Our Little Goofball!

Last night we finish reading books before bed, and our last book was "Bear Wants More" (which is one of the Karma Wilson books -author of Bear Snores On... which are fantastic books). In case you haven't read these, in both books the bear is asleep or falls asleep at the end. So we finish the book and Niya promptly leans her head back, closes her eyes, opens her mouth, and makes this long "Aaaaaaaaaaaw" sound... it took us both a minute (staring at her in surprise and confusion) for Daddy to figure out that she is pretending to be the SNORING BEAR!!!

It was hilarious... once we figured out what she was doing, we laughed pretty hard. If I can ever capture this on video, I will. It is super cute!!! :)

"Please stop squeaking at your tomatoes!"

Sitting at dinner...

Niya picks up a tomato piece (which she doesn't want to eat) and stabs it onto her plate "Eeeek" she says, as if killing it! Done with that victim, she moves on to the next tomato... tiny arm out-stretched like a crane, picks up the tomato off the table with all five fingers strait, swings the crane arm over the plate, and bringing the full arm down on the pointed fingers holding the new victim... "Eeeek!" she shouts victoriously!

At a loss for anything else to say (and trying not to laugh) I utter: "Please stop squeaking at your tomatoes!"

A totally ridiculous phrase in any context!

Ahhh the joys of parenting, you can sound totally insane on a daily basis! :)

Really?!?

Niya (age 1): [confidently] Poop!

Me: Really? I don't think so, I just changed your diaper.

Me: [checking] Nope you don't have poop! Where's the poop?

Niya (age 1): [with a rascally smile] Dada!

Me: [laughing] really?!?

Poor Dada, he got blamed and he wasn't even home!

But, really, are any of you surprised?

Crazy Cute Overalls

Our wonderful friends Jake and Nilda sent Niya these crazy cute overalls for her birthday! We think she has just the personality to pull these off.

Blog in progress

I am tired of the look of the old blog and am ready to change things up... so here is a new "blog in progress"!

If any of you "blogsperts" know how to set a new background (pretty picture or texture) please let me know!

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby Niya - 1 year today!!

Today was Niya's first Birthday and I think that we made it a pretty good day! :)

There were balloons, cake, books, gifts, a party dress (her choice), turning her car seat forward, drinking out of a straw, lasagna for dinner, having strawberries for all the other meals, " "skyping" with grandparents, two birthday songs, and new shoes (she didn't want to wear them, just carry them around)!

Here are some videos and pictures to share the day with all of you...

Presents first thing in the morning! :)

Seeing the presents for the first time in the living room

(that weren't there before the nap)!

Getting started...

The First Birthday Cake

Blueberries (ironically) and strawberries are Niya's very favorite foods... but this also made for a nice memorial day cake too!

Playing with all the toys

Check out videos below for more fun...

Birthday Videos