Happy First Birthday, Gwennie!

Our big girl has turned one!!!  Unfortunately she woke up with a cold the day before and was sick during her birthday. Poor thing.  She did give me a few cute pictures before Grandma came over to babysit.  She and Grandma had a blast!

My home-made birthday banner!

Gwennie decided to crawl away instead of letting Mommy take her picture...a little cranky.

Big Birthday Girl!  Drool, runny nose, and all...

Her new thing...to point to things and say "da"

♥

Reading one of her favorite books...

Our little bookworm!

There's the smile I was looking for!

Today we went to the doctor for her 1 year appointment.  She had to get a finger prick and some shots...poor thing.  She was a trooper and calmed down pretty quickly.  She is 27.75" long and weighs 17lbs7oz.  The doctor says she's perfect and can have even more table food and start some whole milk instead of formula.  She's just growing up so fast.

 

Gwennie's birthday is this coming week...Thursday!!!  The big ONE!

 

melted crayon suncatchers

no-bake cookies

these are:  pretzels, Hershey's hugs, and M&M's...so yummy!

Thank you!

We're on the move!!!

Gwennie is 10 months old!  How fast does the time fly!  And...we're crawling!  She's a bit slow and wobbly, but she's getting it!  Bella isn't too thrilled about it and better get practicing running away from her.  Gwennie likes her tail.  :-D 

   She had a great first Christmas and it was good seeing a lot of family!  By the end, Gwennie had unwrapping gifts mastered!  :-D  I have the rest of this week off and I go back to work January 3rd.  I am looking forward to the time with Miss G.  She is growing up so fast and I love watching her. 

Here's her 10 month photo and a few Christmas ones taken by Theresa...

bows...

It's bow making here at the Ritscher household while Chris has to work late.  Pray for him...work is rough right now and running him ragged.  He has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders and I know he's stressed. 



My first attempt at rosettes...

More yo-yo's...

Another first for this type of bow...

video...

So I had tried uploading a video of Gwennie eating her puffs...but it didn't work.  So here is a link to my facebook with the video.  Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=625770331052

...If you can't see it, I will try and upload the video again soon.

Solid Foods!!!

Gwennie ate her stage 3 food...and some puffs cereal today.  She had originally gagged and spit up.  I think the texture wasn't something she liked...but we made progress today!  It was so cute!

Also...Chris and I along with Mary (Chris's Mom) went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert last night!  It was great...as usual!  Loved it!  Gwennie had her first sleepover at my parents house and was a very good girl.  I missed her, but got to sleep in until 7.  :-D

Stuff...

Busy, busy, busy now that work is going again after Thanksgiving break...I finished my yo-yo flowers off with some buttons...haven't had time to make any new ones yet...here's some pictures from last weekend and brunch with Gwennie's grandma and grandpa.  She was playing with Grandpa for a bit.  Then there's one of her winter hat that was a gift from a coworker of mine. I was so excited for her to be able to wear it!  :-D 

She was very serious in all of these...but she was giggling and smiling when I put the camera away...

flowers and bows...

Good Morning!  Gwennie is still acting like herself...but still sounding congested and coughing a lot.  Not fully sleeping through the night yet either.  While she napped/played with Daddy I was making some bows and flowers yesterday...here they are...

These are called Yo-yo's...I think I will put some buttons in the middle or something...

One for Christmas and one for fall

The rest...one is from Halloween.  I hadn't glued it together yet. 

I think my next flower I will try is a rosette...we'll see how that goes.  I'm also knitting a hat for her...that's taking awhile.  I had to relearn how to knit. :-D

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Ok...after a bit of a fussy first thanksgiving...we are posting the 9 month pictures and a thanksgiving one too!  Gwennie woke up with a cold yesterday...runny nose and cough.  Poor girl.  We tried some table food...but she would just gag and not eat it.  I think the texture is not something she likes/is ready  for yet.  Maybe she will be ready by Christmas.  She's feeling better today and more like herself!  I'm also posting a picture of the hair clip I made to match her turkey shirt!  Enjoy!