Party Time

Farm themed cupcakes

Cupcake tree with a variety of cupcakes.

Singing with unlit candle

Not too sure about this whole cake thing.

This candle is fun to play with.

Candle and cupcake overboard!

Chalk with Aunt Leslie.

Wow! Look at all these presents!

Fiona had a wonderful birthday party. The weather was beautiful and lots of friends and family came to help us celebrate. She was an angel baby, loving all the attention. As I thought, she didn't care much for the cake. She kept trying to pick the icing off the plate and drop it over the side of her high chair!


Time for me to go put a tired baby to bed.

Birthday Girl

What a difference a year makes. It's hard to believe Fiona's one already. It's gone incredibly fast. She's such a joy and blessing. She loves to look at books (surprising with two librarians as parents!), is walking, loves to be outdoors, loves music, dogs (she's starting to bark when she hears them), gives kisses, likes to do downward dog and look through her legs, and more. Now if only she'd start sleeping through the night. Luckily she's so darn cute I can't get too upset when she wakes me up to eat (even when it's only been an hour). I know I'll miss those special moments when they're gone.

P.S. Thanks to Kenton, Emily and Gabby for the beautiful dress. It fits perfectly and she looks so cute in it.

Photos

St. Patrick's Day jail bird.

Mom, these lids are tasty. Why don't you let me eat them more often?

Easter morning

Easter dress

Fiona with her Easter basket from her Godparents.

She loved the grass (as well as the book and toys!).

Her newest "trick". She likes to throw herself backwards onto the ottoman or sofa or us. She's a weirdo! My mom made the outfit. The pants are supposed to be capris, but as you can see, they fall down to her ankles. This is great as it means she should be able to wear it all summer without out growing them. I love the fishy fabric. Very summery!

She LOVES to help us read the newspaper or go through the coupons. She's become known as Hurricane Fiona because our house always looks like one has gone through it.

She loves to be outside. Luckily she'll stay on the blanket so I can actually get some yard work done while she's awake.

Megan's graduation from the University of Indianapolis.

In other news, today she took the most steps ever...7! She did it more than once, too. She walked from her gate to the ottoman and from the ottoman towards the front door before she fell. She also walked from the refrigerator to a chair in the dining room. Yeah! It won't be long and she'll be cruising around the house.

My baby is growing up way too fast. I don't know where this past year went!

Time Flies

A lot has happened since our last post. First she got bronchitis. Her cough scared me to death. I literally thought she would choke to death. Thank goodness for antibiotics which got it cleared up. She still coughed for a while but it wasn't the awful wet gasping cough which had us going to Urgent Care. This meant a few nights of very bad sleep for all of us. Once she was done with the bronchitis her top two teeth started coming in, which meant more bad sleep. Things are finally getting back to "normal" (just in time for more teeth to come through, I'm sure).

Fiona is growing by leaps and bounds. She's trying so very hard to walk and even took a few steps last night. She's been walking around the furniture for weeks and loves to hold onto our fingers and walk around outside. She also will pull herself up and walk down the hallway holding onto the wall with one hand for balance. Now she gets momentum going while walking along the furniture and then lets go and walks a few lurching, lunging steps before crashing to the floor. It won't be long before she's truly walking.

She loves to be outside. With the rain the last few days she has not been happy cooped up inside. She doesn't yet understand how wet it is out there!

She loves to read her books and will sit on the floor for a good 20 minutes looking at them. You couldn't tell she's the child of two librarians!

In other news, Jeff got a new job and will be starting it on June 1st. He will be working for IVCi, a NY-based video conferencing company. One of their clients, Wellpoint, is in Indianapolis and Jeff will be working there monitoring their video conferencing stuff. We're all thrilled with this new opportunity for him. It will be a change for all of us since it won't be as flexible in the hours (no more coming home early or going in late when I have something going on at work), but we'll manage. It's worth it!

Will post pictures once blogger decides to cooperate.