Jayden's 1st Birthday

I can't believe my baby girl is one! We had a low key party to celebrate. For her birthday meal on her birthday we ordered pizza and she really enjoyed it.

We had her birthday party on the 30th, the following Sunday. I'm not really huge yet into the whole "theme" party but it had a slight little mermaid flair to it with a little princess thrown in since the Little Mermaid was a princess and all.

Don't let the grin fool you, she did not like her crown one little bit! There was about 50 pictures of her scowling and trying to take it off and only 2 of her smiling.

She was eating very daintily until Daddy showed her it was ok to make a mess. She never did get quite as messy as Trevor did on his first birthday. She ate pretty much the entire smash cake by herself. I don't know how she ate that much. I tried a couple of times to take it away but she got mad so I let her keep at it. Your only 1 once right? Surprisingly very little got on her high chair or the floor.

Trevor thought the cake was yummy too!

Easter

 

We spend Easter at Grandpa G's house.  Grandma H came along too because she had come up with the intention on us taking the kiddos for their first Easter Egg hunt.  That didn't happen because it was really cold and SNOWED!  Granted Easter was early this year but good grief!

We also planned to dye Easter eggs but those plans were thwarted as well.  I'll not go into details about it but I was a little annoyed and by the time we were going to do it, it was too late in the day and the kids were going to need to get to bed.

I took a ton of pictures and the kids ate a ton of chocolate and candy.  It was a fun day and I dressed the kids up in their Sunday best!  It was nice to spend the day with family.  Trevor acted up some and didn't want his picture taken but for the most part they were both pretty good.

     

That's my mom holding Jayden, She's Grandma H.  Notice all the snow on the ground!

  Checking out the goods.  The stuff that is in your sisters basket is always better!

    What a lovely "hat" you have.  Jayden loves chocolate!  The "hat" is just a little too small for Trevor.

  MMMMM chocoate induced coma.         

Just playing around

Here's a digi-layout I did. No it isn't Trevor's birthday. It was just the picture I was inspired to scrap. I used freebie kit from Jenlin designs. I love her new bennymac kit. I used a part of her freebie. I'm planning on getting her kit soon. Alpha is jeans by MissScrap. I'm really trying to get motivated to scrap more.

Our first play group

It was a nice outing overall. We went to the mall and he played on their indoor playground. It's right by the escalators and he enjoyed watching people go up and down. There was a gray haired lady coming down and he said rather loudly in a greeting to her, "Hi pa-ma." I guess that must be a universal term for someone who's old enough to be his grandma or grandpa. He calls Grandma H that when we talk on the phone and called Grandpa G that the other day when visiting. Anyway... the lady grinned and seemed to think it was funny. And he said it probably 5 or 6 more times later when we shopping as we walked towards or past people.

His greeting to everyone these days including me is, "Hi Dawn, how are you?" in a sing-song voice. He said it a few times in the play area and again to pretty much everyone we encountered while shopping afterwards. He picked it up I suppose from Travis' greeting when I come home from work. He's been saying this every time I walk in the door and I tell him, "no, I'm Mommy" and he grins. I thought it was just a greeting for me until we took him to the Dr last week and he said that to everyone in the waiting area. He kept everyone entertained, people thought it was hilarious.

And lastly his new little trick when were were in the play area is catch-me-if-you-can, a favorite of all children it seems. He would stand by the entry way and wait until I looked at him then he would take off. At first it was just wandering, then he realized I would chase after him. Game on I suppose. Grrrrr. So much for relaxing and chatting with friends. Apparently the person who designed the play area is not a parent. They put the seating along the opposite side of the entry way, which by the way is completely open so no way to coral the kiddos in. I was so worried he would run off when I was distracted by Jayden and I wouldn't be able to find him.

The kiddos were good while we wandered the mall. It was the first time I'd taken both of them shopping at the mall by myself. Our double stroller is massive and a pain to push because it steers really poorly. Some aisles were extremely difficult to maneuver. I was happy to find a brag book style desk frame to sit on my desk at work so I can put mini digi-scrap brag book pages in it. I've been looking everywhere for one. I also got spring coats for the kiddos. I can't wait for the weather to get better!