We celebrated Finley’s first birthday on the weekend of June 9th. It is so hard to believe that she is
already one year old. It brings
tears to my eyes to witness just how fast time flies. All of my life I’ve heard others say “my how time flies” and
“cherish every moment of it”, but not until being a mother did I realize the
truth to those two simple statements.
Our baby is no longer a “baby”.
She is toddling around, getting into cabinets and has started to repeat more and more words that we are saying.
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| Finley's birthday cakes |
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| All the little girls and Miss Martenique |
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| Loving her new Dora couch from Grandma Phyllis |
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| Gary, Grandma and Finley |
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| Car that she got from JJ and Russlyn |
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| Happy about her big day |
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| Loving on Gram |
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| Laughing at Aunt Sarah's fun tricks |
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| Time with Uncle JJ |
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| Lots of gifts for such a small party |
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| Excited about her cake and her cousins |
The week prior to her party was monumental in the baby
world. Tuesday, June 5th,
she took her first steps. I had
been working really long hours at work that week and Wes kept her up until I
got home that night. I had
been leaving for work each day before she woke up and I was getting home after
she had already gone to sleep. But
this night they waited up on me.
Wes and I both were playing on the floor with her and she stood up and
took two steps towards us. We
clapped and cheered, we were both so excited. She looked at us like we were crazy of course. I was just glad that we both got to
witness this milestone.
(Going to insert walking video here)
This month she has been full of new words and you can tell
that she actually knows the meaning of the words that she is saying. She now says “uh-oh” when she drops a
toy, or purposely throws something onto the floor from her high chair. A word that I wish she never had
learned is “no”. She uses that
word frequently. She was pretty
much stuck on it the other night.
Any question that I asked she replied “no”. So I started asking her if she wanted some cotton candy or
cupcakes, simply things that if she knew what I was asking she would say “yes”
to. I got to “Do you want some
cheese”, a favorite of hers, and she did not say no but instead took off crawling
to the kitchen. It was pretty
funny.
One cute thing that she has started to do, or at least we
think it is funny, is when she doesn’t like something that we have put on her
high chair tray to eat she hides it beside her in her chair and acts like she
ate it so that she can get more of the things that she does like. Sneaky!
