Signing

In Paisley's 1 year update I forgot to mention that her signing skills are getting pretty good! She regularly signs "eat", "more", "all done" and "milk". I am trying to teach her "thank you" and "bath" now. I will keep you posted on how that's going!

SUGAR RUSH- (The after-party)

This picture says a lot...

Paisley is usually in bed between 8:00 and 8:30, and the night of her birthday and party, she didn't get in bed until after 10:00! She was perfectly happy, but wide awake on a sugar rush! We stayed around Brittany and Wade's until finally she started to wind down. We changed her into her pj's, gave her her milk, and she crashed in the car before we were out of the drive way. Didn't wake up being brought in, moved her straight to the crib. That has only happened a few times! She was exhausted!

Trying out her new hat...

The Birthday Girl!

Paisley had a great time at her first birthday party! First we ate dinner, then we opened presents! She LOVED everything she got so much that she wanted to explore/play with it right then. I can't say I blame her...

Next, Paisley enjoyed her very first piece of cake! First thing she wanted to do was dump it off the plate, but I didn't let her... But when she tried again later, we did! She had fun playing in her cake and I'm sure she thought it was really yummy, too

Unfortunately, this is quite blurry, but still kinda sweet. What a great day our Paisley girl had! So happy that friends and family were able to come and celebrate with us!

Get the hose...

One night leading up to Christmas Jason and I were busy running around the house, and I didn't take the time that night to make supper, so we had Campbell's soup for dinner. (Hello sodium) Oh well, it happens. As it turns out, Paisley LOVED the soup. I had drained a lot of the liquid off they veggies and chicken so that she could feed herself while we were running around the kitchen, and when I looked over at her once, this is what we saw...




And, that's not all, in fact there is MUCH more to come. A bit later, after I had given her more, this is what happened...




We laughed so hard, well at least I did. Jason and his overwhelming urge to keep things (and children) neat and clean, didn't think it was as funny as I did. (I teach young children, a mess is nothing to me). If you listen closely you will hear him say "I'm not cleaning it up. I'm not even helping!" Although, of course he did . :)

Paisley's Winter ONEderland

I decided to do an entire blog just on the set up of the party and decorations. I will do another post on the birthday girl next. I am waiting to get a few more pictures from other people before I post that one. (You know my camera STINKS when it comes to taking pictures of her).

I had so much fun planning and decorating for her party. I wanted to do a Winter theme, and this seemed like a great play on words, and easy to find the stuff with the colors chosen. I ordered her invitation and party circles from ETSY, and I was very pleased with them. I actually just got the rights to print them, so I was sent a pdf file ad printed what I wanted. I "blinged" up the invites with a little jewel, and they worked well. I found lots of snowflakes here and there, and found the details to be the big difference (matching ribbon added, etc). I found the idea for her banner on ETSY as well, and since I had taken monthly pictures, it was a great way to use them. The banner was by far the most time consuming thing to make (even more than the snowman pops we had for favors) but it was very worth it.

We had several types of soups/chili and the fixin's for the main dish, and lots of other finger foods to go with it. We also had hot cider to go with the theme, and cold drinks as well. We had lots of sweets, as you can see from the cake table.

Thanks so much to Wade and Brittany to opening their house so we could have Paisley's party there!

Had to have ONE of the birthday girl!!

1 Year Old!!

Boy time has flown by this year and our precious Paisley is 1 year old! It seems like no time ago we were loading her up in the carrier for the first time, bringing our bundle of joy home. With that same bundle of joy came a new part of life that started with lots and I mean LOTS of crying and sleepless nights, but led to smiles, giggles, a funky crawl, first steps, first words, and an overall love I didn't know existed. I say to Paisley often "Do you know how much I love you?" while knowing she doesn't because I had no idea how much my Mom loves me and my siblings until I had her. It's a love that you can't explain, that seems to grow deeper everyday. We are so blessed to have this precious gift, and thank God for her every day. What an amazing year it has been!

So here is what Little Miss is up to these days...

• Is up to about 20-25 words now! Also says "moooo" for a cow, has meowed like a cat once, and when asked what Santa says, she answers "Ho, Ho!", and says "uh-oh" when something is dropped.
• Still sitting at only 4 teeth. I have been saying over a month I think she is teething though. Just waiting for that next tooth to make it's appearance.
• Started drinking whole milk this week.
• LOVES books, especially board books, and books with animals in them. She can point out a duck, cow, pig, cat, dog, and sometimes horse. She says duck, dog, and mooos for the cow. :)
• Enjoys climbing on everything she can! She loves the slide my parents got her for Christmas since she can climb up the back, and loves climbing the stairs on our way up for nap time. (My attempt to be sure she is wore out!) She also loves to climb in and out of her chair that Jason's parents bought her for Christmas.
• Wears mostly 12 month clothes, but a lot are still a bit big. She also has some 9m outfits we are still wearing that fit well, and some that are too big!
• Size 1 shoe. She can do a size 2 at Target. :)
• Size 2 diapers.
• Weighs 18 lbs (5th percentile)
  28 inches long (25th percentile)

We went to the Dr on Friday for her 1 yr check-up, and I snapped a couple of pictures while we waited. Poor baby, she had no idea what was coming for her (4 shots and a toe prick) She did okay though. I do think 4 shots is way too many to get at once. Just plain TRAUMATIZING. If there are that many at once again I may opt to split them up. Holding her down to get that many pokes was horrible for all parties involved! (Pay no attention to the blue trimmed socks- she had on pink leggings but they had to go for the shots).

WE LOVE YOU PAISLEY LANE! More than you could ever know!

Christmas Morning

Wow, what a whirlwind these past 2 weeks have been for us. We have had Christmas in Ohio, traveled to TN to have Christmas with family and spend some time at home, had Paisley's first birthday and party, went to Nashville to the Opryland Hotel for the TN game and New Years, then traveled back to OH. We had an amazing time at home with family and friends and we were so glad Jason was able to have some much needed time off.

Christmas weekend, we knew we couldn't go home for the holiday because Jason was on call. We invited family to come and join us and my parents and sister decided to come on up. SO glad they did! Jason's call is "home" call, meaning he is home until there is a reason to go in, so we hoped he would be home most of the weekend, considering the holiday. We were right, for the most part, however, Christmas morning he went in at 4:30am to round, and didn't get back until 11:30am! He had totally planned on being home by 7:30 or 8:00, but didn't quite make it. It worked out okay, though, because (1) my family was here, and (2) Paisley had no idea it was Christmas, so we just kept her out of the living room until Jason got home, then we had our Christmas morning fun. She loved all her gifts from Santa, and Grammy & Papaw. A few days later, we had Christmas with Gigi, Papa Ron, Momma Jean & PePaw, Grandma Spangler, Brittany, Wade, the boys, and Patrick & Jan. She loved her gifts from them, too! It was SO NICE to spend time with family and not feel rushed to go to the next house before we have to hurry home to OH. Here are a few pictures from Christmas morning.

So disappointed in a lot of the pictures I took over the break, because my camera just doesn;t take great action shots. And let's face it, if it's a picture of Paisley, it's an action shot. Not to mention, I can never get a good picture of her looking at the camera because it pre-flashes, then does the major flash, so she is blinking in all the pictures. I am going to look at camera's Friday with hoped of getting a new one for my birthday. :)