Leah 14 Months Old

Leah, right now at 14 months, you weigh 21.5 pounds and are 32 inches tall. You are growing and changing so quickly! You wear size 12-18 month clothes, size 4-5 shoes, and size 3 diapers.

This month you have started to experiment more with talking. You have started to use mama, dada, and bye bye more so with the purpose of communicating instead of just babbling. You also have started regularly saying the word "hot" or "ha" (you don't really have the T down) when I am trying to keep you away from the open hot oven or when your food is still hot. When you want to try out a new word, you whisper it. I didn't actually realize this until your daddy pointed it out saying that he used to do the same thing?! I had been thinking for a while that I was just imagining it because whenever I would try to get you to say a word; I would see your mouth move like you were saying the word, but I wouldn't hear anything and you wouldn't repeat yourself.  Now that I know what you're doing, it makes me feel less crazy. :)  You have tried forming several words - like kitty cat, water, and light - but you only try them once in a whisper voice. It's pretty neat to see you experiment with talking!

You have also started showing more understanding when I am talking/singing to you. I like to sing different songs to you while we are in the car or if I am pushing you in the swing at the playground. One song I like to sing is, "If You're Happy and You Know It..." I always sang by myself with no response from you hoping that you were soaking up something. Since I couldn't clap or stomp while driving, I would always click my tongue. One day I started singing the song and you immediately starting clicking your tongue! Now at the end of the month, you will clap your hands and click your tongue throughout the whole song. When I would sing, I would also point to my face with both fingers during the part, "...then your face will really show it..." Sometimes if I am lucky, I can catch you doing the same.

You have started following some simple directions as well. Like any toddler, you love to get into things, but I have discovered a new trick that has helped me quite a bit. You like to close things - doors, drawers, toilets, the dishwasher, etc. If I am in the kitchen and I hear you getting into something in the bathroom, I say, "Close the door!" in an encouraging voice. As soon as I hear the click, I say, "Good job!" and we both clap. You really love the celebrating. :) I can keep you out of the Tupperware drawer now and I'm positive we have saved a few rolls of toilet paper from being rolled into the toilet. One problem we have run into though is when daddy is loading the dishwasher, you close it in the middle of the job and start clapping with a huge smile on your face. Haha!

This new ability to communicate is also helping with the potty training that I started when you were about five months old. Potty training at this stage is more about mommy reading your signals, but now you understand that going on the potty is a good thing and you celebrate by clapping your hands. Now, all that needs to happen is the recognition that you actually need to go. 

You have learned to blow on your food when it is hot. This was modeled quite a bit by mommy and daddy during dinner time. One time, daddy was trying to joke around with you and started blowing on your strawberries and doing a fake laugh afterward to try to show you that it was silly to blow on them because they weren't hot. I don't think you got the joke because now you blow on your strawberries like they are hot.

Recently, you have started to make a lot of connections that we haven't specifically taught you... We were at our neighbor's fourth birthday party this last weekend. As soon as they lit the candle, you ran over and tried to blow it out. We had to hold you back to keep you from blowing out his candles. 

When I went to the fifth grade promotion of my fourth graders from last year, earlier this week, you picked up a random kid's juice box and just starting drinking it with the straw. I had never even given you a straw or even showed you how to use one. 

At church, you picked up the eraser for the chalkboard during Sunday School and started erasing. You have also picked up pens and pencils and tried to draw on paper. 

You have started messing with the knobs and handles on doors as well. The only door in our house that you are close to opening has a deadbolt on it (luckily) because it is to the outside. It's only a matter of time before you're tall enough and have the strength to do it.

All of these things, I hadn't even specifically showed you, but you picked these things up from being observant. It is one thing that strangers always comment on - how aware you are of the world around you. People always assume that you are much older than 14 months. Right now, most guess around 18 months to 2 years old. I think it is in part because you are tall for your age, but also because of how you interact with and observe everything around you. We went to Antietam one Saturday as a family (mostly for the Nutters Icecream nearby... But the history was nice too!) You loved playing with the canons and smiling at the tourists who thought you were pretty cute.

You continue to love to be outside! We go on walks a couple times a day through the neighborhood. You love to swing and even tried the swing for big kids this last month. 

You also have started to do this thing while you're swinging where you lean back and just stare up at the sky. I remember doing the same as a kid.

