Birthday post con't.

On Ellie's birthday morning I made her blueberry pancakes.


















She loved them!














Next, we went to the library. Ellie loves books, so this was a perfect place to go on her special day. She ran around the library and we read several books. She enjoyed the kangaroo rocking chair and wanted to pet all the stuffed animals. She grabbed part of the Thomas Train set and rain across the library. She had a great time.
It was such an unusually warm day on her birthday, that I decided to take her to the playground for the first time. She LOVED it!! She ran all over. Up and down the ramps and all around.

She rode in a swing for the first time and it made her laugh and laugh.














She loved to slide down the slide.

I can't believe my baby is 1. It seems like just last week she was born. She has blossomed into such an amazing little girl. Every day I am learning something new about her, and getting a glimpse into who she will be. I am sure this has been the fastest year of my life. I'm excited to see what is coming in the next year!

Long overdue birthday post!

It has been a few weeks since Ellie's birthday and I still haven't blogged about it! We had a great couple of days. We had her party the day before her birthday. We had tons of family at her party. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she had a fun time playing with her cousins. When I got her all ready to smear her cake everywhere, I stripped her to her diaper and put on her bib. I gave her her cake, and she wanted nothing to do with it! We gave her a taste,



















But to no avail...



















We even tried a spoon, but she didn't want anything to do with it! Oh well! We enjoyed it! It was sooo good! She did however, eat some later off her grandma's plate:














Ellie loved all of her presents. She has played with them all a lot! Here she is with her new wagon:














Blogger won't let me upload any more pictures so I will have to put her actual birthday on a separate post.

Happy Birthday, Ellie!

We have had lots of fun the past couple of days celebrating our little girl's first birthday! I will post about the activities later. For now, enjoy these pictures from her first year!

What do you get when you mix the bottom of an oven with an oven mitt??

So...I'm a little accident prone :-) Here is what happened:
The scene opens with Ellie eating happily in her highchair, Tyler...doing something. I go to get something out of the oven and I drop the oven mitt in the oven! Much to my surprise, it bursts into flames!

Me: Tyler! Tyler! Come quick! Fire!!!

Tyler: (comes in and assess the situation, starts rummaging)

Me: What do I do?? (Closes the oven. Realizes that that doesn't cut the air off. Opens the oven back up to an even bigger fire)

Tyler: (Still rummaging)

Me: (Thinking about throwing water in the oven. Realizes that this is not a good idea.) Do I put flour on it?!?!? What are you looking for???

Tyler: The tongs!

Me: (Thinking, "I don't think the salad tongs will work in the situation!" Then realizes he means the grill tongs!) They are right there!

Tyler: (Extracts blazing remnants and tosses them into the sink)

Disaster averted.

Shouldn't oven mitts at least be flame retardant?? This one acted as if it were doused in gasoline! Truth be told, this isn't the first time I have caught an oven mitt on fire. I am thinking of investing in some of those silicone oven mitts :-)

SNOW!!

We finally had a decent snow! I measured between 10 and 11 inches in our yard. The best part about the snow is that Tyler has been working from home the past few days and I haven't had to work in the daytime. It has been SO nice to spend some extra time together. We have really needed it.
We took Ellie outside to see the snow. She wasn't too impressed. It was so funny. She could barely move in her snowsuit, so she just sat stiffly in the snow. She did not look very happy. Needless to say, our outing didn't last long. We ended up coming inside, making hot cocoa, and watching Tyler shovel snow from the window. What a nice week it has been.

Baby Love

Until recently, Ellie has shown no interested in her dolls. But in the past few weeks, they are her favorite toys! It is so cute! She carries them around and kisses them. (With a very open mouth and lots of tongue) :-) One day she sat for 15 minutes and washed her baby with a wipe. Today she has been covering her up with a washcloth. It is just so darn cute! I have taken way too much video in the past few days :-) Here are some pictures of my little mommy:

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!
Wow! What a difference a year can make! This time last year Ellie was still in my belly. Now, I have a WALKING baby! That's right, we have turned a corner...Ellie now walks more than she crawls. Where did my baby go?? It is so amazing how fast this year has gone!
We had a great New year's eve. We played games and Ellie got to play in confetti with her cousins. We came home in time to get Ellie to bed and I fell asleep on the couch. Tyler woke me up at 11:58 to watch the ball drop. We said happy new year and were in bed by 12:06. We are such party animals :-)

Here are some pictures from the evening: