Our Beautiful 1 Year Old!

May 5, 2010 at 4:28 p.m. our beautiful baby girl turned 1!

Makenna's new list of information:

-weighs 20 lbs 4 oz (~50%)

-29.5 inches tall (~60%)

-love to: read books, talk, be on the go, and play with her brother

-says lots of words: ma ma, da da, pa pa, ba (ball, balloon), hi, ocassionally we thinks he says Denver, moo

-LOVES animals!  ...and wants to touch them, ...she gets so excited when she sees any kind of animal

-walks every where and is getting pretty fast

-loves her babies

-our little garbage disposal (as long as she's feeling good); her favorite foods are probably pizza, yogurt, grapes, scrambled eggs with cheese, and anything sweet!

-5 teeth (3 on top, 2 on the bottom)

-diagnosed with her first ear infection at her 1 year appointment

-1st stomach flu the Tuesday after Mother's Day (no worries, Denver got it on Mother's Day in the car, after Church....hey, at least he let us get through Church, right?!)

1 year pictures in no special order as blogger did not like me!  Notice the different outfits, backgrounds....she wouldn't cooperate with me.  What a surprise?!  I tried and tried to get that special picture with a smile, but no such luck!

I couldn't resist; our cheesy girl!  She makes us laugh so much!

Look at those eyes!

I LOVE watching them interact!

Circus!

I realized with all of our craziness I forgot to post our pictures from the circus!  I have a wonderful childhood memory of going to the circus with my Grandpa Melvin and Grandma Betty.  Last year Evan and I took Denver (along with our good friends) and I said to Evan that it would be fun to bring along my Grandpa to give the kids some of the same childhood memories.  This year Evan didn't care to go to the cirecus and there was no way I was braving it by myself with the 2 kids, but my mom and grandpa said they'd go with us and thanks to my cousin Tom we got free tickets too!  The kids had a blast. 

Makenna was exhausted by intermission time and so I took her out in the lobby and some how worked my magic (that has basically disappeared) and got her to go to sleep for about 30 minutes.  Denver made it the whole way through.  His favorite part was the tigers!  We went pretty early to ensure good seats and plenty of time to get situated and the whole time Denver kept asking where the tigers were.  After the tigers were done he continued to ask where they went and wanted to see them some more.  He did get quite intrigued with the elephants and some other acts as well. 

It was fun to watch Denver's face in awe of things and trying to understand how they just did what they did (during the "magic tricks").  There were also times we saw these faces on Makenna.  I'm so glad we went and hope that Grandma Verni and Great Grandpa Melvin will be up for the circus again next year!

Makenna kept insisting upon having some of my mom's pop so she finally gave in and let her try it....it came right back out!  She didn't care for it!  About the only thing she doesn't like! :)

My Baby is One!

On cinco de Mayo (the 5th of May) my baby turned 1!  What a blessed day!  God has blessed our family with a lovely little girl whom we love so very much.  Our little girl who has been earning the nickname of little princess at times has transformed into this "big girl".  Its amazing how fast these little ones learn things and change.  I've learned how precious every step, and every stage is with Makenna as it always seems like it goes to fast and I didn't have enough time to enjoy the last thing she was doing or learning.  We kept busy to keep my mind off the fact that there are no more babies in our house.  The kids helped me make muffins to take to the office to celebrate with Daddy (and his co-workers), but the birthday girl fell asleep on the way to the shop and didn't wake up until we left the office!  Then it was on to errands and a baby shower.  The evening was spent at Chuck-E-Cheese with some friends who came to help us celebrate.  We finished up the celebrations by celebrating tonight with our family.  It was great that so many people could celebrate our beautiful little girls special day.

Eating her birthday muffin.

Makenna's Barbie Jeep (her bday gift from us...my rummage sale find!)

Yum...pizza and cake, what could be better!

I love my friend, Berkley!

Chuck-E-Cheese is so much fun!

You think I'm a big girl?

Now...I'm a big girl! (crawling back up the slide like the big kids)

Riding her new girly scooter from her friend Berkley!

Opening Presents

Eating yummy supper and having my great-great grandma's talk to me!

Love Balloons!

I want that fire! (and she got a hold of the hot wax before I got it away...which may have stifled our fun)

"Mmmmm" (you could hear her saying this)

"What will happen if I try to throw this thing?"

"Okay, I think I've had enough mom!"

Happy Birthday Papa!

We love you!

Made a practice cake and the "real thing".

Makenna and 1 of her lady bug cakes!