Adoration

 We had a visit from a BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL fairy princess Friday morning. 

Camila was entranced! 

 

Camila Luna's First Birthday

Happy Birthday, Little One!

Here's the updated post - with comments. 

Camila's birthday was Sunday, but it was icky weather and kind of an off day for all of us. We had cake and new toys and some of her favorite foods; then we celebrated again on Monday! With water play: "fishing" for toys and "painting" with scraps of construction paper. More cake! Who doesn't love birthday cake for breakfast? We also played at the park (Camila is climbing the stairs and going down the slide by herself!!) And then a "picnic" lunch on the patio! And trike riding on the driveway.

Another New Toy

 More new wheels!!

 here it is, our ebay golf cart, arriving on the delivery truck.

That night we all went for a ride to the playground in it! Over the weekend, Jeff took it out for a round of golf - and got a hundred comments! (It is rather distinctive. LOL)

The girls and I took it to the park again this week. Very fun!

One Year

Camila is a year old this weekend. 

Wow! What a difference a year makes!! 

First of all, a year ago I looked like this: round, round, round!

Then this: happy, happy, happy!

Camila has gone from this: barely moving...

to this: barely standing still...

Some highlights from her first year

in May at 4 months old, starting to play together.

Napping together in June. (I love this picture!)

In July she learned to sit up unsupported and got to enjoy things like playing in the sand box, swings, two-handed toys! woo-hoo!! And by the time we went to Cranberry Lake she was able to crawl and play in the sand, but still spent lots of time in the Bjorn and being carried. She was sporting a funny scrunch-face-snorty-grin that cracked us all up!

by September, & about 7 months she was scooting around, enjoying her new skills and bursting with personality, and hasn't stopped blossoming!

She's playful, cheerful, clever, affectionate and expressive. She is currently working hard on learning to talk. She has some sign language and that helps immensely, but she's trying very hard to make spoken words, too. A big learning process with lots of reward!

We wish you could be here to celebrate the completion of her first year, but I am grateful that you visit us here and have watched her grow!

ps/ some cute stuff from Liv at this age: here.

Trikes

 The weather has warmed a bit. Its been about 60 these past few days. We've taken the opportunity to play outside! And that means trikes! 

Camila's trike has a handle that the adult can use to steer and assist, but Camila always wants to "pedal" so we took the handle off.

She seems ok with it! ;-)

 Liv is getting better and better at peddling and steering simultaneously!

Biking is still a lot of exploration and practice, but rewarding too!

Smily Face Pizza

 Liv got her new copy of Highlights "High Five" magazine this week. 

And Funny-Face Pizza is this months "Cook It"

 I'm pretty proud of myself for 1- taking pictures! 2- getting Liv (enthusiastically) through every step of this recipe: reading it, planning it, shopping for it, (she helped pick out the red pepper and olives), prepping the ingredients (not totally, but some... she helped make the sauce, cut the dough circles, and counted out the noses), but building was the best part!

 

 mmm... Soooo good!

Run, Run, Zzzzz

 The other night we experienced that just-before-bed-time burst-of-energy
and the girls took off running. Or Livvie did, and Camila tried to keep up. 

 

Success!

Sleepy kiddos!