. To wake up to your sweet face, your big blue eyes, your cotton hair, your sweet clean baby smell. I love to watch you discover the world all around you, to listen to your belly laugh and your baby babble. I am so thankful that I get to spend my days with you. Some days are challenging. Some days you are a teething mess and you refuse to nap and you make messes faster than I can clean them up. But your babyhood is fleeting and I'm thankful for all the days both good and bad. One year, gone by in a flash, a blink. 365 days of being your mama and loving you. My little ray of sunshine. I love you so much! xoxo

Dog Days of Summer

Thimba has had his share of trips to the dog park and the school by our house lately. He loves to play with his favorite friend Frieda, and Lily loves to watch the dogs. She will shriek and point and reach out to them. I'm so glad she is an animal lover already.

Pig and Paci

Lily was never too interested in a pacifier when she was a little baby, but I randomly gave her one when she was teething recently, and she's decided that she likes it. I don't want her to get too attached to it and have to break the habit one day, but for now if she is cranky in the car or is awake when I put her down at night, the paci keeps her happy and she'll go right down with. She has also started snuggling with her pig. When we found out we were having a girl we went out and did some shopping that day. Phil found pig at Gap and decided we needed a $22 stuffed animal for her, so that's how he came to live in our house. Lily has really taken to him, and it is pretty cute. If you give her pig she will give him a big hug and snuggle him. Can you tell we are both finance/accounting geeks that lack creativity? Sometimes we call him Mr. Pig. Maybe she will want to name him one day? We had a fun little pajama play date this week, and that's where these pictures were taken.

We have a walker!

I'm a little behind, as always, but Lily started walking on July 29th! She had been so close for a couple of weeks and would take a step or two between things but always with the intention of catching herself on whatever object she was going towards. Then one morning she just took off. She still prefers crawling, and she seems to prefer walking on carpet which we don't have in abundance in our house, but it is pretty cute to see her go. She has to do everything at full speed and her version of walking is borderline running most of the time.

I took her to the school by our house the other day to see if she would want to walk in the grass but most of the time she wanted to play with her stroller. I tried to move it away but she threw a fit and the crocodile tears started up.