Party Time!

First some of Hadlee's stats. She is 31 inches tall (the 97 percentile) and 22 lbs (the 75 percentile). Brinlee was 2 inches taller and 5 lbs bigger :) so I call Hadlee "tiny". Brinlee has never been in the 75 percentile.
She can say: Momma, Dada, No no no, nose, a whisper version of whats that, meow, and copys a lot of what you say one time then forgets :)
She can: crawl super fast, loves to climb the steps, can walk holding on with one hand, stands for a little on her own, takes 2 steps, loves to dance, loves to sing, loves to be super loud when everyone is quiet, loves to give kisses, loves to hug her stuffed animals, loves to play with her big sister, loves to climb on Brinlee bed when Mom isn't watching.
She is super girly and super dainty and much more of a mommas girl than Brinlee. She is always happy and never really cries. She goes with the flow and rather watch than jump in and play. She is super sweet and we all love her to death

Now on to the party! We did a rainbow party

 Here are the invitations (thank goodness for pinterest:))

All her gifts

The dessert table

 The rainbow cake! I swear it weighed like 8 lbs. It took me 5 cans of frosting to frost it. No joke :) But I proud of it

 These were the favors.

 My cute little birthday girl

 Playing cake walk. You walk on the numbers til the music stops then I draw a number out of a cup and whoever is on that number wins a cake usually :) but we did stickers

 Pin the cloud on the rainbow

 Popping some bubbles. We had to have some baby games :)

 Opening her presents. She had a disgusted look on her face the whole time :) I don't think she like ripping it

 I wanted to buy this for her before she was even born, so I soon as I saw it on sale again I bought it and it has been patently waited in the basement for her birthday:)

 Cake time!

 She dove right in! I knew she would, she loves to get messy

 Seriously how cute is she?!

 She ate tons!

 All the kiddos

 This was here party at Grandma Judy's. I forgot her high chair so Dad just helped her eat a cup cake

It was a great birthday weekend! And I am completely partied out :)

Hadlee Rae

Seriously wasn't these pictures taken yesterday?! I can't believe my baby is 1! I love my Hadlee so much. She is a lot different than her sister. She likes to observe more than be in the spotlight, she doesn't talk near as much as Brinlee but she still talks a lot, she hardly ever cries, she is really timid on trying new things, for instance I am pretty sure she could walk if she tried but she still gets nervous just standing alone, she is a super girly girl already. She loves brushes and combs and bow and is constantly trying to bush mine or Brinlee hair. She even loves lotion and screams if I don't let her hold the bottle while I put it on her :) She is getting to be a little spunky lately. She thinks its funny to be mean to her sister:) I know I shouldn't think its funny but it kinda is :) I love her more than words can even express and can't imagine what my life would be like without her. She has overcome so much in her tiny life and I am so proud of her. Happy Birthday Hadlee Rae!!!!

My little Hadlee

My cute little Hadlee has been up to a lot lately. Last week on Tuesday she finally got her helmet off! Yippee! It was a long 17 weeks but totally worth it. Here head started off at a 11 millimeter difference and ended up at 4! They were aiming for 5 so I was so happy we got all the way to 4. It still is a little flat but nobody can probably notice besides the Dr and me. They said when she is around 12 it will be completely round.

The second great thing is we had physical therapy yesterday and it had been 2 months since the last time and that was the biggest break between sessions, so during the sessions her therapist kept taking notes on her lap top and asking questions about how I felt she was hitting her goals so I was excited thinking maybe she would say  we could go 6 months or something between the next one (just a side note, only a few months ago we had discussed how she would probably go to therapy for a few years just making sure everything was developing correctly) and then she told me there was really no need for us to come back. I started to cry! This past year has been so full of Dr appointments and uncertainty of Hadlee's arm and now she is completely done with it all! No more therapy! No more helmet! No more neurologist! We are just on watch now if she ever has problems with it or can't do a task because of it then we can go back in for some more therapy.
I am so grateful that she is all done and that her arm is nearly perfect and she wont even remember all she has been through to get it that way.

Dance Class

Brinlee is taking her first dance class! She absolutely loves it. Parents aren't allowed in to watch so we don't distract the kids but the other day they had a parents day so we could watch. It was so cute. She does such a great job. It is so amazing to me how big she is getting and I am very proud of her.

The Zoo

We took all the kids to the zoo a few weeks ago. It was really fun to have us all there. I love the zoo, it reminds me so much of my Mom. If she had a Dr appointment later in the afternoon up there we would always go to the zoo before. I am pretty sure I have been to the zoo more as an adult than a child.

 This silly monkey loves babies! He came right up to the glass and put his hand on hers. My camera didn't catch it in time but the hilarious thing is this happened to Brinlee when she was a baby too :) Love those little monkeys

Baby Brinlee with the monkey

 

 Pretended to be bears :)