WHERE DID OUR BABY GO?
Last weekend we celebrated Emery’s 1st Birthday.
Her FIRST BIRTHDAY….. wow- how did that happen? I promised myself that I
wouldn’t be that mom who constantly tells her children that “it seems like
yesterday Daddy & I were bringing you home for the first time”
buuuuuuut it really does seem like
yesterday! Ok, maybe a few months ago,
but not a year. A year already?! When I
say this out loud to other parents, mainly those who have grown children, their
response to me is “Just wait, it won’t be long ‘til you are throwing her a
sweet 16 party!” Noooo I don’t want to be there already… I want to hold my baby
Emmy Bear forever and keep her tiny- with her tiny feet and tiny hands, her
little voice and all the adorable babble she rattles off. I want the clothes to
stop getting bigger, the hair to stop getting longer, and the pitter patter of little
feet to stop getting louder. Okay-okay,
not really- but if it would slow down a little that would be GREAT! ;0)
No- but seriously, it was a few weeks ago that Em and I were
at a little boys 1st birthday party that I finally realized she really isn’t a
baby anymore. Well, she will always be my “baby”, but this girl was walking
around this party like she owned the place. She had her sippy cup in one hand
and a pink plastic robot arm in the other (that was the theme of the party;
robots) and she was on a mission to see how many people she could get to tell
her how cute she was, and to conquer the step between the sliding glass door and
the patio (which she did in about 2 tries). I watched her walk from the kitchen
out to the patio where the other, bigger girls were playing with chalk, and
thought to myself “where did my baby go?”
A few days later, while Matt and I were out shopping, I
picked up a pack of baby hair ties to attempt for the ba-gillionth time to pull
her ever growing hair out of her eyes. When we got home I took two hair ties
and gave her pigtails. She reached back up to
me looking for her sippy cup, and off she went with her cup in hand & pigtails
bouncing on top of her head. That was it…that was the final straw…. no more
baby- we officially have a real-life little person! She knows what she wants
& where she wants to go, and she knows how to get there!
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY!
For Emery’s 1st Birthday Party we threw a cupcake
party! What better way to celebrate than with cupcakes? We had a gigantic
cupcake, medium sized cupcakes, and teensy weensy cupcakes, pink lemonade
cupcakes, orange dreamsicle cupcakes, peanut butter and jelly cupcakes and of
course vanilla cupcakes. Needless to say; there were A LOT of cupcakes! Luckily
we had a great turn out to eat most of the cupcakes (or at least take them home
with them!)
The weather, was so very unlike February weather, so we opened
the doors and put down blankets in the yard and encourage Emery’s guests to
enjoy the beautiful sunshine and 70 degree sunshine. Emmy stole the show, of
course, in her bright pink and green skirt and polka-dotted bow. She kept busy by coloring on the patio with chalk, playing in the new play area daddy built and mingling with guests. When it came
time for cake, she didn’t disappoint and knew exactly what to do. Mommy handed
her the cake after the Happy Birthday song was sung, and she dug right in; going back for seconds and thirds and fourths! She was so funny as she kept pressing her face into the cake and shaking her head back & forth! By the end of it, she was covered
head to toe in pink, orange, and white frosting and a big ol’ grin to match!
It was a beautiful day, with great friends and family and a
happy little girl who was no doubt spoiled by the end of it. Such a perfect way to celebrate a very amazing,
sometimes challenging, but always exciting and undeniably rewarding year! I
still can’t believe that a year really has come and gone so quickly, but I feel
so blessed to have had the opportunity to stay at home with her and watch her
grow day after day into this little person. What an adventure this last year
has been, and I can honestly say that I am ready for all the excitement, challenges,
and fun that this next year will bring. Bring on the toddler years!
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