Calling Independence

Here's what my wobbly, gobbly, almost-toddler is up to these days.

Can you believe it? She's turning one! Wow! And she's showing plenty of signs of wanting to be independent. She's not walking solo yet but she knows how to stand up on her own and cruise along the furniture. She crawls at lightning speed, though, if she wants to go somewhere. The nicest part of it all is that she now actively participates in on games like patty-cake and peek-a-boo and play catch and even in normal conversations! She giggles and talks gibberish which sounds really cute and really funny!

Also, feeding time is becoming less and less demanding since she's able to hold and drink from her sippy cup on her own and that she can feed herself much of her food on her plate (and some on her hair, her bib, her lap, the table and the floor! haha!).

One thing that she does that bugs me was when I change her diaper and she wiggles around! Other than that, she's very helpful particularly when I dress her up by pushing her own fist on the sleeves or stretching out her legs for her pants as I prompt her.

Kirstin's First Birthday Preparation

Wow! Time flies super fast! I can't believe she's turning one next month! Although the thought of hosting a party sends shivers down my spine and jitters in my stomach, I have a pretty good feeling that it will be fun! I first thought of a theme and since her birthday is in the summer, I thought of throwing a luau party for her! After all, we have a community pool that we can hold the party at!

The first thing I did were the invitations since I have to mail them right away. I'll just have to worry about the party details and the menu after. I thought of putting a picture of her, of course, on the front of the invitation. I decided to do a past, present and future kind-of-effect in the way I present her pictures so I chose a picture of her when she's 3 months old and then 6 months old and took a present day picture of her in her hawaiian outfit! She's not able to stand alone but I had Kurt take a picture of her standing up, while holding onto my arm. Then, I just magically cropped myself out of the picture! Haha! That was really a good trick! People thought she could stand up on her own. Hihihi! So, I really had fun doing that and I think it came out great (at least that's what I heard them say or they're just being nice to me! Hehe!) And of course, Kurt didn't want to miss out the opportunity to be part of her little girl's big day, that he decided to make a lymerick to be put on the invitation as well!

The next thing I did was download hawaiian music for the party! That also was a success! I can already see people dancing to the music including me! Haha! Then I asked my friends' advice on what menu to serve and my friends, being supportive as they always are, came up with some good suggestions that made it harder for me to choose! Boy, oh boy! Now I have a dilemma! Hahaha!

Now that everything is planned, I just have to worry about its execution! Wish me luck!