Catch up

I cannot believe how much has happened since I last really wrote! Even without her turning 1!
Her lower left Lateral Incisor has popped up. 8 teeth! She's a really good eater. I love being able to give her what I make. Soon Tim and I are going to have to start eating at the table; so Aeryn doesn't get used to us eating on tv trays watching, well tv. We are so bad with that. I guess we are just going to have to get a DVR. I better let Tim know. ;-) Aeryn likes to drink out of straws now. She still mostly uses her sippies. For some reason I didn't want her to try soda until she could drink from a straw. Well now she has, and each time it brings on lots of funny faces. She will take a drink and then make a sour like funny face. But she will still keep drinking, and each time making a face! The first drink she took from a straw was a Pumpkin shake from Braum's. Lucky her. Unlucky me, because I have to share now.
She also has completely mastered the stairs now. She can go up and down. I feel blessed that she hasn't learned how to climb out of her crib yet. It's the only thing she hasn't climbed in the house now.
She is also walking using push toys. Well, anything that she can slide across the floor. Her favorite is her high chair. It's too cute!
Every morning I open her window shade, bring her to the window and we say hello to the world. For her birthday I printed out the Yo Gabba Gabba characters to decorate for her birthday. She really liked seeing them up. So instead of throwing them away I taped them to her window. I cannot believe how much she loves them! When she wakes up, she doesn't want to give me hugs, she wants to open the shade to see Yo Gabba Gabba. And if I forget to close her shade and bring her upstairs later, she gets so excited when she turns the corner to her room.

Birthday Oct. 19
Tim had an early day at work, so we took Aeryn to Toys R Us. Apparently I signed her up for Geoffry's Birthday Club at some point, and they sent us a coupon. She picked out a cute dolly. As part of being in the Club she got a birthday crown and balloon. I took a picture on my phone but haven't blue toothed it to the computer yet. But I will get it up at some point. I baked her cakes for the party and one for her to blow out a candle ON her birthday. It also gave her some practice for tearing into her own little one on Saturday.

Birthday Party Oct. 20
It was my first big shindig and it went so smoothly, if I say so myself. I couldn't believe it! I did scramble a little bit in the morning. I had printed out a picture on Friday and took it to Wal-Mart to be copied onto edible paper. But they wouldn't do it because the characters are copyrighted. So I took it to Target, and the person who was working didn't know how to do it, so I left the picture for the morning person. And I got a call Saturday morning saying that they couldn't do it. I printed another one and took it to Reasor's, but their machine was broken. I took it to a Food Pyramid(formerly Albertsons) and theirs was down too. So I tried one more Food Pyramid, and I got it done! Whew! Came home decorated the cakes and then did some cleaning. Luckily Tim was home to hang out with Aeryn. And he helped me out when she was napping. I am so lucky. The timing couldn't have been better. Right as the hoers derv's were coming out of the oven, people started to arrive. I served some mini spinach and artichoke bread bowls from Schwan's(I love 'em. And you know how much I love veggies.), and I made some lil' smokies wrapped in bacon, some veggies and chips with dip, and a great punch recipe I found online(I will post it soon on my recipe page). The cake turned out amazing. If it wasn't for Aeryn I wouldn't have made it. She had pulled some cookbooks out of a cabinet and I came across a cake one I'd forgotten I had. So I looked through it and found her cake. It was a cookie cake and a regular cake in one! Byron didn't realize it was a cookie at first, and thought I had burnt the cake really bad on the bottom. He's so funny! So everyone came and I had some Yo Gabba Gabba playing that I had recorded. There was some socialization and then we opened presents. I am not going to list them all, but her two faves are the bongos from Byron and Kryston, and her most fave is the zebra Gma Jessie and Papa Lee got her. And after presents we did cake. Aeryn did very well, and didn't throw a fit. I can't believe how at ease she was with everything that was going on.

I know, I still have Halloween to talk about. And some other stuff. But you will have to wait a little while. I am tired and going to bed. I promise I will do my best to have everything caught up by the end of the week. Toodles!

I'm Working On It

I want to apologize that it is taking me so long to blog about Aeryn's birthday. For now, I have done some new slide shows.
There are two different birthday slides because her birthday was on Friday and her party was on Saturday.
Be Back Soon!