Getting so big

We took Maycee in for her 1 year old well check the other day. She now weighs 18 lbs and is 27 in. long, putting her in at about the 5th percentile for about everything. She broke her first tooth just in time to eat her birthday cake, and her second one is now poking through. She loves walking along the sides of the furniture and walls, and has even taken a few steps by herself. I keep catching her lifting the toilet seat up and trying to stick her hands in the water (she already loves to do it with the dog bowl.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor,
I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door.
I knew that it was something that I'd seen most every day,
but this time when I saw it there I wanted it to stay.
Then tears welled up inside my eyes, I knew it wouldn't last
for every mother knows her children grow up way too fast.
Just then I put my chores aside and held my children tight.
I sang to them sweet lullabies and rocked into the night.
Sometimes we take for granted,all those things that seem so small
.Like one of God's great treasures...A small hand print on the wall.
~Author Unknown

Maycee turned 1 year old on Sunday! I can't believe how fast time has flown by and how big my little baby is getting. We love her more and more each day, she is truly our little miracle. Happy Birthday Maycee!

We had a little Birthday lunch with some family on Sunday. Since Maycee loves rice, we decided to have Hawaiian haystacks. She thought they were pretty good.I made Maycee a My Little Pony Cake. I think the only person who ate all of the frosting was Maycee...the rest of us couldn't handle all of the sugar.

Maycee attacked the cake! She ate it so fast that I didn't even have time to get a picture of the "before", just the after. She LOVED it and wanted every last crumb.

Christmas 2008

We had a fun and busy Christmas this year. We started off with heading up to Salt Lake to visit my family for a few days. Of course the day before we were to leave, we had a freak snow storm here in Vegas that closed everything including the airport down. Luckily everything was up and running by the time we were to leave. (Except for a few minor details like not having a pilot to fly our plane, or getting stuck on the runway for three hours while they tried to figure out how to de-ice a plane with only warm water. ) We had fun being with family but had to be back for Tylers work. We waited for Tyler to get home from work on Christmas before we opened presents. Maycee was so cute opening her presents, although it was mostly the paper that she was most excited about. Then it was off to St. George to be with Tylers family for a few days. While we were there we also celebrated my 27th birthday! The day after we got home, we found out that Tyler's uncle had passed away, so back off to Salt Lake we went (this time driving in a horrible snow storm.) Although it was a quick trip, it was nice to be with both families once again.

PIcture with Santa

We took Maycee to get her picture with Santa while we were in Salt Lake. I totally expected her to cry since she won't really go to anyone, let alone some old guy dressed in a funny red suite. To our surprise she sat on his lap, let us get a picture and then was still all smiles for a few minutes after while she took it all in. When we took her off Santas lap, she wanted to wave at all the others who were still standing in line. What a cuttie.

10 months old

Maycee turned 10 months old on the 25th. She just started to crawl a couple of weeks ago and is now a pro at it. At first she acted so offended that we were not carrying her from place to place and would cry with every little crawl that she would make. Then she figured out that she could get from one toy to another and thought that was pretty neat. Now there is no stopping her, she loves to go up the stairs to our kitchen, but wants to lunge off of them to get back down. We havn't quite mastered the coming back down part yet. She still doesn't have any teeth, but has the cutest gummy smile ever! I havn't downloaded a picture for this post but I'll get some up soon.

Laundry?

The other day I had just finished folding laundry, I turned around for 2 seconds and came back to this. Maycee had rolled over to all the folded clothes and demolished my piles in a blink of an eye. She isn't very good at entertaining herself too often, so I let her go at it. Heck, I would fold clothes all the time if would keep her entertained the way it did that day.

Happy Halloween!!

Maycee spent her first Halloween as a Bee. We went to our ward trunk-r-treat on Thursday night and then ordered pizza and handed out candy on Halloween.

We decided to wait until it got closer to Halloween to carve our pumpkins...little did we know that they would be rotten and moldy the day after we carved them. I guess jack o lanterns just arn't cut out for Vegas heat.