Happy Birthday to Me

And just like that, my first year is history.  Aside from getting a tiny bit taller, I am exactly the same as I was at 11 months. No new teeth, word count remains zero, I still love all food, and I still wake up every 3-4 hours at night to eat. 

We celebrated with a great party. Mom says not to get used to these kinds of birthday parties because I won't see another one like it. And anyone who knows my mom knows she isn't lying. So I savored every minute of it. As always, Miss Traci provided the birthday costume. If you look in my mouth in the pictures, I was also eating the hot pink tutu. No one noticed until the pictures busted me.

My new bike. I just need to grow about 6 more inches

My amazing jungle animal cake. The top was mine, and everyone else shared the bottom. We could even eat the animals

Kenra teaching me to use the blow toy

I think I got it

More decorations than this house has ever seen

My cake

Yum

My friends

My extended family couldn't make it out but they will get to celebrate with me soon. My grandparents in Indiana sent me money to use later

ripping open the card

And my grandparents in California obviously can't wait to take me to the American Girl store. Check out the fancy way AG sends gift cards

I got lots of other great gifts too.  Big kid toys are so much more fun than teethers and rattles. 

Thank you to everyone who made this such a memorable year. To say it was eventful for the Keller family is quite an understatement. Life is Good.

Up next...my first Spring Break trip. 

ALOHA!

alexa

Year One in Pictures- part 2

Sorry for the delay between posts. I thought mom had done a better job organizing the pictures but she uses 2 cameras, changed phones in Dec, and has 2 laptops they are stored on. Once we actually find the pictures, they need to be uploaded from iPhoto to Picasa. Exhausting! But we are now caught up and have lofty goals not to let that happen again. So here goes the next six months. Enjoy

September

Still wanting to sleep in my rocker bed

They can't make me sleep here

Standing with help

The big day

October

Crawling on all surfaces

Scary!

Michael's 18th birthday

The White House

November

Cousins

More cousins

Hayley's 16th Birthday

Standing well

December

Ready to walk

Snow

Drew's 13th birthday

January

Walking full time- even in moon boots

Yum

Yum

February

Skiing

Dancing

Ready to jump

Eating out

Brandon's 12th birthday

Never outgrowing the blue thing

March

One Year Old!

...lots more birthday pics to come... in the next post