Saturday, August 22, 2009

Happy Birthday Anna!

I can't believe it - Anna is ONE YEAR OLD!

It is crazy how fast time flies ... it feels like just yesterday that she was a teeny little baby, and I swear, just overnight she is a toddler!

Some of our favorite things about Anna:
-She is a snuggle bug! She loves to give kisses and lay her head on your shoulder
-She absolutely adores Owen and her dad. She will giggle and smile non-stop when they are around.
-She sleeps through the night! It took about 2 weeks of letting her cry herself to sleep (stubborn little thing) but she now sleeps every night all night!


She got a kick out of having her own cake.
It took her a minute or two, but she got the hang of it.
Owen was SO super excited for Anna's birthday... it was a long long day for him to wait until the party started! He (of course) opened all the presents, blew out the candle, and made sure he had plenty of cake!

Owen feeding Anna's new doll...
Anna feeding her doll... I had no idea that she had put this concept together herself. No one even showed her, she just picked the bottle up and went straight for the doll.
I love her little tongue sticking out in this picture. She was so cute walking her baby around!


One happy girl!

Here's a video of her reaction when we set her up by the cake. It was classic!


Anna by the numbers:

18.5 is how many pounds she is at one year (15 percentile for her age)
28.5 is how long she is (25 percentile for her age)

Random Facts:

Anna started walking fully by herself one week before her 1st birthday
Anna doesn't take a binky anymore!
(we had to cut Owen's binkys up at age 2!)
Anna loves big people food - anything and everything.
Anna has all 8 front teeth in, and is working on her molars.
Anna had tubes in her always-infected ears at 10 months old.
Anna loves being outside, I repeat, LOVES.
Anna loves our horses and our dogs.
Anna loves to get in the bath and the swimming pool.
Anna loves to slide on our slippery slide.
Anna can say 'da-da' for dad, 'daw' for dog, she nods her head 'yes' and 'no,' 'mawm' for mom

We love you Anna Banana!

5 comments:

Bulletin Board said...

Happy Birthday sweet Anna girl!!! We love you!!!

Justin, Kelli, Estin & Eli said...

Bulletin Board is us.. oops! :)

About Me said...

Em, she is just the cutest little girl! I can't believe she's already a year old! Looks like her party was way fun. It was awesome hanging out tonight...I needed a little 'girl time!' Can't wait til the next one!

Mom/DeRae said...
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Mom/DeRae said...

The video clip is PRICELESS!!!! SOOOOO CUTE!!!! I only wish we could have been there in person! LOVE AND MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!! XXXXXX & OOOOOO's to the birthday girl and 'Bubba'.:) Looks like everyone had a great time. What a precious picture of Anna and her great-grandma feeding the 'baby'.