Ivey is One!

Ivey celebrated her first birthday on January 26th! Joe and I celebrated with a quick ski trip to Whistler while Gramma & Grandad stayed in Charlotte with Ivey. We took the red eye back and were home before she awoke on her birthday. We celebrated with cupcakes and 1 candle. Ivey devoured her cupcake and got very upset when I took away a chunk of icing she had in her hand. Gramma and Grandad left for their trip to Florida and we had a real party when they came back a few weeks after her official birthday. Ivey was quite fond of her big birthday cake - she keeps pointing to the leftover cake in the kitchen hoping we'll give her another piece!

New Year's and More Christmas

We celebrated the beginning of the New Year in the mountains where it was warm enough to hike but way too wet. We left before the extreme cold settled in - we all can do without temps in the single digits! Then, we celebrated Christmas one more time with a visit from Grandma & Grandpa.
Ivey is getting so big and is turning into a little toddler before our eyes. She no longer drinks from a bottle, has graduated to the big tub, has learned to climb the stairs on her own, brushes her own teeth and hair (sometimes with the same brush), eats anything and everything, dances at the first note of any type of music and is still sweet as ever. I am convinced she understands everything we say and do. She answers my yes/no questions with a nod or shake of her head. She has a little mischievousness in her which we could do without. She shakes her head no and laughs after she does something she knows she's not supposed to do (mostly throwing food on the floor or eating toilet paper). But, she's so darn cute, it really is hard to be mad!

Loves to drink from Mommy or Daddy's cup and is surprisingly good at it.





"If I were just a little taller, I could figure this thing out"



Playing ball with Daddy

 

 

I love to take things in and out of baskets, drawers, etc.
Mommy loves it when I throw all the folded laundry on the floor.

There she goes...

 

Eating my snack at my new big girl table

Ivey's First Christmas

We started our celebration with the Children's church service on Christmas Eve. Nana, Grandad, Gramma, Jamie, Roger, Philip & Natalie joined us too. Christmas morning was fun with Ivey! Joe and I both went in to get her and then we showed her what Santa had left for her. After breakfast, we all three opened our gifts. Ivey was playing with her toys and we had trouble getting her focused, but once the paper started ripping she was very interested.  We headed to Gramma & Grandad's for a late lunch and more celebrating. Ivey had a blast!

Look what Santa brought me!

future basketball star

tuckered out after all of the excitement