You are getting better at walking/crawling up the playground stairs and you always make a quick stop to spin the steering wheel at the top before going down the slide. Your favorite thing to do at the playground though is to play in the mulch. You like to pick up pieces of mulch and push them through the little round holes that make up the surface of the playground equipment. 

You have actually walked all the way to the playground on your own without my direction (except when crossing the street). It's pretty far away so I am amazed with your incredible natural sense of direction!

This month, I bought a sand box off a Facebook Yardsale group for $5 and you love it! Before I got the sand, we turned it into a little swimming pool, but you weren't too fond of it, so as soon as it dried out and I had the sand, we filled it up. 

You sit and play in your sand box for extended periods of time and I may love it even more than you do. I can't wait to take you to the beach this summer!

One evening, you were not in the mood to play independently while your daddy and I watched our single tv show for the evening. We only got about 15 minutes into it before we couldn't hear because of your wailing... So I decided we should go out for a walk. The second we were outside, you were perfectly fine. While we were out and about, it started raining. I decided to just stay out in the rain (instead of face whatever toddler had been having a meltdown earlier). It started as only a warm sprinkle, but then it POURED! We had so much fun!! A couple days later, we were going somewhere and it was pouring rain once again outside. Instead of staying in the garage, you ran out with your hands in the air screaming and smiling. Haha, too bad we had somewhere we needed to be!

You currently have five teeth that are mostly out. You are enjoying the benefits of having more chompers! You love to eat and are really pretty good about trying new foods. We occasionally do snacks of Cheerios, goldfish, and marshmallows, but I found that you don't eat your meals as well afterwards, so we have basically cut snacks out except for after dinner if you are feeling munchy. You have so many foods the you love right now. It makes me feel like I'm doing something right as a mom when I see you devour your brocolli or green beans before touching anything else on your plate. I'm glad that you're a better eater than me! 

You continue to lead a very scheduled life, but you can be flexible if needed. You get up every morning between 6:45 and 7:15am. We usually have a breakfast of scrambled eggs, some sort of fruit, and a handful of Cheerios. Then, we go on a morning walk and/or play outside until around 9:30-10am. After that you are ready for a nap. Your morning nap lasts about an hour and a half and then you're up and ready to eat lunch. We usually have leftovers from the night before or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with fruit and veggies sides for lunch. Since you have three sections in your divided plates, I find myself feeling like I need to have a different food in each space. We usually once again play outside until around 2ish and then you are down again for your afternoon nap until 4pm. We eat dinner a little after you wake up, watch a tv show and then we are out for a walk again in the neighborhood until 7pm when it's bath time. After bath and a little inside playtime with daddy, it's bedtime at around 8pm.

Your hair grew a lot this month! I've been dreaming of ponytails for quite some time and decided to try some out in the bathtub. You daddy came upstairs during all of this and exclaimed, "Astro Boy!" It's from your daddy's favorite comic Calvin and Hobbes. I think I see the resemblance!

I am still nursing you when you wake up, before your two naps, and at bedtime. You are still awake when I am done nursing you and put yourself to sleep about 80% of the time, so I'm not too concerned with the transitioning. I tried to start weaning you a couple months ago and ended up with mastitis, so I decided to consider that I sign that neither of us were ready. 

Now that whole schedule is basically kaput if we go anywhere for the day. We have morning church starting at 9am every Sunday and unlike the other sweet babies at church, you do not sleep a wink. When you are tired and we are away from home, you somehow become more energetic. It's actually pretty amazing how you can run around and show no signs of actually being tired. When we were at the fifth grade promotion for my fourth graders from last year, you were dancing around the gymnasium floor with about a dozen fifth graders surrounding you. That was at 1:30pm and you hadn't taken a single nap that day. I decided that it was time to go and you fought me getting into the stroller, but you had almost fallen asleep before we even made it out to the car! 

I know I am just the doting first time mom, but I am constantly amazed by how well you play with other kids. Many times at the playground, at a playgroup, or at a neighbor's house, another kid (always older) will grab a toy out of your hands. Instead of throwing a fit, you just walk away and get another toy. If you are playing with another kid, many times, you will turn and hand them what you are playing with in order to share with them. We still have problems with you getting excited and wacking other kids in the face, but if I say something about kissing it better, you put your hands down and snuggle up to the kid and give them a kiss which is basically at this point you just pressing your face against theirs. Here is a picture of you snuggling in the bounce house with Elise, your 4 year old neighbor friend!

