Happy 1st Birthday Reese!

Reese celebrated her first birthday today, Wednesday, January 21, 2009. My oh my how the first year of her life flew by.

I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday, but I must say it does feel like forever ago that I was breastfeeding her every three hours, getting up twice a night to feed and change her, changing her many blowouts and hurrying up to dress her after her bath while she screamed the entire time.

She has been the greatest blessing in our lives and we don't know how we ever lived our life without her.

(Don't mind the date stamp...it's off by a year)

We started off the birthday celebration (which will continue through the weekend) this morning. I took the day off to spend it with Reese. She woke up bright and early at 6:50 a.m. ready to start her big day. After singing Happy Birthday to Reese, we played and watched her favorite morning shows.

For breakfast, Reese ate Eggo Whole Grain waffles for the first time along with bananas and Cheerios.

Later in the day I took Reese to her first Gymboree Play & Music class. She enjoyed playing with the toys and other kids who ranged from 10-16 months old. During the class we made clocking sounds with our tongues which is supposed to help babies communicate and learn to talk. Afterwards, Reese was making the clocking sound and continued to mimic me anytime I made the sound for the rest of the day. (Turns out, Grandma has been making this sound with her too which is why she recognized it so quickly today) At the end of the class everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to her.

After our gym class, we walked over to visit Grandma Fredda (her office is in the same parking lot). Reese got to visit with all of the ladies at Mom's office.

Here is Reese sitting and standing on Grandma Fredda's desk.

On our way home we stopped by Chick-Fil-A to get Reese her first chicken nuggets. Just like her Daddy, she loved them! I paired her chicken with real green beans and baby prunes. Yummy! Reese loves most anything we give her including veggies and fruit.

Later in the afternoon, I got a call from my Dad saying he was in Katy. Reese and I promptly packed her bags and headed West to meet him for dinner. Reese was ready for a bottle when we arrived.

Reese took a while to warm up to Papa Larry which is normal for her.

By dinner she was having a great time with him. He was showing her the number 1 with is finger teaching her how to hold up her index finger to say "I am one year old".

He also fed her a whole french fry. I am so cautious, I always break her food up into small pieces. She handled the fry just fine; luckily it broke easily and most of it fell on the floor. ;)

You can see she was having a blast on her birthday!

I sang Happy Birthday to her once more before bedtime. We are expecting a big turnout for her party on Saturday! Stay tuned for more birthday pictures.