For the Love.....of a lot of things: A few weeks behind, but better late than never, Week 1

In an endeavor to keep me a smidge more accountable (haha) with blogging, I am really, really going to try a new weekly format to hopefully capture all that year 2 has in store for us. Its funny to say year 2, when Mary Eloise is only 1, but the funnier thing is she has picked up counting. When you ask her how old she is and say "Are you 1" and hold up 1 finger, she will hold up one finger and reply "two". It is very cute how sequentially she says it because she drags it out a bit and you expect her to keep counting.

Her first week of being 1 she is beginning to master walking. We had a wonderful day the Saturday before her birthday and took smash cake pictures at my friend Darci's house. Darci is a budding photographer that I have known since she was a little girl, she was one of my campers at Camp Coleman, she went to UNA, and pledged my same sorority (although we weren't there at the same time) and we have stayed great friends. I kept her little girl off and on when she was a baby and Mary Eloise loves Darci. I made Mary Eloise's smash cake, not a Wilton masterpiece, but fit to be photographed and destroyed. ME dove right into the cake like she eats cake everyday and did so well for the camera.

That same night we had a bit of unfortunate luck with my car. I was on my way in to work (I was on call that weekend) and my car died on me. Fortunately a friend came to my rescue and got me to work on time and Mim came over and listened for ME while Jason tried to CPR my Volvo. Needless to say, she couldn't be saved :( But it didn't rain on our parade because we had a wonderful reason to celebrate our weekend.

We celebrated Mary Eloise's birthday with a dinner at our home and ME entertained them with her cake eating skills again that night. The rest of the week she has spent mastering walking and enjoying her new gifts. We are going to get her a new swing set for the back yard, but have yet to find the right one. Until then, she got her first Barbie doll, her "Bobbie" as she calls it and some other toys. She also has become very interested in her baby dolls and pictures of herself, calling out to her "Baby".

Instead of my week in photos, I'm going to share a year photo montage.