Kara and Freebie

Kara's First Birthday!

Well, my little girl is officially one! It seems like just yesterday I looked at her for the first time and fell in love. I can't believe how much this little treasure has completely taken over my heart. She is my daily joy and pleasure. It's just so hard to describe how much I love this little girl!

She has been pretty sick the last few days, running a fever almost all day on Saturday. On Monday, she just wanted to be held and lay her head on my shoulder. It was sad to see her so miserable on her birthday. She is most likely suffering from teething. But I'm worried she might also have a slight ear infection. She seems to be doing better lately.

I did want to share pictures from her first birthday party. Since Gracie, her 3 yr old cousin shares the same birthday, we combined their parties.

She didn't really care for her cupcake that much.

Daddy Daughter Time

Cute Movies

Trouble!

Well, I guess she must have figured that my tupperware cabinet needed cleaning out. She's so helpful.

You should see the mess she's made on my kitchen floor!

Mischeivious Monkey!

So in addition to discovering how cool it is to drop Cheerios from her high chair, Kara has discovered how to climb to get the stuff that mommy purposely put out of her reach...

This was the last picture I snapped before rushing to get her down. Silly kid!

Playing Piano

Play Time

Three Cute Videos of Kara

Here she is popping her mouth just like her Uncle Zack taught her to.

Here she is really snapping her fingers. The big snaps you hear are Ben's but the cute little ones are all Kara!

And here is Daddy just having fun.

Eating Cheerios!

Kara Snapping her Fingers!

Kara saw Grandma snap her fingers the other day and since then has been fascinated with finger snappin'. We caught her trying to snap her fingers and she actually made a couple of snaps. I tried to catch it on video for you. You can see that she is trying... no really good snaps though. I'll keep trying to capture a video of it.

First Tooth!!!

I found it two Sunday's ago and it's finally big enough to get a good picture of it. Check it out!

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Playing

This is just a snapshot of what our days are like. She is getting really good at moving herself around (though not quite crawling yet) and playing by herself. She pulled that breakfast puzzle down all by herself and was having so much fun playing with it. She didn't even notice me watching her till I called her name. 

She brings so much joy into our home each day. What a blessing she is to Ben and me!

Kara's First Family Camp!

Well, we took Kara to her very first Family Camp and she did just great. She was able to stay on her schedule during the days, though night time was a bit rough. It got quite chilly at night (silly ND weather), so we ended up waking up several times in the middle of the night with her trying to keep her warm and quiet so she wouldn't wake the other campers. We only ended up spending two nights out there, but it turned out to be enjoyable and memorable. It will be an annual tradition that I hope she grows to love as much as I do!

Here's some pictures of her taking her bath outside. Yes, her cousin Gabriel was jealous of how cool she was! He couldn't understand why he couldn't take a bath too.

Here's some pictures Mom took of her playing out near the baseball diamond. Kara was happy playing with a stick she found:

Until she started eating the stick and Grandma took it away! 

She showed obvious displeasure at losing her precious stick.

Grumpy Girl

She was crying cause I was trying to get her to eat her carrots.

Mommy is so mean!

First Food!

Lately Kara's been nursing every 2 hours or less. It's been making me crazy. So I've decided it's about time to start her on solids. Her first food was rice cereal.

 

She made the funniest faces:

 

But she really liked it...

Now to see how her tummy handles it.

My Little Blossom

Fun in my Swing

Kara's Laugh

Another new Softbums Print

Kara's New Softbums!

These are the new prints that Softbums recently came out with. I was the second place winner of their giveaway and recieved three basic packs in each of their new prints. More pictures to come as she gets more diaper changes. :P