Kamryn's First 1st Birthday party!

This little girl is spoiled! (and very loved!) I think she is going to have 3 1st Birthday parties this year! What a life! :)

For the 4th, we got together with extended family for a BBQ and swimming and movies and just visiting, AND to celebrate all of the summer bdays within the family. Kamryn is the youngest this summer, so everyone sang to her first! She wasn't quite sure what was going on, but liked all the attention.




And then she got to open 6 presents! She was so excited about each of them too, so thank you everyone who gave her something! :)

Bubbles and a Water toy from Aunt Donelle.



Card from Great Grandma (G.G.)


Box of Board Books from Aunt Janice! (Kamryn LOVES these!!)




What is this next one, Kamryn?



Look Kamryn, it's a baby doll!



And some PJ's! (She didn't care too much about these...what 1-year-old would! These were definitely more for Mommy!!) :)


I don't want to put the baby down, but what's this next big one?!


It's a stroller for your baby!


Let's let Daddy put it together for you!! :)

Enjoying Ice Cream while Daddy puts together her stroller! :)


Look at me! I'm a big girl!

I can walk and push the stroller! (Since she's still just a little unsure of walking without holding onto something! This is wonderful for her right now!)

All cleaned up from swimming--wearing my new PJ's. My pants are a little too long though :(


Aunt Kelsey to the rescue! (Kamryn doesn't think to stop at all for Kelsey to fix them though!) :)

Thanks Kelsey! That's much better!


Kamryn...enjoying bubbles (from Aunt Bev) for the first time! She was so funny--belly laughing everytime she popped a bubble! :)


When it got dark, we all went outside to watch fireworks. Kamryn liked them at first...but then was just too exhausted! Sweet baby!



My sisters and cousin, watching fireworks (and being strange...like usual! :) haha)



Sorry it's blurry...but mommy and daddy watching fireworks!


Happy 1st 4th of July, Kamryn! We love you, sleepy girl!

First Toothbrush!

Kamryn has her 2 bottom teeth completely grown in now, so we decided while we were at Target the other day, that we needed to get her a toothbrush. We got her one with piglet on it and Baby Einstein toothpaste! They're both so so cute!

Here's what Kamryn thought of it the first time!








She LOVES IT! With or without toothpaste! But she's also good natured when we take it away too! What a good baby!

First Popsicles

We ran to Target for a few things for the apartment and I decided to try Target brand Popsicles. When we got home I decided to try one...Kamryn wanted to try it too!


Mmmmm... That's good!


Don't take it away!!! No, come back!


This is yummy, Dad! (Behind the camera)


Mommy wants a turn--I gotta keep my eye on it though!


Mommy sharing HER popsicle!


I can hold it now, Mom!

Funny girl!
(And of course our lips were blue afterwards! no picture though... :( what was I thinking?!) :)

Stranger Anxiety

Kamryn has hit the stage in life where strangers (or people she doesn't see often enough) are scary. She'll get shy and put her head down on my shoulder or Ryan's shoulder if an unfamiliar female says hi to her. If it is a male, however, she SCREAMS!!! It has gotten better over the past month, meaning she doesn't scream as much anymore, but it was so funny the first couple of times it happened!

For example, I was with her at Wal mart maybe a month ago and we were in the checkout line. There was an older gentleman behind us and he caught Kamryn's eye. She sat there for the longest time watching him wave at her and baby-talk to her, then suddenly she started SCREAMING like she was in pain! I just laughed and the man laughed and I told him "It's okay. She's really tired and just fussy today" but he replied, "No. I'm just awful. I do the same thing to my grandkids!" I thought that was funny. Kamryn kept crying and crying and crying until we got into the car and drove away! Funny girl!

She has even been afraid of Kelsey's friend, Tyler, multiple times. She wouldn't even take food from him the other night, which is unusual for Kamryn--who never refuses food! :) BUT then a couple of days later, Kelsey and Tyler came to visit and play with Kamryn. This is what happened!

Sitting with Aunt Kelsey...

Let's try to sit with Tyler...


Ok! I'm good here with a cell phone! :)

It was so cute! Tyler and Kelsey were SO surprised! Maybe Kamryn is just tempermental! If you give me something I want more, I don't care WHO you are! :)

First Easter!

Kamryn's first Easter compromised of 2 different "parties"...both NOT on Easter! :)

We were going to be driving to California on Easter Sunday this year and my parents were going to be in China over Easter Sunday...so we had to celebrate early!

So, the Sunday before Easter, we spent the day with my family. My family's Easter Bunny makes finding baskets difficult some years....he strings different colors of yarn around the house and the kids have to follow their color to find their basket! Here's what the front room looks like in the morning! :)



Kamryn was able to crawl underneath all of it! Didn't affect her much...

...till she saw it from above!! :)

The Easter Bunny brought Mommy and Daddy big bowls of candy....

and brought Kamryn a soft pink bunny! She wasn't so sure about it at first!


This green dress was also a gift from Grammy...kinda 'Eastery' so I wanted to take more pictures of her in it. This is what I got!








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She kept moving and moving and moving! :) It was so funny! Some of them turned out kinda cute though! :) She dove for my camera a couple times too! Such an electronic guru already!

The other Easter celebration we had was with Ryan's family... Saturday before Easter Sunday. (They were also all going out of town on Easter Sunday! haha)

Kamryn got a Little Einstein Toy Piano that she LOVES! It's a little old for her to understand it all but she loves pushing all the buttons and making it light up. Grandma and Grandpa also got her a Peter Cottontail book that sings when you open it. She also loves that! She played with both on our trip to California this past week!

Ryan and I gave Kamryn a Winnie the Pooh toy for Easter. It spins and talks and has lights and colors. She loved it at the store so we thought we'd get it for her for Easter!

(And I just realized I don't have any pictures of either toy with her! Yikes! I'll have to get some and come back and edit this post! oops!! I think I had forgotten my camera that night. I wonder if Grandma Linda got any pictures that night.)

Anyway, Happy Easter Kamryn! We love you!