Lucy's Sweet Shoppe

We celebrated our sweet baby girl's first birthday with a sweet shoppe birthday party! We celebrated with close friends and family

 

We decorated the house with pictures, pennants and candy necklaces and definitely had our fair share of sweets :).

 

 

 

We made this sign for Lucy using Sixlets of white and pink.  Yes, it took forever, but it was worth it in the end :).

 



 

We had a few details on our mantle of her past year.  We printed her footprints on a canvas every three months and took a picture of her every month to see her growth.  All the other awesome portraits were taken by Jeremy Maz.  All of those pictures can be seen here .

 

 

Her Aunt Krystal made her this sign with Lucy's stats at her birth. 

 

And mommy got to make Lucy's cake :).

 

 

 

And you can't have a sweet shoppe without sweets!!  We definitely had enough to choose from thanks to helping hands from family and friends.

 

These cookies have always been mommy's favorite that Baba makes :).

 

 

 

 

 

These French macarons that Nana made were a hit!

 

 

 

The favors were cupcake cake pops.  These seemed appropriate for our little cupcake :).

 

 

 

To keep the kiddos busy some of them made their own candy necklaces out of cereal and other candies.

At last it was time for the birthday girl to get some cake!

We sang happy birthday and she definitely wasn't so sure about what was going on :).

 



We had to get things started and encourage her a little bit, but once we did...

 



there were no issues with digging in, grabbing the cake and stuffing it in her mouth :).

 



By the time she finished she had eaten half of that little cake!!

 

 

 

 

A quick family picture with that messy face and she was cleaned up...in the bathtub of course.

 



Thank you to all who helped and made this birthday a very sweet one for our little one! 

We love you Lucy girl!!  Happy 1st birthday!!!

 

*And a big thank you to Lyndsay for helping me take pictures and document this eventful day!!  This helped me out so much!! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little Lucy Walks!!

Little Lucy decided to take her first steps on her birthday.  Since then, however, she has been crawling and taking one or two steps here and there.  I guess the walking just wasn't all it was cracked up to be :).

 

This weekend she chose to walk and actually take more than two steps!!  In two days she has progressed from taking a few steps to now fully walking!!

 

Go Lucy!!  We're so proud of you!!

 

 

Now the challenge will be to find small enough walking shoes that fit those tiny feet! :)

 



Lucy's 12th Month

I cannot believe this is the last month-by-month post I am doing for Lucy's first year.  I know I've said it a lot but this year REALLY went by way too fast!!  I think that realization is why I've been waiting to actually write this post :).

 

Lucy, this month you have seriously grown from a baby to a little toddler!!

 

At 12 months Lucy:

~ has officially become a climber!!  She climbs up and on to almost anything.  The tricky part is that she most of the time starts to cry because she can't get down. 

 

 

She still loves hiding out in small spaces.

 

 

~ is such a goober and has her little quirks about her.  She loves putting objects on her head, laughing and showing us her teeth, and grinning so big her little cheeks get so red.  She makes us smile all the time.  This month she seemed to really show more of her personality and she's a spunky one!!

 

 

~ took her first steps on her birthday!!!  We're still trying to get some good video of that.  She is still very much a crawler :).

 

 

 

~ loves crawling through and under anything she can.  She loves these play tubes!

 

 

~ is following in her sister's footsteps some as she is already acting like a little gymnast :).

 

 

We don't know what it is about it, but she loves stethoscopes!!  She literally has it around her neck all the time!!

 

 

 

~ starting to wean her in the next few weeks and she's on to whole milk!

 

~ is babbling away!  She is saying a lot of sounds but like a good friend explained it in her blog; kids of teachers have it hard.  If she's not referring that sound or words to something, it doesn't count :).

 

 

~ really enjoys playing with her sister's toys even though she has a tub full of her own :).

 

 

She is pretty sweet to those little babies though :)

 

 

At her 12 month appointment she weighed in at 16 lbs, 7oz (6%) and 28 inches long (11%).  She's a sweet petite.

 

 

 

 

One year is officially in the books! :)