Ivey Kate's Winter ONEderland!

Our little Ivey Kate is one!!!  It is so hard to believe!  I feel like it's only been 6 months or so since she joined our family.  She has brought so much joy into our lives in her one year and I know that she'll continue to bring so much more.  We had a ONEderful time celebrating her.  We went with a winter ONEderland theme and had so much fun with it.

Here are some pics from her Winter ONEderland birthday party.

"I'm One"

Ivey Kate's snowflake birthday cake and snowman cupcakes.

I didn't have the right settings on my camera but the branches have a picture of her from each month. It was fun looking back through pictures from our year with her.   The little white Christmas tree has the snowman ornament party favors that said "I had snow much fun turning one" on the back. :)

Our greeter at the front door.

I tried to do our Christmas decorations less red and green and more wintery to go with her birthday theme.

The birthday girl with her KitKat (Matt's Mom).

Cousin Addie Brown and Mattilee enjoying the cupcakes.

Ready for her cake!

She didn't waste any time! She knew exactly what to do and loved it! Her birthday cake and smash cake were strawberry and were so yummy.  

It's on her nose and all over her mouth but she didn't seem to care.  

She's still digging in.

She got a trampoline from Pop and Gigi and the kids loved jumping at the party. 

What a ONEderful year with our sweetheart! 

Our precious one year old can say:

"uh oh"

"momma"

"dadda"

"book"

"bye bye"

"hey baby" when seeing another baby or any kind of doll. 

"hey puppy" to our dog, Molly and her new favorite toy stuffed puppy. 

and she can sign "please" and "all done".

She gives kisses and hugs and blows kisses.  

She can tell you where her head, hair, nose, mouth, tongue, feet, hands, belly...most parts of her body are located.
She can hold up one finger when you ask her how old she is. 

I've just recently noticed that she really seems to be understanding what we are saying.  I can tell her to go get something familiar and she can do it. If we are talking about hair, she'll touch her hair, if we see a giraffe in a book she'll tilt her head back to show me her long neck life a giraffe.  :)  This age really is so fun.  It seems they pick up on new things every hour they are awake.  

She still isn't walking but is cruising around a little.  She doesn't seem very interested in it right now. I think she is perfectly content crawling to wherever she would like to go.  I LOVE watching that sweet little body crawl down the hallway, swaying from side to side and knowing that she's coming by the hand slaps I hear on the hard wood as she crawls. They only crawl for such a short time and then they walk for the rest of their lives so she can just take her sweet time. But I have to say, I am looking forward to seeing her wobble around on those chubby legs. 

My favorite things about our Ivey Kate right now:
When she gives kisses she leans in with her mouth open.:) And when she's in the mood to give them out, everybody gets several.
Sometimes when I pick her up she squeezes my neck so tight and just keeps holding me like that.  Such a great feeling.
Girl loves to dance.  Every time she hears music she starts dancing and then looks at us smiling to make sure we see her. I can't even sing to her at night when we rock without her popping up her head off my chest and bouncing and swaying from side to side.  So cute.
Her favorite things are stuffed animals.  She loves to "love" them by saying "aww" and hugging and patting them. It is the most precious thing.  We can put several in the floor around her and she'll go to each one, hugging, patting and saying "aww".  It's so precious!

At Ivey Kate's 12 month checkup she was 21lbs 3 1/2oz and 30 1/2 inches.  She's in 90% for height and 50% for weight.  I'm so proud of my chunky monkey.  She's seems to be doing great! So thankful for our happy, healthy one year old!