Happy First Birthday little Lexi, I cannot believe that you are one years old today! It feels like just yesterday that I had you, honestly I still feel like this has all been a dream. Your first year has flown by so quickly, but your dad and I have enjoyed every minute of it! Something your dad and I talked about doing was decorating a bookshelf for your birthday month. I found this idea online from a friend, she had decorated her fireplace mantel for her son's first birthday and I loved the idea. Where we live now we don't have a fireplace mantel so I decided the bookshelf would work perfectly, and it did! I decided to decorate with Unicorns, I saw this idea on Pinterest and found a few things here at home and a couple items at the store, all in all I was very pleased with how it turned out!
This month has been a quiet one once again, we had a few fun things this month though so that kept us busy. First you joined me for my wards Relief Society activity where we did a few service projects to go with our theme "Share the Love." You spent a little of the activity in the nursery room playing with other kids and toys. For the most part you did pretty good but you were also really tired so I had you stay with me the remainder of the night.
We celebrated your first Valentines Day this month, first we had a "Galentines" day lunch with Ashley and Aria at Panera. Aria was so cute and brought you a little Valentines card. We spent that evening with daddy at home, I made a cute Valentines Day back drop and made you take a few pictures for your dad, grandparents and aunts and uncles. I also made us a yummy steak dinner and we had chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert. Sadly you weren't able to eat steak with us but I made sure to give you the mushrooms from the steak, and some vegetables out of my salad for part of your dinner that night. Dad also brought you home some yogurt puffs which have become your favorite snack lately. Grandpa and Grandma Almond sent you a Valentine from Nampa it was a cute little Unicorn which tied in with your Birthday decorations perfectly.
my forever Valentine's
Valentine from Grandpa and Grandma
girls lunch date!
And last but not least we got to celebrate your first birthday with you! It was just your dad and I on your actual birthday but we are going to Utah to visit my family soon and we will do a family birthday party with you then. Your birthday started out like a normal day you got up at 7:30 we played and had breakfast and then your dad went to school. During your morning nap I set up a little birthday photo shoot (similar to the 6 month one) and after you had lunch I took a few photos of you. My goodness you are so active, it was much easier to pose you and have you stay put when you were littler. Haha. Once your dad got home from school we all loaded up in the car and drove to Idaho Falls to have dinner. We took you to your dad's favorite fast food place called Chick Fil-A, sadly we don't have one here in Pocatello so whenever we go somewhere that has one he has to stop. Afterwards we went to get you a cupcake for your dessert, we went to The Cocoa Bean Cafe and picked you out a Raspberry Cheesecake cupcake and one for your dad and I and then headed back home so you could do your "cake smash" there.
This year on my birthday you were so excited about the cake I was eating that I thought for sure you would love to be able to eat and smash your very one cake. But sadly I think you were too overtired and upset that daddy wouldn't give you his cell phone so you cried more than smashed the cake. Hopefully this one was just practice for when we got to Utah in the next week. :) We were able to FaceTime both grandparents and aunt Emily so they helped us sing Happy Birthday to you and watched you take a few tastes of the frosting. Once you started to get upset we let you down and you took your dads phone around the house and played until bath time. I think you were pretty tired because you went to bed pretty quickly that night.
Your dad and I got your bath toys and another push toy for your Birthday
our cute matching mommy daughter shirts from Dusty, Courtney and Clara :)
Aunt Kristin made you this sweet Unicorn for your birthday!
We had your one year old check up before we headed out of town to Utah, you weigh 18 lbs. and are 28 and a quarter inches tall (2 ft 4 in). You are walking all over the place now, you seem to be an early walker according to a lot of people and you love it! You are still sleeping through the night which is great and you get about 10-11 hours at night with 2 naps. I have started putting you in mostly 12 month clothes occasionally you will wear a 9 month outfit. You now have 6 teeth four on top and just the bottom two, you no longer eat baby food solids and are starting to feed yourself more with a spoon and fork. You look so big feeding yourself it kills me how grown up you look at times. You still love to walk around saying "dadda, dad, and other jibber jabber that we don't understand yet. :) You LOVE phones! Anytime you see our phones you want to hold them and play with them. You also will take any object/toy and hold it up to your ear and pretend to be on the phone it is so stinking cute! Lately when we are playing with our phones we've started to say "say cheese" and you will give us the goofiest cheesy grin ever, yesterday (2/20) you were playing with your dad and he said "say cheese" and you tried to say cheese it was so cute!
Happiest Birthday Lexi Anne! Your dad and I sure love you and are so blessed to have you in our lives!
