Birthday Girl

We celebrated on Sunday, with family, Madeline's 2nd birthday! In her bright pink birthday dress (that she kept telling me was "pretty dress") she mingled with everyone, blew out her candles (with help from Mom), opened presents and ate too much sugar.
Thanks to everyone who joined us in making this a special day for our big girl!

Here's a shot of this year's cake. Again, we went to the awesome people at Noisette Pastry Works . They did a fantastic job again this year and the cake was delicious (lemon and raspberry)....perfect for the hot summer day!

Here she is applauding the crowd after singing "Happy Birthday".

With her Aunt Katie (are they starting to look alike?)

In her "pretty dress"....

Looking forward to next year!

Birthday Party Pictures

It's late....but I wanted to post some pics from Maddy's party on the weekend. I'll put some description in so you get an idea of the afternoon we had. Then, I must go to bed.

We had the party at my parents house - their place is much larger than ours and can fit my family + Michael's family.
Here is Michael opening Mad's gifts. She seems to like the peek a boo book....

After every gift we applauded and then Maddy would applaud. She did this for EVERY gift. You're not an Easter unless you applaud after opening a present.

Eating her birthday cake. This cake was amazing. We had the bakery that did our wedding cake 5 years ago create her birthday cake. We went with the same flavour as well - Lemon and Raspberry. Did I mention how much I love this bakery? This cake was filled with amazing real raspberries. Highly recommend them if you're looking for a cake for a special occassion and I thought the price was very reasonable.

First taste....that cake was soooo tall...so many layers of yumminess

Cake with Mom and Dad

Family picture

My sisters and I. We did not plan to all wear green.

The cake. Super cute. I'll stop talking about it now.

Happy Birthday Madeline!!

Today (Monday) Madeline turns 1 year old. Sigh. I'm not going to get all emotional about this. Babies grow up, it's what they do! But what I will say is that this tiny baby has grown into my little lady and stolen the hearts of everyone around her. I expect her to keep doing just that for years to come.

It's hard to believe that this was a year ago tomorrow. I'm writing this post at 10:45 on the 23rd. At this time last year, Maddy was still in my belly. We were still at home and I was in labour. 7 hours later....here she was :) Wow. I'm more emotional looking back at these pictures now than I was when I was in the moment.

Happy Birthday Madeline!

Happy 10 Month Birthday Madeline!!

Today is my little Pooh Bear's 10 Month Birthday!! It seems that for most of her "month" birthdays she likes to reach a new milestone. It's almost as if she knows I'll need something to write about on her blog. Wise young girl.
So yesterday was the first day that Maddy walked with her walker (remember the fisher-price car we bought that she looooves). For a few days in a row she had been holding onto the car and literally running as fast as she could on her knees. It's quite amazing how fast she could go. Then just yesterday she stood up and just started to walk while pushing it. She probably went about 4 steps and then sat down. This evening she was doing about 10 steps.
I have video - I will try to post it tomorrow.

Since it's her 10 month birthday, that means I really need to kick my party planning into high gear!!