Rebecca and the Birthday Cake

Rebecca with her "1" pancake for her first Birthday. I put it on her tray and as soon as I did...

she ate it. I was just lucky to have caught the first picture.

My "Happy" Happy Birthday girl.

The last two are pictures of her eating her Birthday cake. And, as you can tell by the pictures, she loved it!

Rebecca's First Birthday

Here's Rebecca, warming up to the idea of the present thing.

At first, she wasn't so sure.

Here was my attempt to get a picture with her and her birthday cake. Before I could snap the picture she got some frosting. Thus the picture.

Picture of the Birthday dinner.

Rebecca and her baby doll, which she loves.

Happy Birthday to my darling, baby girl.

Emily's First Piano Recital

Here's Emily with her piano teacher after her first recital. She was very excited about it.

Swimming

This was Rebecca's first time in the pool. She was the best little learner. She remembered a lot of what she'd learned and by the time we went swimming again she was very comfortable with putting her own face in the water. She's even beginning to blow bubbles, which is absolutely adorable because it's more like blowing raspberries and she'll start in the water and then blow them at me. She thinks it's funny because I laugh because it's cute.

My sister was with us attempting to help me teach the girls to swim. She's given us up in despair.

A Reader and a Talker

Emily is really enjoying reading. She loves to read now. She reads by herself and here she is reading to her sister. I love it.

One random picture of the best Daddy with two of his beautiful daughters.

Rebecca is talking on my phone. She says, "Hi!", as she puts it up to her ear. She'll walk around the house with it saying, "hi, hi, hi." When we play peak-a-boo she says, "Hi!" When Daddy comes home she says, "Hi!", with her fabulous great big smile. She's so funny. She's so social and yet she doesn't want anyone but Mommy. She will walk around the room at church and sit there and stare down a person until they look at her and smile and then she'll just give them when of her great big smiles back. And then she runs back to me. Let's just say, I love being the favorite.

Meredith's Birthday

This post is over a month late, but life has been busy. Busier than normal anyway. But she had a very happy Birthday. I took her to the zoo, than McDonalds, than to the grocery store to get party food, and then we had an ice cream pie and presents when Daddy got home. Emily said it was the best Birthday ever. So, I figure we made it a fairly special day. I love the very dramatic faces that Meredith makes. She's beginning to be a very good helper. I mean, before she could be when she wanted to be, but she's starting to get out of the phase and just be a good helper. Which is such a relief to me since Emily will be starting school in the fall.

Anyhow, here is Meredith and her very dramatic faces on her special day.

She's 1!

(I found this post that hadn't ever been published. Oops.)

These aren't pictures from her B-day. I still have to get them off the camera! But she had fun.

She started walking around 9 1/2 months and by 10 months she could stand up all by herself and walk 12 steps or so. A few days later she decided that if she fell she was going to get right back up and walk. After that crawling was history.

She says, "Dahyee" for Daddy. She says, "mama" most of the time for Mommy and sometimes says, "Mahyee". "Hi" sounds like hi with an extra "ee" at the end. She also makes some sort of sound for "thank you". She's trying to mimic my animal sounds. She loves her sisters and follows them everywhere. I love to see her try to play with a toy that the girls have just deserted. One day Emily had made a little bed/pillow out of a blanket for her babydoll and covered her with a blanket and then left it there. Rebecca came over, took off the blanket, picked up the baby doll and walked away with it. Then she came back, put the baby doll exactly where she had found it and then attempted to cover the baby doll with the dolly blanket. She's learned so much so fast because of following two sisters around.

It's also rare for her to leave in a hair bow, so I enjoy them while they last. :)



We took this toy out of storage around 10 1/2 months. I had to show her how to sit down on the chair, but after that she had it and loves to sit down and bob her head/body to the music. She will bounce to any music, even the hymns at church. She also started