Rainbow Brite

When I was growing up, my sister and I LOVED Rainbow Brite. It's not the same rainbow brite that is out now days. In fact I have mentioned before that I wish I would have kept my rainbow brite and strawberry shortcake toys from when I was little because they don't make them like they used to. ANYWAY, I bought these pajamas for Libby a little while ago and she is finally growing into them. But every time I put them on her, she always reminds me of Rainbow Brite so I had to snag a picture. And of course this morning her had this adorable flip on the side so I had to take a pic of that too. What a cute Rainbow Brite!

The Birthday

Ok so I finally found time to post about Libby's Birthday party. It was such a fun day. We don't have too many pictures of the day because I guess we decided to record it on video most of it instead. But what we do have is fun.

These first 3 pics are just how we decorated. I hung these tissue paper flowers on our ceiling everywhere. Libby loved them. I actually hung them the day before her birthday and every time she would come into the family room she would be mesmerized by them. It sure made it worth every second.

This was her birthday cake. She loves Mickey and so I made her a Minnie cake. Not bad for my first go around eh?

And this was the dessert table.

These next pics are after we opened Libby's presents. She sure is spoiled, but we wouldn't have it any other way for our Lynns.

Isn't this smile priceless?

This open mouth face was pretty much the whole day...

here it is again...

Libby is obsessed with babies. In fact she got two more for her birthday making her total of 5 baby dolls for being 1 year old.

And this picture just cracks me up. All her cousins that were there were over playing with her toys and Libby is laying in the middle of the floor playing with her baby doll. That is so Libby. She is obsessed with laying on the floor and rolling around.

This was Libby's birthday cake that I let her "go to town on". I didn't let her do that with the Mickey cake because I was worried about her being dyed black from the frosting. But I guess I should have not worried about it. Libby didn't DARE touch the cake and wanted someone to feed it to her. At one point I put her hand in the cake and she flipped out. Silly girl, can't stand anything on her hands and is so proper.

And this was after everyone left. My mom gave her a walker and it was so crazy. We put it together and she crawled on her knees with it for about 2 seconds and then stood up and off she went on her feet. She fell quite a few times, but she is doing really well with it.

Look at that chubby/skinny legs. I don't know how, but she kind of has both.

Look daddy I'm doing it!

Libby's birthday was so much fun. Thanks to all the family that came and supported us. We had a blast and we think Libby had a lot of fun too. She was all smiles all day and was just so happy and pleasant. I guess that was a good sign that she liked it.

Happy Birthday sweet girl! "Ba" and "Da da" love you!

1 Year Old!

My little baby girl is 1! How in the world did that happen? We had such a fun day and pictures will be coming soon. As soon as I can find some time to upload pictures, you'll see them from the day. Along with turning one and having a party, I wanted to get some fun pictures of Libby for her birthday. The day we took our family pictures, my sister-in-law tried to snag a few of Libs and most turned out where she was either crying (literally screaming) or not looking at the camera. I decided to see if I could do better (with the help of my other sister-in-law), and had a little more success of not crying the whole entire time. Here is just one picture that I got on my second attempt. I plan to post the others soon, but for now you can enjoy this one.

A new Family Picture...FINALLY

My amazing sister-in-law always gets ropped into taking pictures of my family when we get together. And this last weekend was no exception. The plan was to get my mom and dad with all their grandkids for their christmas cards and so I jumped in and asked for a new family picture too. We tried to get Libby's 1 year old pics but those are coming soon. For now, just enjoy my cute family! :)

I also wanted to post this before I forget, and before the post for Libby's 1st birthday. I'm tired of these papers laying around, just waiting for me to write them down. So here are things Libby could do at each month. Really, this is kind of boring, so don't feel bad if you don't read. I'm mainly putting this down for my records.

9 Months:

*Claps

*Can itch her arms, legs and head

*Hits toys together

*Amazing eater

*Babbles and talks up a storm...can make lots of noises

*Favorite toy is her little caterpillar and blue ring off her ring stacker, and her doll with hair

*Still petrified of the vacuum

*Loves to sleep on her side

*Finds the littlest things on the floor...strings, crumbs

*Very curious. Checks everything out but doesn't put anything in her mouth

*Puts her leg up on everything, just lounging

*Waves, but not on purpose yet

*Can drink out of a sippy cup (only took 2 days to learn)

*Scoots around everywhere

10 Months:

*Tries to drink her sippy cup by herself

*Hates her towel on after her bath so she flaps her arms until it comes off

*Insists on sitting backwards on her bath chair and falls over constantly

*Hew new trick is to hide something from herself and then find it

*Gets totally giddy when sees her bottle being made

*Loves pear yogurt

*Scoots everywhere and can now pull herself up on her knees

*FIRST TOOTH (well first 2 teeth coming in at the same time. Never was cranky, in fact I was lucky to see them pushing through one night while feeding her dinner, or else I would have never known until they finally came through)

11 Months:

*Definitely loves her blanky and carried it around with her everywhere

*Moves around everywhere now.

*Likes to stand but needs help holding herself up. Can now pull herself up but falls immediately if we are not there to help her

*Knows how to say "no no", and says it to everything

*When she's told not to touch something, she will not touch it, but go up to it and shake her head no-no at it

*She loves her dollies, and is constantly pulling the hair out of one of her dolls.

*She hates riding in the car but if I give her one of her blankies, she's fine for the ride

*Has started to not like fruit as much as she used to. Still loves her veggies, shockingly enough. Favorite things to eat are yogurt, any type of bread and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

*Loves to hide and push things under the couch (not so funny to us when we are trying to find keys or phones)

*Knows to put the phone up to her ear

*When playing with my purse or diaper bag, tried to put it up on her shoulder and scoots around with it

*When I let her play with her hair brush after I have brushed through her hair, she'll hold it up by her head like she's brushing it too.

*Pulls self up on feet to stand and doesn't need any help. In fact, she wants us to let go of her now

*Took 2 steps by herself while holding on the couch when she was 11 months and 1 week old

Ok that is our Libby Lynn the past 3 months. I think I'm all caught up on everything before her 1st birthday.

It's Been a While

I know, for those of you who actually check my blog, it has been a while since I have posted anything. With me going back to work, this seems to be low on priority list. But to hold you over for the next week or so, I thought I would post some new pictures of Libs that I have taken the past month.

A few weeks back, Libby and I went for a walk. We hadn't been outside all day and little did I know that it would be quite cold. So I threw a blanket on her and she was as happy as could be. She kept her legs and hands inside the whole time. She looked so cute that I had to snag a few pictures. The last few, she was making funny faces at the camera so I couldn't resist putting them on for everyone to see. What funny girl!

One day Jedd and I went to go get Libby up from her nap and realized that she knew how to sit up. Well that immediately made us put her crib down on the lower level. This was the beginning of September. The funny thing was we never knew she could do that until she started doing it in her crib. We didn't see her do it in front of our own eyes for about a week after, but it was quite funny. So here she is sitting up in her crib on the lower level. Much safer now!

And last, but not least....the other day my grocery store had an AMAZING sale on some pop. Jedd takes one of these to work everyday (I know, he's kind of addicted) and so instead of him buying one either in a machine or stopping at the gas station, I picked up as many as I could justify buying. It all wouldn't fit in my cart the first time, so Libs and I had to go back through again and buy more. We sure got some strange looks, but at least we are set for a while. I mean come on, I paid $0.27 for a bottle....AMAZING!

I promise to try and be better about posting pictures. Look forward to 1st birthday pictures coming soon. 2 weeks from today, Libby is 1!!