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12 months

January 29, 2016

Well, here we are. Our last monthly photo shoot EVER!! Samantha at 12 months…

skb 12 months

Maxwell at 12 months…

mbb 12 months

and Spencer at 12 months…

spb 12 months

This baby is just a JOY. A happy, giggly, easy piece of pie!  except for maybe during the 5:00 to 6:00pm hour! 🙂

skb 12 months

skb 12 motnhs

Showing off her 4 teeth!

12 months sob

She’s a talker and has clear words – MaMa, DaDa, No No (complete with head shake and wag of finger!), Nigh Nigh (for night night), and Bye Bye. She can also sign for “more” and almost has “please” down too. She can patty cake and blow kisses and click her tongue and charm anyone she wants!

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skb 12 months

skb 12 months

She’s a great sleeper – still taking 2 naps a day – around 9am and 1pm. She goes to bed around 7pm and gets up around 6:30am. She’s still nursing 3 times a day but loves her food too! Butternut squash, apples, chicken salad, cheerios – she eats it up!

skb 12 motnhs

She’s not that interested in any of her toys – she much prefers to empty out the craft cabinet or pull things off the shelves of the pantry. She also loves to go poke around whatever her brothers are doing which produces many “Baby Noooo!” screams!

skb 12 months

(I mean…that profile!)

She’s not walking yet but pulls up on everything and cruises all around the furniture. Nothing is slowing her down!

skb 12 months

I love her. I love her so much. I know I keep saying this but I just can’t believe she’s real and she’s mine. We made it through the first year and I can’t wait to see what this little girl does in all the years to come!

skib 12 months

So, now we say “See ya!” to the monthly photo shoots!

12 months

Yep, bye-bye!

bye bye

bye bye

We love you sweet Samantha!!

skb 12 mths

Happy 12 months!

All the monthly photo shoots of all 3 babies here!

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Birthday Party!

January 28, 2016

We celebrated Samantha’s birthday last weekend with a little party, just the 5 of us! There were balloons, presents, and cupcakes from Olexa’s! Perfect!

skb bday 1

skb bday 1

bday party 1 sob

This picture cracks me up because they were looking up to see…

skb party 1

silly Dad!  🙂

bday party

Everyone loves a party hat!

party hat

We were all excited to celebrate our favorite baby girl!

1 bday party

1 bday party

bday party

skb bday party

After lunch, we opened presents! Well, Maxwell and Spencer opened presents. They’re such helpful brothers!  🙂

presents 1sst bday

frist bday

presents

presents

Baby was loving all the help and all the attention!

presents

presents

After that, it was time for the main event! Cake and a pink candle!

cake

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!

cake

Happy birthday Baby Mantha!
Happy birthday to you!

cake

Make a wish! (and I love love love this photo!)

cake

Then grabby hands 1 and 2 went in for the steal!

cake

Samantha got a perfectly pink strawberry cupcake for herself!

cake

And she had no trouble getting that thing into her mouth!

cupcake

Ohhh….so good! 🙂

cake

cake

Smash it in! Yum!

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cupcake

cake

The boys were loving how much she was loving the cupcake!

cupcake

and they were loving their own chocolate cupcakes!

cupcakes

It was the perfect little celebration for my perfect little girl!

first party

Happy Birthday Samantha!

samantha

Now, back to the cake! 🙂

cake

See you tomorrow!

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ONE

January 27, 2016

My sweet, lovable, huggable, kissable, perfectly plump, squeezable, bundle of love is ONE!!!!!!!

1 year ago today – on her due date! – at 1:04pm, this little piece of perfection joined our family.

skb 1/27/15

Now she is a giggly, happy ONE year old!

sob one year old

I didn’t let myself comprehend how much I wanted her. I didn’t know how much our family needed her. Now I can’t imagine how we ever lived without her. She’s the last piece of our little family puzzle and we’re now a full and joyful picture!!

skb one year old

one year old sob

I relive the day she was born a lot and it still makes me want to tear up. I still sometimes can’t believe that I have a baby GIRL!! Dream come true.

skb one year old

A few of my favorite Samantha posts from the past year…

Homecoming, Brotherly Love, Pretty Baby in a hat, Lovin from brothers, Three Pretty Babies in black and white, Easter in my old christening gown, 3 Little Monkeys, Fashion Show!, Almost roly poly, Good Morning!, Sitting up, Blue Jean Baby, the sweetest, the happiest, Samantha x 2, my babies, Baptism day, Baptism professional photos, Baby love, Lions Tigers and Pigs!, Christmas card follies, baby’s first Santa visit, baby’s first Christmas morning, Baa Baa.

Like I said one year ago, “it seems the sun is shining a little brighter, the birds are singing a little louder, and all is right in the world! Or maybe it’s just me and the high I’m still on from this sweet baby girl! ” One year later and I’m still on that high! I love this baby girl more than I thought possible.

skb one year old

Happy, happy first birthday Baby Mantha. Here’s to many, many more wonderful birthdays ahead! We love you!!

skb one year old

skb one year old

Now, go on, wish my sweet baby girl a Happy Birthday!  🙂 It’s a GREAT day to be ONE!

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Happy Baby

January 26, 2016

This happy baby will be celebrating a big birthday tomorrow!!

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happy baby

happy

Oh, how I have loved this past year!

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See you tomorrow to celebrate it!!

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Itty Bitty

January 25, 2016

Happy Monday! We had a good – and cold! – weekend around here. It started with a little wintry mix of Friday. Luckily it wasn’t cold enough for anything to stick – but it was cold enough to not want to be outside! Instead of letting the boys sit around on their iPads all day Saturday, I threw them in the car and we went up to the McWane Science Center to go to the Itty Bitty City. They loooove it up there and I can’t blame them – it’s really neat!

In Itty Bitty we played in the water area…

itty bitty

Cooked up some food in the restaurant…

itty bitty

Climbed all over…

itty bitty

and also went to the Vet’s Office and drove the Fire Truck! Once our time was up in Itty Bitty, we explored McWane a bit and dug for some dinosaur bones…

itty bitty

and of course spent time mesmerized by the ball machine in the lobby!

mcwane

A fun way to spend a cold morning! Now we’re ready for a great week ahead celebrating a certain baby girl’s FIRST BIRTHDAY!!

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