A YEAR and a HALF! I really can’t believe how fast time is flying and how big my ‘baby’ is!

She really has grown so much in just the last few weeks. She amazes me daily with what she says and does! And in 6 months she will be 2!!!!(& it’ll be thanksgiving. 😉 Yum). Even the girls at her gym daycare were saying how much she has grown in the last few weeks. My baby is a toddler now. Time needs to slow down!

Londyn is saying so many words and putting several words together. She will repeat anything, which is scary so we definitely have to watch what we say;). She’s very good with repeating names and remembering them. We went to visit family this last week and she remembered so many names and who they were. I was very impressed. She copies basically everything we do. She will grab a makeup brush and pretend to put on her makeup, she will stretch after we stretch, she copies words that mitch will say.

She is still obsessed with Duke and ALL things puppy. She loves all dogs and always has to wave hi to them when we see them. I hope her love of dogs continues because it’s really so sweet how much she loves them.

She also loves her Papa. Both of them. She calls both grandpas “Papa”. At first I thought maybe she was confused but she definitely knows the difference between them and adores them both so much.

We left Londyn for the first time for a long weekend last month and it went great! She stayed with my parents while Mitch and I went to visit our friends Katie, Matt & Sutton in Texas. It was such a fun trip and I think long overdue to leave her with my parents for a weekend away. She did great and didn’t even really notice we were gone! And we got to meet her future boyfriend, Sutton! Who is such a good, happy baby! I can’t wait for Londyn and Sutton to meet someday soon! We have a few plans this summer/fall to leave her again with our parents for more weekends away. She loves spending time with all her grandparents we need to take more advantage of it.

Londyn knows so many of her animals and animal noises. We went to the zoo in St Louis and she would see the animal and say it’s name and the noise it makes. It was the cutest thing. I love watching her learn new things and sometimes she does things and I really have no idea how she learned how to say or do it! Within the last two weeks or so she has discovered the TV and movies… she is OBSESSED with Shrek. We legit will watch it 5 times a day. She wakes up and asks for shrek or donkey! I don’t know what her obsession is but she loves it. And she is now asking for Moana too. Which I think is such a cute movie and has great music so I need to keep expanding her movie choices.

Londyn, my mom and I went on a trip this past week to visit family in St. Louis and it was such a blast getting to see my family and having them all meet Londyn! She fit right in and became attached to one of my cousins’ little girls. Wish she lived here to be our babysitter someday 😉 We went to the St Louis Zoo, hung out with family, went to the pool, went to my cousins graduation, shopping and we were exhausted by the end of the week and ready to get home to see daddy and duke. Londyn actually did great for being off her schedule and out of her element. We took a late night flight home which was a mistake. I assumed she would easily sleep on the flight home but poor baby girl couldn’t get comfy and it was pretty miserable flight home. But we survived! Ha;)

Now that the weather is finally nice to be outside and play all Londyn wants to do is play outside. Mitch Re did a little are in our backyard for A play area for her to play. She has a water table, slide, baby pool, and mitch made her a little picnic table. So we have been spending a lot of time playing outside, eating breakfast and lunch out there!

Another fun thing that happened this past month or so was Londyn was asked to be a Flower Girl!! I am so beyond excited to see my baby girl as a flower girl. It’s always been a dream to have a little girl and someday have her be in our best friends wedding and now she is! We were very honored for her to be asked and I can’t wait!

Here are some pictures from our past couple months!

These posts are going to become few and far between but I want to continue to post them for myself to look back on. #EBabybook 😉

Little Miss is 13+ months old and she is at the most fun age! I know I said that every other month but she is so funny. We are constantly laughing at her little personality. I love that she is her own little person and she is already very strong willed and knows what she wants. And she wants it NOW;)

Londyn is running everywhere, sitting on duke, kissing every animal in sight and is just a little ‘pistol’. Mitch hates when i call her that, but it’s true she is just a firecracker and she can be so sweet and then she doesn’t get what she wants and she throws attitude. Girl life if real. I know I have all the attitude coming my way in the future. I thought it would be a little longer before it started 😉

We took Londyn to gym daycare for the first time last week (i have separation issues, that’s why it took me so long ;)) and she absolutely loved it! She was so excited to get in there and PLAY! I am so happy it went so well and it makes me feel so comfortable leaving her in there while I get a little ‘me’ time and get to workout! I want to start getting in a routine and going Multiple times a week and even try to go to some yoga classes. Hopefully she continues to love it!

