Birthday Girl

My baby girl is one year old!  Brylee is an absolute joy, everyday with her is amazing.  She is so much fun, exhausting, but lots of fun.  She is now running everywhere and climbing on everything.  The climbing usually involves her jumping off of things which was a painful lesson for both mommy and Brylee.  She is little Miss Independent.  She refuses to ride in the stroller anymore, she also now hates the shopping cart.  She would much rather explore the world on her own two feet.  Bry can now say mama, dada, hi and has several signs.
She can also mimic words we say sometimes like baby.

                                             

Brylee is a very busy girl, she is never still.  Her cuddles last for about ten seconds. She loves giving hugs though.  Her personality is very much that of an extrovert, she loves to be surrounded by people.  When she sees another kid/baby she goes right up to them.  More often than not she grabs them and they end up falling to the ground.  I went to someone's house the other day who had a two girls one was three and the other just a week younger than Brylee.  The baby sat on her mom's lap, trying to avoid Brylee.  Bry had a blast with the three year old, they chased each other and she was laughing so hard.  I love play dates with older kids.  There are several babies her age but Brylee is a little too much in their faces.  She loves playing with them but they aren't so sure of her. Her best friend is a little boy named Owen he's about a month older than her.  They are so cute to watch, they make each other laugh so hard.

Being her mama is an absolute joy.  She is filled with so much happiness and love.  Anywhere we go Brylee makes somebody's day. She smiles and waves at everyone.  I don't think she has ever been scared of any person, she will go up to anyone.  If I could describe Brylee in three words they would be: independent, spunky, and joyful!

I never imagined how much having a baby would change me.  I absolutely adore my little girl, she is such a a joy to me.

 Brylee's birthday was a lot of fun. I'm kind of obsessed with owls.  Bry's room is decorated with owls, so naturally her birthday theme was owls.

I went really simple on cake decorating.  originally I wasn't going to decorate her cake because I was just going to top it with coconut cream.  Last minute I decided to decorate it like I did the cupcakes, and I think it turned out pretty cute.

I made her a gluten free sugar free cake.  The plan was to use coconut cream for the frosting. Unfortunately, the cream didn't separate so I resigned myself to using...gasp... actual frosting.  It was her first taste of processed/ junk food.  I'm usually pretty crazy when it comes to what Brylee eats.

Brylee wasn't too sure of her cake.  I thought she would dig right in.  Grandma tried to give her a taste of the frosting, which she immediately spit out.  Brylee definitely enjoyed the cake more than the frosting!  I guess my craziness in insisting she eat only healthy foods has paid off!

 I made Brylee a birthday ouotfit.  I spent hours making a cupcake onesie. The top part of the cupcake was 3D...and the second I put it on her she spit up all over! Oh well...she still looked dang cute!

Grandpa Les and Grandma Nan joined the party via Skype.

Brylee loves paper and ripping paper so I though she would just love to unwrap presents.  That was definitely not the case.  She just wanted to play with all of her guests, not open presents.

Brylee keeps us busy and we love every minute of it.  We especially love that she is now sleeping through the night, only took a year! Reflecting back I realized that first year went way too fast.  I just want to slow time down so she can stay my baby a little longer.