Outside

Playing outside with Lenora today! It was 82 degrees and the perfect weather for sprinkler/pool. She loves it outside and the poor little girl is just beside herself when it rains, she’ll sit and cry by the sliding door.

She did some swimming, picked some flowers, screamed at the kids in the neighbor’s yard, and barked back at the dogs. It was a good day!  

My Little Helper

Lenora has always been such a great little helper, as you can see from the photos. She recently started helping unroll all the toilet paper but I have yet to catch that on camera. She likes to throw everything in the bathtub because when we are getting ready for a bath I let her throw in her ducky’s, her wash cloth, and her soap, but if I’m not paying attention she’ll also throw in the clothes she just took off, her diaper, the toilet paper and whatever else is in arms reach. Today she was supposed to be helping me with folding the laundry (bottom two pictures) but instead she was doing barrel rolls all over the piles and wiping her snotty nose on all the clothes, which was my fault because she watched me smell one of the towels so naturally she had to as well.  I love her lots, even though she makes a bigger mess for mommy to clean up. I know I could stop her before the mess gets to out of control, but she's generally having fun and I don't like to disturb her. How can you resist that sweet face staring at you while doing a hand stand!

  

Lenora's First Birthday

So FINALLY after almost a month I am sitting down to write about Lenora's first birthday. I've literally had no time to just sit here at the computer. Her party turned out better than I could have imagined. The chicken that I had been simmering all day in the crock pot for tacos was the best thing I've ever eaten, and the cake was too good to be true (especially her adorable little smash cake), the cake lady really out did herself.  It was a wonderful evening of good food, great company, and Lenora got to play with her friends! 

Here are some photos and a video from her party. Our camera was acting awful and it wouldn’t let us use the flash so all the pictures turned out grainy or blurry (very bad lighting). We did managed to get some good ones though, but it's so sad.

  

Sharing with Grandpa

Trying to wash the cake out of her hair.

Happy Birthday from Red Robin

Today Lenora turned 1! Since Mart had today off we took her to Red Robin for lunch. She had so much fun saying “HI” to anyone who would listen, and eating her Chicken on a stick.  When we were all finished the staff brought Lenora an ice cream sundae and sang her a Happy Birthday song. She stuck her fingers in the whip cream, and I gave her 2 small bites of the ice cream, then out of nowhere she projectile puked onto the table! Luckily it was a quick puke that didn’t get onto her face or clothes (just the table, it went far, kind of funny, I've never seen anything like it. ) so we threw some napkins over it and no one saw.  The puking didn’t even faze her, and she went about like nothing happened. She had too full of a tummy and too much excitement.

Walking

Lenora finally started walking on January 29th, 2012. To my surprise she just got up one day and took a step, although she still prefers to walk on her knees. She gets so excited when she walks that she ends up falling. She doesn’t do much crawling anymore. No matter, I am still proud of her. She made it before the 1 year mark which is tomorrow!!

SNOW!

Lenora’s first experience in the snow!

She loved it.

Planning Lenora's 1st Birthday

I can’t believe it’s that time already…FIRST BIRTHDAY! Well since party planning is one of my favorite things to do, planning small party for Lenora just wouldn’t be possible; so we decided to not throw her one at all and to just do a dinner with family and a few friends. Works for me. Especially since Lenora won’t remember it. We’ll save the theatrics and streamers for her 2^nd or 3^rd birthday; I’m thinking Mad Hatter Tea Party!  Anyway, so I decided to do some DIY invites. I went with a BRIGHT colored theme since Lenora is a silly goofball! 

To top it all off I found this perfect shirt for her at Fred Meyer today, and it was 50% off, SCORE! I also made her a hair pretty to match.