Caroline turns ONE!

July 30, 2010

I can't believe my baby is ONE!

It seems like it was just yesterday that we were preparing to leave for the hospital for the induction. It wasn't, of course. It was a year ago today and I am SO glad that my baby is here!

Caroline, you are the light of my life. I am so proud of you.

You make me smile every day. I love you, sweet girl!

As you can see, I tried to get a last set of growth pictures, but my sweet Caroline wasn't very happy that we were trying to take her picture.

I debated whether or not to put these up, but I thought you guys should see all of our life! ;)

I started Caroline's birthday out by going into her room singing "Happy Birthday". Here is a video. I am not sure she knew what to think.

Daddy came home with flowers for me and Caroline. I got roses and Caroline got an assortment. It was such a sweet thing! We really enjoyed them!

Caroline's Flowers

Mommy's Flowers ( I am SO, SO happy to be a Mommy!)

We went to Cracker Barrel for Caroline's first meal out.

She had grilled chicken, green beans and biscuits, of course!

She loved everything, but the green beans!

Very Messy Baby!

I made Caroline "Happy Birthday" cookies since she had already

had her birthday cake in Mobile. She loved it!

Singing "Happy Birthday!"

Unwrapping Presents

Mommy & Caroline

Daddy & Caroline

This video is Caroline getting her first Happy Birthday call from David's grandfather. He calls all of us to sing to us every birthday. It is so special!

This is a video of Caroline opening presents. She had a good time!

What I Love About You...52 Weeks

52 Weeks

July 29, 2010

*This is my last weekly post. I can't believe I made it a whole year of weekly posts and pictures. It took forever to get them posted, but I love them!

I Love...

-relaxing with you at the Grand Hotel!

-how much you love all your new toys. Here is the one your Aunt Carrie gave you for your birthday. You love it!

Caroline's First Birthday Party!

July 24, 2010

We had Caroline's First Birthday Party in Mobile.

I made the invitations and cakes.

Most of the family came and we swam and had a great time!

The theme for the party was taken from a pink and purble elephant toy that Carolie LOVES!

A picture of it is below with the party invitation.

The Cake!

Caroline's personal cake. It was huge!

The invitation and toy the theme was taken from.


Opening Presents

Time for the cake!

Caroline was so funny with her cake!

She just looked at it like, "what am I supposed to do with that?"

Eventually, I took her finger and put it in the icing and then in her mouth

and after that, all bets were off. She dug in like crazy! She loved it!

"Awe, Mom, why did you take it away?"

Family shots from the day:

David's Papa, Granny, Mom and Dad with Caroline

David's Granny & Mom with me and Caroline

My parents with Caroline

David and I with Caroline

What I Love About You...51 Weeks

51 Weeks

July 22, 2010

I forgot to do Caroline's weekly shot this week! I can't believe I did it in the second to last week!

I love...

-watching you crawl under your exersaucer. You love playing under there!

-watching you play with dominoes with your Daddy. You LOVED to slide/throw them off the table. There is a video of all this below.

-watching you play with your friend, Sadie. You guys play so well together!

-watching you play with these weights that Daddy just had to put on your ankles. You had no idea what to do with them!

-how we scraped every piece of food out of this jar we could and you still had to try to get every last bit! Too cute!

-seeing you snuggling with your Poppa! It was so sweet! I used to do this with him when I was a little girl too!

The Dominoe Video:

What I Love About You...50 Weeks

50 Weeks

July 15, 2010

I Love...

-your cuteness that never ends! This is a picture of you after a bath after I was drying your hair. You are too cute!

-how you loved to play with these towels. Almost anything can entertain you!

-how you lay in the floor and pretend to nap. You are too cute!

-how you love to knock down tons of blocks over and over! Daddy builds and rebuilds them just so you can knock them down.

You love to bounce up and down in your exersaucer!

You love to play with your Daddy in your bed. This is one of your favorite things to do!

What I Love About You...49 Weeks

49 Weeks

July 8, 2010

I Love...

-that you and I had a girl's morning while Daddy got to go kayaking for the first time in years. I could tell he really enjoyed his time on the water!

-watching you sleep. There is nothing sweeter than my sleeping baby!

-watching you learn to walk. It's amazing how fast you are growing up!

-your love for books! I hope you continue to love books. This is one of your favorite things to do. You sit in front of your bookshelf, pull all the books off the shelf and "read" them.

This is a video of you and your Daddy playing. You like to try to run from him when he comes in to get you up from your nap. You are too cute!

This is when you were first pulling up to walk and trying to use your walking toy.