Happy Birthday Sugababe!!

Aw...ma...gawwwd. My little is ONE YEAR OLD!! I just can't wrap my brain around this, I mean, I just freakin had her...like yesterday!! Alas, here we are, celebrating a year of smiles, poop, some tears (both mine and hers) and lots of love.

And I just knew it, Miss E got sick just in time for her big day. I knew it, I knew it, I KNEW it! I should be a psychic. We picked her up from school Wednesday and were told she had a fever. And that she slept a whole hour (unheard of) and then just layed her head on one of her teacher's shoulder when they picked her up. And you could tell. Her eyes were red and her face was all puffy. Dang cold. So our plans to take her to the Austin Children's Museum where scrapped and we spent all day inside so she could get better in time for her partay.

Despite the cold, she woke up this morning happy after a rough night.

Happy Birthday Ella!

In case you were wondering, this is what the little looks like when she wakes up in the morning after having her hair pulled up all night to keep it from becoming booger encrusted to her face.

"Mama, I will not sit down, kthksbai"

The last (sniffle, sniffle, bwaaaaaaa!!!) of our monthly tutu pics

Oh, we have a climber. So far, she has tried to climb the TV cabinet, her crib, the dogs and the bathtub.

And the birthday girl in her birthday outfit!!

"Can I pullleeeease take off my shoes??"

After staying in the nice warm house on a cold winter day, it was time to have some fun with family

A birthday supper that consisted of...well....bread. Just plain old bread. Miss E hasn't been too hungry today. Too full of snot I guess.

Among what seems like the millions of things she has started to do lately, one of them is to 'feed' you. And the dogs too. Here she is feeding dada, because he was hungry!

Eating her birthday cupcake, with sadly no icing. I know we will be testing her milk allergy now that she's a year, but I just didn't want to possibly add to the miserable-ness of a cold with an upset tummy, so no icing. There will be special icing at her party on Sunday though!!

JUMP POODLE!! (We didn't have the heart to tell her that Maggie wasn't actually there when Tia said JUMP)

So occasionally Ella will hold food high above her head and drop it behind her. She thought this was a good idea to do with her cupcake.

Not sure what this is. She starting running up to the dogs and doing it. Maybe it's a sign of a peace offering??

Grandma gave Ella a figurine that she had originally gotten for her mother, Granny. Granny used to collect them. So now Ella has a little piece of her great-grandmother, called "Grandmother's Love"

Tia got Ella her very own pair of diamond stud earrings. Just the cutest, ittle-bittiest little diamonds you ever saw!! Ooooh...DIAMONDS!

Dada decided we should get E a little wagon that she could pull stuff around in

I can't believe it, but Sassy and Poppy are going to build Ella her very own playground in our backyard!! When she is old enough to read this blog, she will be able to see this post, look outside at her swings and treehouse and think of her Sassy and Poppy and smile. We are so excited and can't wait to start designing it. I know Ella will love it, her fave place is outside. And they also got her a plush tea set which she clearly loves...

The tea cup

The croissant

The teapot

And the cupcake

And what better place to put your tea set than in the wagon from Maaaa and Dada

Our little family, a whole year later.

Some videos to come tomorrow. It's 11:30 at night and although little bit is sleeping now, that may not last the whole night!