You are also a pretty tough kid as far as falling and not crying. One time, we were at the playground and you totally smashed your face into the side of the slide when you accidentally tripped over your feet while running. Several of the moms that I was standing around with gasped and we all waited for the heavy pause before the inevitable scream when there's a bad injury. You just sat up, looked at me, and then stood up and continued on your way. You have scrapes and bruises on your legs and most of them barely stunned you. If you do cry after a fall, it's usually because it was a really bad one or you are just tired and ready for a nap/bedtime. I'm one lucky mama!

One neat thing that I have been noticing lately is your capacity to learn and REMEMBER things and people. A while back, your daddy taught you that you could get a balloon to float above the air vent if you put it in the right spot. You did it several times after he taught you until that balloon popped. A few days later, you found your big pink bouncy ball which was about the same size and you tried to have it fly above the air vent like the balloon. When it didn't work, you looked visibly confused and disappointed.

I can't believe how fast you're growing. You are such a fun and amazing little girl. We are going to have a blast together this summer!

Leah 13 Months Old

Yes, I'm still doing these monthly updates! Leah is learning more and growing faster than ever. How could I not??

Right now, my dear Leah, you weigh 21 pounds and are 31 inches tall. You are wearing 12 month clothes, size 3-4 shoes, and size 3 diapers. I felt like you were on the small side when we went to your one year appointment, but it turns out that you are still in the 97th percentile for height and in the 60's for weight. Now that you're officially a toddler, I've moved you to the rocking chair with your quilt as the new "grown up" backdrop for your monthly pictures.

For Easter this year, you were sick. :( The Thursday morning before Easter, you had woken up with the horrible sounds of the "croup cough." We didn't end up going to church that Sunday because you were so congested and snotty. It was pretty nasty! Luckily within a week, you had kicked it and were back to your old self. Your Easter basket was a pink tutu that you had picked out yourself at the store with some random goodies - toddler toothpaste and light up toothbrushes, a random pink squishy thing you liked, sunglasses, more hair bows, a stuffed lamb with HUGE eyes from your Aunt Bekah and a crazy headband from your Aunt Heather, some fruit snacks, applesauce pouches, and of course a little candy!

You were able to wear your Easter dress (which was unexpectedly gifted to us by one of my parents' neighbors) the next Sunday. You cried or gave me grimaces the whole time I tried to take pictures of you in your dress, so here are the best ones for the scrapbook. 

This month you have continued to work on talking. The words that you use are dada, mama, and buh buh (bye bye). I was trying to convince your daddy one evening that you knew who he was because he didn't believe me. I said, "Where's Dada?" and you turned around, smiled, and looked at him. Then I said, "Where's Mama?" and you looked at me. He still didn't believe that you ACTUALLY knew, so I asked again and this time you turned around and POINTED right at him and said, "Dada!" Haha, it was hilarious! You say "Dada" a lot more often then "Mama," but when you are sad you will usually call out to me. Whenever we are leaving or someone is leaving, we practice "bye, bye." You hand clap with one hand while saying, "buh, buh." I don't think you really understand it quite yet, but you are now willing to copy us.

You've also started making some pretty funny sounds with your mouth. You learned to click your tongue in the car and you make an "Indian" sound by putting the back of your hand over your mouth and flapping it. Another sound you make (though not quite as pleasant) is this high pitched squeal/scream when you're excited. I've been trying to break you of the habit by gently cupping my hand over your mouth when I'm within close range of you and you start doing the "Indian" sound and smile.

You've started with more motions this month as well besides moving your hand for bye bye. You now clap on demand, give high fives, point at EVERYTHING with your hands, and shake your head no. When you want something, want to go a certain direction, or if you're just curious you have started to point. We sometimes play a game where you point at lots of different things while I name everything. A few weeks ago, we were sitting down for dinner and you threw some of your food on the ground. I looked at you, shook my head, and said, "No Leah." I hadn't even noticed that you had copied me, but your daddy did and got you to shake your head again copying him that time. Now whenever we tell you, "No." You shake your head and smile at us. Apparently, we still need to work on conveying the seriousness of "No." When we turn on music, you have started to dance some. You have gotten your moves from your daddy and I because all you do at this point is move back and forth on your feet and shake your head. We wish we still had our Latin dancing Puerto Rican neighbors to teach you how to dance!

