Today is Lily's First Birthday!

Today is Lily's first birthday!! Aunt Rachel helped me take this picture this morning.

"I am 1 year old today!"

As many of you know, Lily is an excellent dancer. She loves dancing to the music on her new car from Papa J. Rachel and I thought her shoulder action was too cute not to share. Sorry I forgot that movie mode can't be rotated. Just turn your head to the left. :)

First Birthday Party

Lily's first birthday party was this past weekend and our family came in from out of town to help Lily celebrate.

"Hi Ryan, let's play with the music table together"

The cake was imported from the former Kaufmann's (now Macy's) bakery in Pittsburgh!

Yummy~!!

"Thank you Mommy and Daddy for helping me blow out my candles"

"This cake looks good!"

"It is good!"

"Practicing unwrapping presents at Hanukkah has made me an expert!"

Happy Hanukkah!

With tonight being the last night of Hanukkah, we thought we would post some pictures from the week of lighting candles and opening presents.

For the first night of Hanukkah, Grammy came to visit!

"Wow Grammy, this is a big box!"

"Thanks for the farm Grammy, these Little People animals are tasty"

Lily used Hanukkah to practice unwrapping her presents for her birthday party. By the third night, she was an unwrapping pro!

"Daddy, I can unwrap this all by myself!"

Lily's First Haircut

This morning, Lily had her first haircut! We took her to Sarah's stylist, Linda. Lily just got a trim of her hair in the back. Here are some before and after pictures and video:

Before

"Mommy's hair looks good, can Linda do that for me to?"

During

"This isn't so bad! They have cheerios to snack on here."

"I hope we aren't done, I don't really like the hair in my face"

After

"We look marvelous!"

Chicken Soup for Lily

A couple of Friday nights ago we had chicken soup for dinner. Lily enjoyed some of the meat from the soup and the carrots, but she wasn't satisfied until she had some soup. Watch for yourself:

Cooking with Mommy

This past weekend, Lily got the chance to "help" Mommy cook. To make sure she was safe while she watched Sarah, we got out our travel backpack that we used for Maryland games.


While she wasn't in the backpack, Lily enjoyed emptying out our pumpkin basket full of tea!

Lily at Daycare

We are very lucky to have found a daycare that takes great care of Lily. Lily's teacher, Kim, keeps her digital camera with her at work and recently emailed me some shots of Lily at school. Here are a few:

Apparently Kim found the sunglasses in Lily's backpack. :)

"Even super stars like me have to stop and eat their Cheerios."

"Really, I'm done resting!"

"I like music time."

"Hey Kim! Can you see my tonsils?!"

"I called up Audrey this morning and told her to wear her Carter's heart shirt and purple pants so we could be twins. I kept crawling into Faith's room and she would go, 'Wait, which one is Audrey?!' It was funny."

Playing Ball

Lately, Lily has been enjoying playing ball. Tonight she played with Sarah for almost 10 minutes!

Lily's First Thanksgiving

As many of you know, we spent Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh with Grammy, Papa J, Aunt Rachel, and Uncle Steve. Here are some pictures of the weekend.

"I'm so excited to be in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving!"

"I knew I could count on Papa J to give me apple pie the night before Thanksgiving. Grammy makes good apple pie."

"Turkey tastes like chicken."

The girls in the kitchen after dinner.

"After mom put me in my pjs, I got some pumpkin pie. That was better then the apple, Grammy! I ate the whole piece, sans crust."

Eddie pouting because he's no longer the center of attention.

"Ok Brayden, so when they think we're playing quietly, you create a diversion and I'll grab the rest of the pumpkin pie. We'll meet behind the cooler to chow down."