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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Birthday Weekend

Lilah's birthday was wonderful...she looked like she had a great time. We had a busy, but very fun weekend celebrating with our families.

On Saturday we picked Aunt Stacie & Gianna up from the airport, they flew up from South Carolina to celebrate with us. We then headed to Nana's house to get ready for the party on Sunday. Lilah & Gianna seem to have a great time playing together, looking forward to when they are both a little older and are interacting even more. They are just so cute together.

Josh & Gianna giving the stink eye,
takes a little bit to warm up

So excited to see Aunt Stacie!

Sunday was the big day! Mom-mom, Nana, Aunt Stacie & Grandma helped us get everything together. We didn't have particular theme, the colors were pink, green & purple.

We decided to give Lilah some of her birthday gifts early to spread out the fun throughout the day...

Very bright future

Got her first baby doll, Dora the Explorer from Mom-mom

Thanks to Aunt Carol for making Lilah's little cake and the cupcakes.

Lilah wasn't a big fan of the cake, maybe later she will come to like cake & icing. We will keep trying :)

Opening all of her presents, Lilah got a lot of clothes and few toys - perfect amount. We are really blessed to have such wonderful families & friends.

Nana got a bounce house obstacle course for the kids and boy was that hit! Thanks Nana!!

Finally we had to take Aunt Stacie & Gianna back to the airport to fly home on Monday, but we stopped at Cracker Barrel on the way for breakfast

At the airport in front a blue crab statue

Gianna is small enough for carry-on baggage.

Monday, May 27, 2013

One Year Old!

Wow, I can't believe our little girl is ONE already! Memories from her birth have been going through my mind all weekend. We are extremely blessed that God has given us Lilah Grace as our daughter. She brings a lot of joy & fun into our home. There are still times a year later that I can't believe that we have a little girl. I have quite few moments over this past weekend that I have gotten choked up that she is a year old already! It really has flown by very fast

When Lilah was born I was excited to see what her personality was going to be like and she has the best personality, she is so much fun and is outgoing like her daddy. She has been such an easy baby and pretty much happy all the time. I love how she waves & smiles at everyone when we are out and about, when someone doesn't wave back her smile disappears. Lilah loves being chased and she is fast crawler, loves to wrestle with her daddy, tossed up in the air, swinging...seems to be a little dare devil. She hasn't really liked cuddling, but recently she has started to cuddle more which we LOVE and we soak it up.

Lilah has almost 8 teeth now, she had a molar come through and we didn't even know it, no tears or pain - must have a high pain intolerance. She is cruising around the furniture, she will walk around holding our hands and will stand by herself for a couple of seconds. She goes to the pediatrician for her one year visit on Wednesday, I have a feeling she is in the lower percentile for weight. Slowly she is getting to be a better eater and seems to try anything at least once, but her favorite foods are mac n'cheese and fruits. She is off of formula and drinking whole milk now, she doesn't like to drink it out of a cup, only the bottle so far.

We had a big party for her yesterday on the Eastern Shore at Mom-mom Teat's house with all of our families. I will be posting pictures soon.

Newborn Lilah Grace

One Year Old Lilah Grace

"Clap Clap"

"Is this the last time we are doing this?"

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a day I had doubts I would ever get to celebrate because I was a mother, that I would only celebrate my mother. From the time I was a little girl, all I ever wanted to be was a mommy. I loved playing with baby dolls, I would help out in the church nursery whenever I could, as a teenager I did alot of babysitting and was very excited when I became an aunt at 15, for several years I got at least one new niece or nephew every year.

I met Josh and we decided after we got married that if I got pregnant right away that was fine with us...it didn't happen. We waited 2.5 long years (well worth it) and had to go to a fertility clinic to finally get pregnant, it was a several month process of tests, a surgery and 2 rounds of IUI - but we finally we found out on Sept 12, 2011 that I was pregnant...oh my word we were excited! The little girl that made me a mommy was born on May 26, 2012. This time last year I was one week from my due date and ready for her to come, but she waited another 2 weeks.

My first Mother's Day was very nice and simple...every year we take my mom to Bob Evan's for breakfast with my brother Brendan's family. Afterwards we came home and relaxed, Lilah was supposed to take a nap but wouldn't, so after lunch we went out shopping and got some new clothes and some things for our house. We had Five Guys for dinner, I was happy with that because I didn't have to cook it :).