Logan Learns To Fake It

Hear the fake cough? She's practicing hard for 6-8 years down the road when she's "cough, cough" too sick to get school done. She picked this up all on her own, by the way. Sigh. It's started.

Party Party Party!

All I can say after this birthday party is, thank goodness birthday's only roll around once a year! HA! I think that it's because I'm so detail oriented and am SUCH a perfectionist (in the good and bad way) that it took forever to plan and execute this party...and to think, she won't even remember it! Oh, well. I'm very happy with the way that it turned out and I'll remember it and remind her with pictures. I've split the post in two--the first half is with the party details so you can feel like you were right here with us and the second half is with pictures of the birthday ballerina.

Logan and mommy showing off the birthday spread:

A close up of the pink and yellow details:

Here's the big people cake:

I spent ALL DAY Friday making these guys from scratch and now know I'll probably just order cakes in the future! By the time it was all done I had no desire to even eat a piece.

And here is Logan's smash cake. I definitely had to monogram it!

The sweet's set up:

My mom and I made the chocolate 1's to match the color scheme, they were such a fun project! We also had a lot of pink and yellow candy to match. The pink candy was super easy to find with valentine's day right around the corner but yellow candy just doesn't exist in large quantities! We were pretty much limited to jelly bellies.

The bags with the custom sticker toppers for people to fill with candy:

And here is the start of the birthday ballerina pictures!

Logan was very shy and kept her finger in her mouth like this most of the afternoon. She's started really sucking on the one (or two, sometimes) fingers quite a bit and we're not sure if it's the teething or if she's doing it to comfort herself.

And the sweet ballerina feet, already standing on her toes!

Logan decided that since she's one, coffee is definitely a necessity.

Watching the happenings from her own chair.

Rocking back and forth on the ground in excited anticipation of her party:

Birthday cupcake bootie!

Did you really just take that picture, mom?

We stripped her down to her diaper and bib for her smash cake. She loved hearing everyone sing to her!

A little skeptical but decided to go ahead and try:

And this lasted all of five seconds before she realized her hands were dirty and she couldn't stand it. She's such a girl, I love it!

Our family after the impromptu cleanup:

She was happy when she was clean again.

But insisted on being naked for most of the rest of the party.

I finally was able to get the onesie back on her toward the end and she was WIPED OUT!

1st birthday party was a success!

Happy First Birthday To You!

Happy birthday to you sweet little girl!

You have been on this earth for a whole year now! Here's what you're up to:

- You have four teeth, two on the bottom, two on the top and you're LOVING chewing your food with those four teeth! Your top canine teeth are about to pop through, too. We can't seem to catch a teething break.

- You wear size 4 diapers (again, usually you're in cloth, so we don't see much of those)

- You wear size 12 month shirts, 18 month pants, 18 month and 2T PJ's depending on what brand we've got BUT you still are in 3-6 month shoes- you have itty bitty feet like your momma!

- You smile all the time, we know you aren't feeling well if you haven't flashed a billion smiles in an hour. You are a very happy little girl and are always content.

- We've pretty much switched you to table food now since you eat so much better when you're sharing a plate with mommy. So far, you've loved everything we have given you!

- You started taking a sippy cup of whole cow's milk in the morning and afternoon.

- You started REALLY motoring around on your first birthday. You had taken about 4-5 steps before that but we started getting long lines of walking on your actual birthday-it was SO fun!

- You can say several words: bye bye, night night, mama, daddy, go, no, yeah.

You're just the light of our eyes and we love you so much! If you could just slow down on getting older, that would be great. :)

Here are some pictures from Logan's actual birthday:

Logan got to have a whole cup of ice cream for her birthday since we didn't have cake (I didn't want it to make her sick and then not have it for her party):

She gobbled the whole thing up!

Logan got to skype with her grandparents and her Aunt Kimmy while she opened her presents from them:

Then she opened the rest of her gifts:

She loved to look at the cards:

We had such a great day and we SO look forward to many more years with our girl!

Our Little Walker

As promised, we finally got Logan walking on video! With extra hands here this weekend we had my dad to man the camera while we coaxed her all weekend to give us a good, long walk. She really got the hang of it this weekend and walks from one end of the room to the other. I know I owe everyone a birthday and birthday party blog post and I promise, I'm working on them! They'll be up in the next day or two. :)

Labor of Love

Last year, my labor of love was intense and painful but produced this beautiful girl:

This year, I had a different kind of labor of love. Logan got a beautiful toddler bed from her grandparents for her birthday and after looking through hundreds (seriously) of bedding sets for toddler beds, I decided I needed something a little less commercial. So, naturally, I turned to all things etsy and found several that I really liked but at $75-80 a piece, definitely could not afford (I mean, come on, it's for a tiny little bed she'll be in for a couple of years). So, I headed the fabric store, spent less than $15 and got started.

Now, all of this had to be done while the munchkin was asleep or otherwise occupied with daddy because (as you'll see below), she can be a bit destructive. I took out my handy dandy scissors, cut my squares (over 100 of them):

Added the batting and took a more artsy shot:

Quilted for HOURS:

Laid out my pattern:

Pattern was destroyed by said toddler monster:

RE-laid out the pattern:

Sewed it together:

Then began the two hour process of fringing it to make it a "rag quilt." There are no pictures of this because you'd basically see me making a bunch of nasty faces asking why I decided this was the best route to go. :) BUT, I am in love with the result and am glad that I did decide to go with it.

You know who else loves it?