Your favorite games to play right now are, "I'm Gonna Get You!" and "Peek-A-Boo!" We have a circle that you like to run around and chase your daddy or vice versa in the evenings after he gets home from work. He runs around saying, "I'm gonna get you!" and you squeal and keep on running from him. One night you were chasing him around and he stopped playing. You grabbed him to catch him, but then you just kept on running around the circle. Haha! With Peek-a-Boo, you have started putting your purple blanket over your head and walking around like a little purple ghost. We say, "Where's Leah??" and you pull down the blanket and look at us with a big smile. We know when you want to play when we see you walking around blindly with the blanket over your head. You've run into quite a few walls and corners this way!

Now that the weather is nicer, we've been walking to the community playground a couple times a day. You've gotten into a little routine once we're there if no one else is at the playground. When we get there, you run right over to the baby swings and point at the first one. I push you in the swing for a while and as soon as you get down, you point to the second baby swing and I push you in that one for a little while. After the swings, you go over to the slides and stand at the bottom until I sit you at the top to go down them. If there are other kids, you watch and copy them and will climb up the stairs and go to the slides on your own. I have to be careful and watch you closely because you don't always sit down before you try to go down the slides! You also like to "drive" by spinning a steering wheel at the top of the slide area. It's so much fun to watch you learn and play!

As far as moving, you are really getting faster and I think I can now say that you are actually running! You are still pretty clumsy and take quite a few spills, but you are getting more steady on your feet each day. During church, you have a tendency to run up the aisles during sacrament meeting when your daddy is traveling. I'm worried that one of these days you will make it to the pulpit. This last Sunday, your daddy and I were able to corral you during sacrament meeting between us by playing games and giving you snacks. It makes for a long hour and 15 minutes! You crawl up the stairs pretty quickly and now you will go down on your belly without me getting you started. You still do not start going down if your are at the top of the stairs though. You still aren't really climbing all that much and you have yet to climb onto the couch or a chair, but you are very interested to see what I am always doing at the stove.

You have three new teeth on their way in right now with your bottom two solidly in. Your top right tooth and the one next to it are slightly out and your other front tooth is barely poking out. When you first started getting your top teeth, you were grinding them together making noises that drove your mommy CRAZY! Fortunately, you have stopped that for the most part. Your new teeth have made it easier to chew on things and also to keep your food in your mouth.

As far as eating, you are a champ. You will try basically anything we put on your plate or into your mouth. Your favorite foods right now are noodles, scrambled eggs, broccoli, peanut butter, blueberries... and of course anything with chocolate! Unfortunately right now when you are finished, you have started picking up your plate and dumping it out to let us know you are done, so we're working on correcting that. We still have a bunch of Sixlets left over from Easter. When your daddy gets home from work each day, he will open up a little packet with eight little spherical candies and pop them out of the wrapper one at a time. You feed the first one to your self, the next one to your daddy, and then you alternate between the two of you. We are very surprised at how naturally good you are at sharing right now!

I finally got around to installing room darkening curtain up in your room. The darker room has increased both your morning and afternoon naps by about 15 minutes each and you sleep in a little extra in the mornings as well! Your schedule right now if we don't have any conflicts is that you wake up around 7am, nap from 10-12 and 3-5. You are usually in bed by around 8pm. You have gotten really good at getting yourself to sleep and waking up without crying. You even will play in your crib for a little while now before I come to get you out. You have a glowing seahorse that you love to play with while you wait. I can tell that you are ready to get out when you start throwing out all of your stuffed animals. I am still nursing you before nap times and bedtime, but you are usually still awake whenever I lay you down in the crib. You are pretty scheduled and if we don't make it home in time for your nap time, you still find ways to get your nap in...

You are still awesome in your car seat anytime we drive somewhere. As long as we are moving, you are content. The only problem that we have run into is that you fall asleep pretty easily in the car. Once we get home and it is nap time, you think that you have already napped even if it was only 10 or 15 minutes and end up skipping your nap. You used to be really good in the grocery cart. You would just look around at everyone and take everything in. Now, you want to be out of the cart and touching everything. It makes shopping trips much more... interesting. When we went shopping this last Saturday, you pointed at one of the strawberry applesauce pouches while we were in line at check out. Your daddy caved and went ahead and bought it for you. You got a really big smile on your face as soon as he opened it for you. The whole way home in the car, you were drinking your applesauce and saying, "Dada dada dada." It was very cute!

