Friday, February 19, 2010

Our Little Laynie is 1!

Our Little Laynie-Bug is 1 year old! We can hardly believe the time has flown by so fast!

Some things about Elayna right now:


- She has the sweetest personality. You just want to eat 'er up.
- She loves to climb. On everything. The table, the dishwasher, laundry baskets, you name it, she gets on top of it.
- She is sassy. She will push Colt or Cade off my lap if she wants to sit on it. This is accompanied by lots of grunts until she gets her way.
- If you turn your back on her for a second and she isn't it sight, there's about 100% chance she is in the bathroom trying to brush her teeth.
- She can say Ma-ma and Da-da and makes you feel so special.
- She loves her sleep. She will go to bed at 6:30 and sleep 'til 7:30 the next morning. She also takes one good 2-3 hour nap a day! Beauty sleep!
- She is loving just about every food we give her. Trying not to give her a sucker when the boys have one= nearly impossible. She loves suckers.


We had such a fun day celebrating her birthday. Cade was the most excited! He wanted to do everything- shop for party decorations, wrap her presents and make her cake! While Layne and Colt were taking a nap in the afternoon I left him the wrapping paper, scissors, tape and 3 presents to wrap while I went to take a shower. I peeked out after my shower and he was just completing the first present with atleast 50 pieces of tape- but it was just so precious! He was just so focused! He would not let me finish helping him with the other ones either!


Here are some pics of Elayna and her birthday! Warning: There are a lot!



She loves to get into everything! My cupboards are always getting emptied!
Here's where we knew we'd find her! Trying to brush her teeth!

Loves her food!
This is her on her birthday. She loved all the balloons!

One of the cakes!
She actually loved opening her presents!



She got mad because we couldn't get the box with her baby doll open fast enough! She sure does have a temper already!
She immediately tried to suck the pacifier that was the baby doll's. She also refuses to put the baby in her new baby stroller but instead tries to sit in it herself!

This was one of the presents Cade wrapped!
Her fave present by far! She's waving to all the passerbys!

Cake time!
She acted like she had done this before! Just dug right in!

Lovin' it.

Did I mention she hardly ever sits down in her highchair!
Daddy cleaning her up! Fun day!

8 comments:

AngiDe said...

Those cake pictures are so cute!!! She looks like she really enjoyed it! Happy Birthday to your sweet girl!

XO

Sissy Jackson said...

She looks like a Rock Star in the very first picture...LOVE IT. She is darling and we are so lucky to have you all as friends...love ya.

Lindsey said...

She is adorable. I love the lady bug theme. It is so cute how she went right for the cake.

Whit said...

Happy HAppy birthday Laynie!! She is adorable Mandy. What a love.

by the way, I laughed at the "make-shift" gate you've got going on. ha ha

The Chenery Family said...

Your family is so darn beautiful Mandy! Happy birthday to Laynie :)

Happy Hastings' said...

It looks like she had a great celebratory day!! I love Cade's wrapped present... What sweet kiddos!! Love you guys, and Happy Belated to Laynie!!!

Naomi said...

What SWEETNESS! Oh, there is just nothing like a little girl!

Abbigail said...

Laynie is such a doll. Amazing she is a year old. It seems like my little one was turning a year not that long ago. You are brave to use that red frosting! :) So cute.
Happy Birthday to Laynie!