Spring Days and Lounging Around the House

I've published several updates today. If you're looking at the time stamp, you'll realize that they've all been published during the Sunday session of the Masters. I really have no desire/care in the world to watch the Masters, but Chip's enjoying it. I thought I'd take this time to update the blog.

Jo loves the beads that her Aunt E brought to her from Mardi Gras. She will play with these for hours. She started stacking them on and just didn't stop.
I had to stop her to get this picture, but she was pretty tangled up in them when she was finished. She started to crawl away with all the beads on, it really didn't work very well though.Below is Jo's first taste of Hot Tamales. She liked them. She loves anything with cinnamon. I thought these would be too hot, but she didn't seem to mind.

Here she is trying to get some out for herself. Her chubby hands could grab the Hot Tamales in the box, but she couldn't pull her hand out without losing the candy. It was altogether frustrating for the baby.

Here she is trying to "get" the camera.

One of her new faces is the one below. She must have learned it at daycare, because we didn't get her to start doing it. When she does the face below we just LAUGH because it is SO funny. She laughs and then she'll do it again. She's such a ham! She loves to entertain us. (The shirt she's wearing is from daycare. She made a mess on the shirt we sent her in and all her extra clothes were long sleeved - the shirt she's wearing is a 4T and way too big on her, but she was so cute in that extra large shirt!)

Here's Jo sitting in the chair Papa and Winnie got for her. She's trying to be an Indian - I guess...

She loves her chair. She reclines and rocks in it. Chip and I will put her in the chair early in the mornings before she goes to school so she can drink her milk and watch Curious George. She LOVES to see what trouble George gets in to!

That's our chunky monkey!!

Jo's FIRST BIRTHDAY!

We had her birthday party on April 3rd. Chip and I spent a lot of time preparing for the party. You know you really only do it for the adults, but it's just so fun for us and one day she'll look back and enjoy it. Here she is checking out her happy birthday sign - she really liked the butterflies we cut out of scrapbooking paper.
Jo with Mommy!

Jo with Daddy!

Those are the only pictures we have from her birthday party! I was so busy trying to make sure stuff was in order and everyone was happy, I guess I didn't really think about taking any more pictures. I did get a lot of video tape of us singing her "Happy Birthday" and her eating her first birthday cupcake, I also got the whole gift unwrapping escapade on tape. I still haven't played with my video camera enough to see how to upload and edit video, so that'll just be something you'll have to come to our house if you want to see it!!

Pre-Birthday Fun

I wanted to make a cake for Jo's birthday with a silicone cake mold I got for Christmas. It didn't turn out as I expected, but I thought the cake would be good practice for Jo for her first birthday. She made much more of a mess with this cake than she did with her real birthday cupcakes!
She was trying to share some with me! How generous.

I had to get a good shot of her hands. She was FILTHY. She did NOT want me to clean her off either - that was her icing and she worked hard to get it all over herself! :)

A cute shot of the aftermath.