"Cheese"

Annie saying "cheese" in her new sunglasses!
She loves her new chair! She is so big now!

She loved splashing around outside with Daddy!

"Duckie, duckie"! She cannot be trusted to throw the bread.

She wants to eat it herself!

My little musician! Yet another trait she gets from Mitch!

Easter 2009

We had such a wonderful Easter this year. Annie is at the perfect age and loved every part of it, from opening her Easter basket to hunting Easter eggs! Mitch and I put her Easter basket together about a week before and I couldn't wait to hide it. I don't know what I was thinking though, you can't hide a one year old's Easter basket! This year the Easter Bunny left it out in the open in the living room but, next year she will have to hunt it down!

Annie looked SO cute in her pink and green polka-dot dress with her massive pink bow! I always lay her clothes out and Mitch always dresses her on Sunday mornings. He has gotten so good at putting on all of Annie's girlish accessories from tights to bloomers and bows! When he reached for the bow on Easter morning he looked at me and said "Seriously?" I shook my head yes and he said "Blair, we used to talk about people that put these bows in their daughter's hair"! And the truth is, we did! Now I know why they did it, because it is so darn cute! I know that it was practically the same size as her head but, it looked so adorable that I just couldn't resist! Everyone at church thought so too and she was definitely not the only little girl with an enormous bow in her hair!

Mitch's parents came down the weekend before Easter and brought all of us chocolate Easter bunnies. Yummy! Annie had a great time visiting with her MeMomma and G Daddy. On Easter afternoon we went to my parents house and had Easter dinner and an egg hunt with her cousins. All of the girls did so good and found a bunch of eggs! Nana and Papa got Annie an Easter basket with lots of treats! Easter 2009 was so great and here are a few photos from it!

New pictures finally!

Wow! It's been a long time since I posted anything! Since my last post, Annie has been a very busy girl. She is walking all over the place now and thinks she is big stuff! It is so cute to see her little body look so much like a big person! Its kind of bittersweet because now I think she is an official toddler and not a baby.

She is loves her Daddy so much! That is all she ever talks about, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" Since she is stuck on the "D" sound so much we have been trying to teach her to say Doggie. She can also say "Woof, woof" when you ask her what a dog says, very cute!

We can't wait until the weather warms up and we can play outside. We have played in the yard a couple of times and Annie loves to watch Biscuit chase the bubbles!

Daddy's Girl

As much as I don't want to admit it, I think I have to say that Annie is a Daddy's girl. Don't get me wrong, she loves me but, she has a such a good time with Mitch! She is so much like him it's scary! She is already so daring. She loves to be scared and surprised and she loves to be tossled all around when your playing with her! The crazier the playtime the more laughs you get from Annie! Those two together are going to give me a head full of gray hair! :) Here are some pictures I thought you might enjoy!

Little Cutie!

Christmas and Birthday in Kentucky!

We went to Kentucky to celebrate Christmas and Annie's birthday with Mitch's family almost two weeks ago. (I'm a little late getting this pictures up!) Annie had a great time! She had fun playing with her cousins and spending time with G Daddy and MeMomma! She also got to see both of her great grandmothers at her birthday party! We came home with several more toys and our living room is beginning to look like Toys R Us! Annie got her first basketball goal from MeMomma and G Daddy. (I wonder who told them to get that? Hmmm....!!) It was fun seeing everyone and getting to spend time with them!

Birthday Celebrations!

Annie turned the big one last week and we have been celebrating ever since! On New Year's Eve, Annie's official birthday, we went to our friends cabin with our some of our close friends from college and their kids. It was so much fun! Our friends Rachel and Eric bought Annie a cake and we all had so much fun watching her dive into it! It was a great night and such a memorable way to spend Annie's first birthday!

On Sunday we had a party with my side of the family at our house. I made two cakes. One for Annie and one for all of us to eat. Annie's special cake was supposed to be a big cupcake but at the last minute when Mitch and I went to put it together it started falling sideways! Oh well, it eventually got demolished by the "cake monster" anyway! Annie had lots of fun. She ate two entire pieces of pizza, danced a little, and played with her family! Annie loved all of her presents especially her new DVD player for the car and DVD's! Thanks Nana and Papa! We had a great party!

This weekend we are headed to Kentucky to celebrate Christmas and Annie's birthday with Mitch's family! We will post more pictures and update you on that when we return!

Happy Birthday to our baby!

Happy First Birthday Annie Brooke! It is so hard to believe an entire year has come and gone. What an amazing time we have had with our precious baby girl! She has brought us more joy than we could have ever imagined and we look forward to what the future holds. My only wish it that time would not go by so fast!

I took her to the doctor today for her one year well check. She now weighs 20 lbs. 10 oz and is 29 inches long. She has almost tripled in weight since birth! Wow! She was in the 50th percentile for height and weight and Dr. Johnson said she was looking good! Her top two teeth and getting bigger each day and you can almost see one when she laughs really big!