our one year old

Happy 1st birthday to our sweet little kate!  This year has gone by so fast I can't even tell you.  To say that kate is one almost sounds like I am making it up.  We did a little cupcake for her last night not knowing what time daddy would get home tonight.  Kate is a little under the weather (a trend for 1st birthdays at our house) but rallied for some pink icing.  She was dainty with the cupcake for a while and then dove in pretty well.  Brooks liked singing happy birthday to his sister and is already looking forward to his birthday next week.

At 1 year...
you only want to feed yourself - no more spoons for you - you push away all the baby food and want to use the fork yourself to get the avacado, bananas, pasta, EVERYTHING!

you are cruising around on the furniture and almost pushing your walking toy.  you let go of a chair today for just a second.  the head bump stage is totally here and you have bruises on your forehead and cheek to show for this weekends falls.

you have had a rough month of sleeping but hopefully we are coming out of it now.  we think you had your first night terrors on many occassions (sad!) and might be following in daddy's footsteps of being a crazy sleeper (sleeptalking/walking).   somedays you will take two naps but if the morning one is good, the afternoon isn't and the opposite too.  you are a funny girl!

you love your sippy cups and decided at christmas that you were done with the bottle.  miss independent for sure.   we call you the "saucy nugget" and your "spirited" personality might give us a run for our money.

you love your stand up music table, your frog lovie, the little people farm, touch and feel books, "flap books," remote controls, brooks's trains and legos, trying to climb on stools, and pulling up on toilets.

you don't love having your diaper changed (at all!), when we take anything away from you, bumping your forehead on the ground, being taken in and out of the carseat to run errands, sitting still for a book, and when daddy puts you down.

you are totally into your daddy.
and we are all totally into you. 

we will get some stats next week at the doctor... stay tuned!

Brooks and I had a good time this weekend at the National Western Stock Show and rodeo. We didn't get any photos from the stockyards, but getting up close and personal with some very big, very primped up steers was awesome. Then we went to the rodeo which had "crazy horses" and "fast fast horses." The highlight was probably when one of the broncs went to the ground, rolled on his side, and then jumped up and resumed bucking, and the cowboy stayed on the entire time. These dudes are tough.

Less tough are Kate and I - germs continue their winning season at the Fuquay house this winter.

happy new year

we spent a fun weekend in austin, texas over new year's.  the trip was for jay & vanessa's awesome wedding but we also enjoyed sunny days touring austin, a visit to the capital, good mexican food and lots of college football.

brooks touring the capital - he really enjoyed the cannons outside - maybe we have a historian on our hands!

watching the games with daddy.  the deacs didn't pull out a win but we had fun watching game after game.  brooks kept asking when tebow was going to play - still not quite clear on that!

finally a wedding with no kids!  we loved these shades that the couple gave everyone - they made us better dancers for sure!