You have definitely started getting into more stuff. I have to be really careful to keep the bathroom doors closed and the toilet lids down or we end up with the toilet paper unrolled and objects in the toilet water. One of your favorite drawers to empty out right now is the one below the oven/stove and it is usually while I am cooking. You pull out all of my cookie cooling racks with LOUD clangs and then climb inside the drawer. You always look very pleased with yourself after you do it. Sometimes, if I am lucky, you put the cookie cooling racks back.. but not usually. You also like to dump out all of the food bins in your play kitchen. Another favorite place of yours is the fridge. Whenever I open the refrigerator, you always run over to get inside. If I forget to close the door immediately, you quickly find your way inside. One time, you pulled out and cracked every single one of our decorated hard boiled eggs from Easter.

You LOVE playing in the dirt or sand. I was doing a little prepping of our garden at my parents' house and when I went to throw the weeds out, you climbed in the planter box and had yourself covered in dirt within seconds! You have done this now on TWO different occasions! Another time, we were over at a friend's house in the neighborhood and you crawled into their sandbox and started playing while I was over there talking. You were perfectly content for over 45 minutes without a SINGLE interruption from me. I think we're going to need to have daddy build you a sandbox!

You are growing so quickly and learning so many new things. I can't wait to see what you'll be doing this next month! I love you my dear, sweet Leah!

Leah's First Birthday Party

So I probably started thinking about Leah's first birthday party about a few weeks after she was born...  I even created a private Pinterest board so no one would see what a nerd I was trying to plan that soon. When Leah was four or five weeks old, I went to a first birthday party up the street in my neighborhood. The theme was pajamas and pancakes and I loved it! It seemed easy enough and I didn't want to stress too much about a party that Leah wouldn't even remember.

Fast forward about 2-3 months before Leah's first birthday and I realized that I hadn't even given a second thought to the planning of her big party. While I was in Hawaii, I toyed with doing an Hawaiian themed party, but I decided it involved more planning and decorating that I was capable of or wanted to do. One night I got on Pinterest and typed in pajamas and pancakes and I knew immediately that I was going to do this for Leah's first birthday. It was brilliant - cheap food, the most comfortable dress, and all over before nap time! I found cute invites, printed a couple, but then just invited everyone via Facebook.

Pinterest was full of cute ideas and most of them wouldn't really work for the 1-4 year old audience that I would have attending Leah's party, but SOME of them would. Here is a screenshot of my "secret" board.

My first over-the-top idea from Pinterest was to create personalized monogrammed blankets for all the kiddos at the party as favors. Joann Fabrics had a 50% off sale on its blizzard fleece and then we had a 25% off the whole order coupon as well, so the fabric for each of the blankets was pretty cheap. The hardest part was picking out unique fabrics that each one of my little guests would like. My mom has a sewing machine that does embroidery so that part was easy. I knew I wanted to have a finished edge on my blankets and I knew I didn't want to just tie them off, so I skowered the internet looking for ideas. Using my mad Google skills, I finally found (not on Pinterest) a grandma lady's low tech blog with instructions on how to use a serger with #10 crochet thread to finish the edges on a fleece blanket. Yay! Plan hatched! We ended up using crochet thread on both the top and the bottom instead of the woolly nylon because it looked better.

We shopped about three weeks before the party and started the blankets right away. I didn't want to save anything for the last minute. It took about three nap times to complete the blankets and I actually really enjoyed doing them. The only part I didn't end up doing was the serger because the tension was crazy tricky, so my mom did that. We did 13 blankets in all for 13 little friends. I forgot to take a picture with my nice camera the day of the party so here is a picture from a couple weeks before the party when I finished up a few later RSVP's and was wrapping them with tulle and little cute tags.

I feel like making these blankets was completely over the top, but I really loved doing them and hey, you only get to go overboard once for your first baby's first birthday!

You may have noticed from my blog that I like taking pictures, so when I saw the picture collage in the shape of a 1 on Pinterest, I couldn't help myself. My parents have a laser color printer so I printed off 9 sheets of 12 pictures each with the square Instagram look. I had too many pictures, so I ended up taping together two huge pieces of white poster board and making a border. It turned out okay and served its purpose to add decor to a big empty wall in my house.

