Mothers Day + visiting the cottage for the first time since last summer + a week with Grandma and Grandpa Jolly + a weekend with dad alone + exploring Wayzata + exploring the backyard + learning new words by the minute + still not walking= a busy May + start to June.
Here are some fun pictures from the past six weeks.
Stella's Mother's Day Gift from school
Happy Great-Grandma + Grandma's day brunch
Enjoying Mother's Day outside
my favorite
Dress up as your hero day - elmo for sure
dinner at Benjamin's new house in Appleton
weekend fun in Green Bay!
this picture warms my heart
Lucy's birthday... lots of happy kiddos!
first ice cream truck!
Memorial Day fun in Door County! My new toy!
some good looking grandma's at the cottage!
nothing better than bathing in the sink!
"Pappa" Jolly makes her laugh
Week of fun in Green Bay while Mom and Dad are on vacation!
my new favorite thing- imitating dad working!
upgraded to a table at school!
wednesday night happy hour on the porch!
happy father's day!
Stella also knows has taken imitation to a whole new level...she loves to "put makeup" on with mommy in the morning and imitate dad hard at work on his computer...
The big weekend trick eric taught her is to hold up one finger and say one when she's asked how old she is. We should enroll her into Harvard already, genius in the making. Now, if we could just get her to walk....
I've been lagging in my recording... we have had such a fun past two months with our little Toddler... she's so quickly become a 14 month old that LOVES to talk {hmm...where could she have gotten that from}, is super curious about walking, prefers to only do it with her push toys, and is still not walking on her own.
Eric and I are in awe every day as she seems to pick up a new word and POINT at everything...
Mama, Dada, Jackie, "ax" {Max her friend at school}, Aiden {her crush at school she always is smiling at and waving to}, Mimi {her teacher Jaime}, HI {and she says it to everyone}, ball, owl, baby, belly, peeease {please}, aja {with a finger point of course - her word for everything else}, bubbles, some animal sounds {raar}.
Stella visited the Delta Sky Club twice in April - we should get her a frequent flier card!
First trip - She went to Colorado earlier in the month to visit Uncle C... who taught her how to high five!
She did awesome on the plane, standing up pulling on the seat and saying hi, waving and smiling to everyone! We went to Beaver Creek for some awesome skiing, hanging with her crazy aunts and uncle C, and becoming a little apres ski bunny!
She looks so much bigger on Uncle C's couch this year!
Walking in the village with Auntie Em.
Cranky Stella.
Next up... a trip to Scottsdale Arizona two weeks later with her boyfriend Benjamin! She wasn't so sure of that big bath tub {the pool} at first, but took more of a liking to it the second day {glued to mom of course}. We had a great time playing with the Colvin's + DeRuyters!
They wouldn't cooperate with smiles...
This goes down as one of my favorite pics ever of her.
So hard to believe our little princess turned one a few weeks ago! She has gone from a sweet, happy baby to laughing, talking toddler it seems to be overnight. Where did the time go?! Her favorite words are Dada, Mama, Jackie and, of course, ELMO. She loves Elmo. She can sign "all done", food and more... not going to lie, Eric and I had to brush up on learning the words they are teaching her in daycare. She is eating pretty much anything we put in front of her, but I am pretty sure she'd live on mac n' cheese daily if she could. She sticks her whole fist full of mac n' cheese in her mouth no problem. Move over bottles and formula, we've got sippy cups and whole milk to take on now. She really did a great job during the transition. Mommy, on the other hand is having a hard time letting go of my little baby and accepting the fact that we have a toddler on hand!!
At her 1 year checkup she was 20lb 10oz (43% percentile) and 30" long (80% percentile). We've got ourselves a tall and skinny lady apparently.
Here are some pictures from her birthday party! Turns out, she has her fathers sweet tooth. The cupcake was a little easier to handle and a little less intimidating than the cake. Note to self.....