We celebrated Christmas and New Years and it was the absolute best. I love being santa. Like it’s so fun to set up toys and see her face LIGHT UP! I’ll share some Christmas pictures below. It was such a fun few days seeing family and dressing up. The holidays are my favorite time of year and it is 100000x better with a little one! She makes everything better but especially Christmas.

For New Years we decided to stay in and have friends over. It was easiest that way so we could put L to bed and then still enjoy the night with our friends!

We turned our office into a play room for L and it has already gotten so much use. We weren’t sure how often she would actually go in there and play by herself but she does quite often. Londyn got a play kitchen for her birthday and it is her most used toy. She loves going in her play room and just playing and making us food. She got a teepee for Christmas from Santa and it has been fun to watch her sit in there and read books or “get cozy”. We will tell her to get cozy and she will go into the teepee and pull a blanket over her and cozy up. It’s the cutest. I hope she gets a lot of play time out of the teepee as she gets older cause I’m obsessed with it and wish i had one as a child 😉

We are starting to get back into the groove and routine now that Christmas and the holidays are over! We have Mitch’s Birthday coming up and going to Breckenridge in March. So some fun things to look forward too! I’m excited to take Londyn to Breck. It is one of my favorite places to go and I know she won’t understand it yet but hopefully she loves the snow!

Here are some pictures from our last month and also some of my favorites from our family photo session with my sister in law (Krista Parks Photography)

Some pictures from christmas & the past month:

I cant believe my baby is ONE!! This post is a few weeks late, it has been busy few weeks.

These pictures are the best I could get, this girl does not sit still! She is on the move!

Londyn is such a fun, spunky, sassy little girl! We had so much fun celebrating her birthday with all her favorite people. She is so loved and spoiled! I’ll share some photos from the party below!

This past month Londyn has been on the move, loving music and dancing and is learning so much everyday. She is so fun to watch cause she will just find toys and entertain herself for quite a while. She got a play kitchen for her birthday and she has been having fun playing with the pots & pans and play food. We tell her to make us breakfast and she will bring us some sort of food. She also got some fun music toys for her birthday and she is loving all the dancing and playing. This girl dances at any music that comes on.

She loves to be outside, she will point at the back door and watch duke from the door. The weather has been pretty nice lately so we will play outside for a little while.

She loves her bottle and will sit in her mini chair and drink it. She says baba and gets excited when we ask her if she wants a baba or wants milk.

We had a great Thanksgiving, it’s crazy to think that last Thanksgiving I was in labor with my little princess. It was nice to enjoy the food this time 😉 Londyn actually slept through dinner, (#naptime) this girl is on her own schedule, but we gave her turkey, stuffing & mashed potatoes when she woke up and she only liked the mashed potatoes!

Her actual birthday was the day after thanksgiving so we woke up and made breakfast pancakes for the birthday girl! Which was fun and she loved them! We went out to lunch for pizza for her birthday and that night went to Downtown Littleton’s lighting ceremony and saw Santa. She loved the Christmas caroling! I think overall she had a good birthday and I only cried a little 😉

We are looking forward to Christmas and all the festivities coming up! We did go on the Georgetown Train and Santa was on the Train and Londyn loved him. She kept pointing to him and just staring at him. It was fun to see! I can’t wait till she really understands who he is!

We also went to Zoo lights which was so much fun. My cousin invited us to a DU night and so the crowds weren’t bad. Londyn loved all the lights & we rode the carousel for the first time! So much fun!

It was nearly impossible getting her to lay still for this pictures. So this is the best I could get!