Speaking of decor, that was probably the only real stressful part of getting ready for this party. It is no mystery that Doug and I are super cheap. We have been in our house now for 6 years and I barely had any pictures on the wall and we were still using an old Walmart cheap entertainment center from 10 years ago that I bought my sophomore year in college. It may have had a slight tilt to it. Our front living room had a single black recliner that I bought for Doug for Christmas several years back and there was a huge empty wall where we had been planning (for about 3 years) to put a love seat. We rarely have people over due to the out-of-the-way location of our home, but we were going to have a bunch of people finally coming over. Doug was less than willing to contribute to my crazy task financially and I kind of have limited funds being my TpT earnings are my only source of income. So I got on Wayfair.com and ordered a new entertainment center (with doors so Leah couldn't push buttons) and a love seat to go in the front room. I also ordered a square coffee table from IKEA (that took forever to get to my house because of some serious shipping mishaps!). So combined with all of Leah's birthday gifts that were coming from out of town family, we were getting packages just about every day.

I even convinced Doug to let me take a family picture on the new couch. It took a bit of photoshopping, but I used the clone tool to get the best faces and hair from the 15 or so tripod shots I got. The hardest part was fixing Doug's slouch which make his head a full inch below the top of mine... But alas Photoshop is wondrous and amazing and I think the picture turned out great. I did the Staples black and white over sized blueprint mounted on foam board. It turned out okay, but I think next family picture, I will just spend more than $6 for a nicer quality large family picture for the wall.

So yes, all of this home furnishing and decorating had nothing to do with Leah's actual party, but I'm glad now that I went ahead a did all the stuff because I feel overall happier about the appearance of my home now.

So fast forward to the actual morning of the party. The house was spotless and my parents plus Johnny and Chris got there early to help with set up. Johnny was in charge of tying three helium balloons to the mailbox which was apparently too hard and took about 20 minutes.  Chris was in charge of hanging four pictures on the wall... to make it look like I lived in my house, my dad was blowing up balloons and watching Leah while my mom cut up fruit and I set up a kids table.

The plan for the party was to have breakfast, play with toys upstairs, and do fruit loop necklaces from 9-10am. Then we would open Leah's presents from 10-10:20. After presents, we would give the kids their blankets as a thank you so they could cuddle them while my mom read The Hungry Caterpillar from 10:20-10:40 Then we would sing happy birthday, do the cake smash and cupcakes from 10:40-11am. Simple enough plan and it worked out great. (Can you tell I'm an overthinker??)

My BIG little brother Chris took pictures during the party and did a great job! I took the camera during the cake smash and was able to capture some real treasures of Leah really enjoying her cake! 

I got this cute idea to do fruit loop necklaces from Pinterest and I had made an example one ahead of time for Leah. When I put it on her at the beginning of the party, she had absolutely no interest and wanted to take it off UNTIL... I put a fruit loop in her mouth. For the rest of the party, she was a fruit loop monster! She was stealing kids necklaces and stuffing fistfuls of fruit loops into her mouth.

My mom and dad took on the task of making the pancakes and waffles for the party along with occasionally multitasking and holding Leah while I was greeting guests. They were awesome!!!

This picture shows the breakfast set up with some of the kids sitting at a little plastic table to eat their breakfast and some at the bigger table. Most of the parents just sat on the floor or stood nearby and ate their breakfast.

Leah was crazy wired her whole party (even before the cake) and I could not get her to sit and open presents.  Here is a picture of me opening her presents while she goes over and steals more fruit loops!

These are a few pictures of the kids with their new blankets.

Here is a picture of my mom reading the story to everyone.

I think the smash cake turned out super cute! I found a little tutorial online that was super easy and was exactly what I was looking for. It was my first time trying to ice something like that and I was happy with the results even though they weren't perfect! :)

We sang happy birthday and I helped Leah blow out her candle...

Then she started digging in! I quickly stole the camera away from my brother and parked myself on the opposite end of the table to snap a ton of pictures while everyone else enjoyed their cupcakes.

It is hard to pick a favorite, but I think this one is it!

Overall, we had a great time. Leah took a super long nap afterwards. And finally, I'm glad that I have another year before I do one of these again.  :)

Happy birthday my sweet Leah!