Happy Birthday Edyn Girl! It doesn't seem like its been a year since this sweet little girl joined our family. I'm so glad that this year on her birthday I wasn't in a labor room waiting for her to make her arrival! It was much more fun getting ready for her party and certainly a lot less painful.
We had a small family get together for her first birthday and it was a lot of fun. I would say the year has flown by but truth be told, I'm kind of glad she is bigger now. She was a pretty difficult baby and is SO much easier now that she is older, takes a bottle, isn't teething, and will let other people take care of her and hold her. This easy going little girl is almost nothing like the sweet terror we had in our house 4 months ago! As Kevin mentioned last week when we were thinking of something we could get her, "We should be giving ourselves presents for surviving her first year!" This is true, it didn't help we also remodeled our kitchen about the time she was teething and living in our room with the fridge and no running water. But I'll save the gory details of that for another post.
Isak and Lucy were very excited for Edyn's birthday. Especially Lucy who has a birthday coming up in a few weeks and everytime I would mention Edyn's birthday would respond with, "and Lucy's birthday?" They helped me decorate, make her cake, and wrap her present.
Edyn loved all her presents and Isak and Lucy were very helpful in "helping" her open them all and them playing with them with/for her. Especially this cute little barn that you put balls in the top and they come out the bottom and it lights up and plays songs. Lucy loves it so much that she has carried it with her everywhere and has been sleeping with it. Edyn really loves it as well but so far gets to play with it when Lucy is in timeout for not sharing or when Lucy decides to share and not go to timeout. Lucy's birthday is next month, I have a feeling she's going to be VERY excited about the whole thing :).
We had a little breakfast first and then let Edyn open her presents and then did cake. Edyn also enjoyed the cash she got from Grandma Grimmett.
Edyn really loved her cake and dove right in. I made her a little smash cake and the kids decorated it for her. I think they used to bottles of sprinkles. They were quite proud of it and Edyn thought it was delicious.
I attempted to make Edyn a polka dot cake with colored cake balls on the inside. It kind of turned out, probably would've worked better if I had used white cake mix instead of one from scratch. I elected to use what we had instead of making a trip to the store so it was a smorgasboard of random ingredients. In the end, Edyn didn't care and I didn't want any leftovers so it worked out perfectly!
Edyn was exhausted after her party and wore her birthday suit after drenching her clothes in frosting. She is such a light in our family and a cuddly, sweet girl. At one year old she is:
*taking 5-6 steps at a time but still prefers to crawl everywhere
*LOVES Isak and can say/scream his name really well. He pays the most attention to her and plays with her a lot so I'm guessing this why she loves him so much versus Lucy who just takes her toys away all day. They will have their moments as well I am sure.
*Really likes music and will start to dance and shake whenever she hears a beat.
*Can say mama, dada, Isak, no, yea, bottle, hi, and probably more that we can't understand.
*Naps twice a day and sleeps all night. (YEA!)
*Takes a bottle of whole milk (hallejuia, this girl didn't take bottles til November. I almost cried I was so happy). Eats everything, really likes pears, peaches, bananas, applesauce, toast, eggs, chicken, taco meat, cooked peppers, macaroni, spaghetti, yogurt melts. I think she didn't like my potato soup.
*Still has her umbilical hernia that hopefully will go away once her abdominal muscles strengthen.
*Loves her mom and dad more than anyone. Such a sweet natured and happy little girl and we love having her in out family!
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