Happy 1st Birthday, Margot!

the birthday girl with her cousins, Madeline and Davis

I added this one, just to show off the adorable bandanna skirts that my sister-in-law, Dawn, just whipped up for the girls and put in the mail once she knew it was a barnyard themed party. I'm trying to encourage Dawn to start her own business, I'll keep you posted with ordering details if she does!

(ps. Eloise received this baseball glove, I'm not sure if her dad wasn't more excited than she was)

So, even though Margot seems to love sweets, it took her quite awhile to start to dig in to her little piggy cake. She eventually figured it out and loved it...and the attention. Every time someone clapped for her or just basically said "hi" she would throw her hands up in the air with a big cheesy grin. TOO CUTE!

We can't believe how fast this year has gone. Margot, you are such a joy and we take great delight in you and cherish you dearly!! Happy Birthday our sweet little babe!

A few more of the Muellers

Here are a few more shots of our time together....Poor little Eli was very sick the entire week with a stomach bug. We managed to keep the rest of the crew healthy, thankfully! I couldn't help but take pictures of Eli, who was clearly out numbered by girls and girl stuff, in Margot's heart pajamas.

This was a 'make a silly face' contest.

This is her scary dinosaur face......rrrrrrooooaarrrrr!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had quite the dress-up tea party! Our friends from Paris, the Muellers (sans Daniel) were visiting for the week. Sarah and Daniel have two little ones that are pretty much exactly the same ages as our kids. The girls were each others very first friends in Paris and had fun looking back at pictures of when they were babies together. So, Grandma and Pops arrived and brought the party with them-we got all dolled up(mostly goodwill treasures and some homemade hats from Grandma)and loved it! The dress that I'm wearing is the very same one that I wore to my 10th grade Sweetheart dance, 17 YEARS AGO (hence the awesome style)!

We decorated cookies....or should I say added some cookies to gobs of frosting and sprinkles. Notes that the shades never left the girls' faces.

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Our neighbor, Amanda, came to check out our fabulousness. She loves to play with the girls and give me grocery-shopping-kid-free-time....she's SO wonderful and the girls and I adore her!

Analise enjoying her hand of sprinkles

Enjoying our PB&J tea party

And, of course, it's not a party without dancing!

Thank you so much, Grandma! We love you!

my sweet little one

Margot loves to cuddle and still prefers to be in my arms most of the time even though she's starting to cruise around more and more. This first picture is a view I see a million times throughout my day. She loves to crawl over and pull up on my leg and then beg to be picked up. The other funny thing that's in this picture is that her hands are always full of little toys. She will try to pick up as many as possible and then when her hands are full, she'll start going after toys with her mouth...even in the bathtub.

Dress-up

We've been playing a lot of dress up lately (the best is yet to come, see the valentine's day post whenever I can get it done). These first two pictures are such a classic moment between the girls. Eloise, "Here, Margot, look at this..." Margot (who loves to pull up but can't yet stand)does so-then Eloise bolts and leaves Margot to crash. They are playing (and fighting) together more and more which is so much fun. We weren't sure Eloise was ever going to come around to the idea of having a little sister!

Margot was happy most of the time, I promise, the other pictures just weren't in focus.