Londyn Bear is 11 months old! Like is this real life?!;)

I know I say this every month, but this is the best, most fun age! She is so much fun, learning new things and making us laugh nonstop. Everyday a little more of her sassy personality comes through and we are loving it. (Most of the time). She does not like to be told no, and will shake her head no back at us.

She is walking everywhere and is getting into everything! She loves music and dances anytime any sort of music comes on. She is still obsessed with Duke and will give him hugs and he will tolerate it for a minute or two.

She loves going on walks everyday in her little red wagon! Every time we go into the garage she points at it and gets excited! It’s our favorite part of the day (not looking forward to the snow).

She is starting to understand things we are saying to her or telling her. She will take my phone or the remote and I will say “can mama have that, that’s not for baby” and she will hand it right to me. If we are laughing she will start to laugh with us.. it’s like a fake laugh but it’s the cutest thing when she does it.

She is still obsessed with puppies and she will make a noise that sounds like barking to me and I will say what does the puppy say and she makes this cute noise.

She is taking great naps, loving her baths and is the pickiest eater. She loves pasta, bread and cheese (just like mom) and refuses to eat any sort of meat! We try to sneak it in to her pasta or veggies. She prefers to feed herself with the baby food pouches since she thinks she is big.

We had Londyn paint for the first time. She was more interested in the paper than the paint but it was a cute activity to have her do.

We had a fun month enjoying all the fall activities! We went to the Chatfield Botanic Gardens for the pumpkin festival. It was a nightmare! Way to many people and just wasn’t how I pictured it going. Of course we had fun and Londyn was a joy and always is the cutest thing. Next year we will chose a more low key pumpkin patch!

We got to celebrate our besties baby boy (Londyns future BF) at a beer and diaper party and Londyn just wanted to play with this puppy the entire time! We can’t wait to meet little Frank in a little over a month!

Can’t believe in a month we will be celebrating Thanksgiving and HER FIRST BIRTHDAY!!

We are in full planning mode for her birthday party and can’t wait to watch her try cake!

Baby bear is 10 months old! This is my favorite age so far and I know it’s just going to get more fun! She is just the happiest, on the go baby and we are loving every day with her.

Londyn is ALMOST walking! She has taken 4-5 steps on her own. She gets so excited to walk towards us that she only makes it 5 steps and then falls on her bum. But she is definitely ready to go! She is getting so good about playing with all her toys and entertains her self really well. It helps when I am trying to do laundry etc. She loves to push her scooter toys around and gets so excited to go all around the kitchen. She gets upset when Mitch or I try to help her and she likes to do it all by herself, like a big girl. Mitch made her a mint Vespa and it is the cutest thing when she pushes it around.

She is loving her paci (again) she went months without wanting it and basically refusing it. Now she wants it in all the time! Which I guess I should let her have it, she is still a baby! But I don’t wanna deal with a 2 year old still wanting it, so we will see!

Londyn got sick for the first time last week. And that was really rough 😦 We all ended up getting sick and it was so miserable to have a sick baby. Even though she was sick she still was the happiest baby & still wanted to play play play.

Londyn is starting to blow kisses. She loves puppies and waves at every dog we see. She is eating all types of food and loves waffles, bananas, and cheese! She is pretty picky. She doesn’t like any form of chicken, she immediately throws in on the ground (which duke loves)

She gets so excited when duke is outside and barks to come inside. She will crawl right over to me and want me to pick her up to go let him in. She really is obsessed with him. He is still coming around.

We are looking forward to her turning ONE and are planning her party… even though I don’t want it to come TOO fast.. I want her to just stay a baby a little longer. We are also looking forward to all the fun FALL activities coming up in October. Can’t wait to take her to a pumpkin patch and dress her up for Halloween! We attempted to see changing leaves and enjoy the mountains but it was too soon and too hot in Evergreen.

We had family come visit and she loved meeting all her (great) aunties and uncles! In the third picture below she is trying “nethunky” which is a yummy treat my family always makes and she seems to like it!!