good morning, daylight saving!

yesterday it was 6:30... today it was a bit before that.

and you have to snap fast
because she holds still for max 1 second at a time

waking early is fine by me.... as long as it means a 2 nap day.
::crosses fingers::

but she is sweet. man, is she ever sweet.

hope you're savoring the daylight.
love.

it's my party and i'll cry if i want to

but she didn't want to, thankfully, and that made this party a great success.

on the way home. all birthday'd out.

so thanks to aunt auty and unc G for hosting and fixing a delicious dinner for everyone!  and thanks to the family for attending and bringing such wonderful presents. i think we've all had fun playing this week. :)

love.

Oh, this kid. She's something. And I'll refrain from saying "how has a year already gone by??" a million times, even though I sort of feel like it.  Instead, I'll tell you what Immy's been up to. K?  K.

She loves to eat. Anything (yes, this includes paper and rocks and all manner of other non edibles). I'm very glad I got matched up with a nonpicky baby. Now there is someone in the family that will eat tuna salad with me. And mushrooms! And and and... I'm lucky. I know. And I hope it holds.

She loves books. She has a pile of board books on her play mat in the living room and she usually starts the day paging through them, and I'll catch her going back to look at them several times throughout the day. She likes to sit in my lap and look at them, too, although she doesn't have patience to hear all the words on the page before needing to turn it.

She's crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything, but she hasn't attempted any steps on her own yet.

Naptimes  are different every day, it seems like, which makes it a tad bit hard to plan stuff since I'm not sure if she'll be sleeping, or tired, or whatever. But she's a pretty good carseat napper, and that's fantastic. (unless we say "oh, she'll fall asleep in the car." because that jinxes it every. single. time.)

She doesn't like growing teeth, and I've lost track of how many shes got in there -- probably 8+.

She hates having her nails clipped. And that makes two of us. 

She had her first bloody lip last Friday --  from falling. :(

She loves playing with Mr. K and with Reagan. Right now we're just trying to protect Davie until she gets bigger and stronger :) -- but Imogen loves "talking" to Davie on my old, out of use cell phone... I think she calls Davie about seven thousand times a day.

She likes to play the piano. She sets her little hands on the keys and then lifts and plays with her second finger. Only her second finger.  It's going to be hard to play scales that way.

She likes to talk and she's trying new words all the time. She can tell you what the dog says and what the cow says. She can say daddy (dada), mama, paula, dog, bottle (baba), night night (nighnigh), uh oh, banana, Nonna, Boppa, Davie (sounds like dada), and Dr. Tull (sounds like 3 syllables da-da-ta).

She has taken to saying 'yeah' if you ask her a yes or no question. Like: Hey Immy, are you 1? And she goes, "ya.".  And then you can keep asking her all kinds of cool questions and she'll say "ya."  Very cute.

She had her one year photos taken last Saturday by Mr. K's mama   (the photos in this post and the last are part of that shoot) and I love them!   (3 cheers for photographer friends!!)

So, all in all it's been a wonderful year with our daughter!  We're so glad we get to keep her.

She's having a little birthday party tomorrow -- so I'll try and post a couple of pics.

Much love to you all.

365 days

that was then:

this is now:

oh, little girl. thank you for coming to stay with us. we'd like to think you looked down and picked us especially to be your daddy and mama. but we mustn't kid ourselves, now should we? for why would something so precious, so sweet, choose us out of all the other people in this world?  we know we're blessed and we pray every day that you will feel God's love because of us... as we have felt God's love because of you.

happy birthday, imogen!

(amazing photos courtesy of Mr. K's mama)

do you hear the people sing?

This is the Kennedy Center:

This is the revolution:

These two were happy to be in on it:

So ya, we had the great fortune to be able to go up to D.C. for the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables (our all-time favorite'est show).  The only sad part for T was when he was reading the playbill page on audience etiquette and he discovered this:  Rule #7 THOU SHALT NOT TALK, or hum, or sing along, or beat in time with a body part.

We all know how difficult this is, right?

Anyway, it was a super fun time. We also enjoyed some shopping and some tex-mex and some famous national landmarks (thanks to a couple of directional missteps :).    Biggest ever thanks to Nonna (my mom) for staying with Imogen (who was sorely missed by her parents).  Immy had just as good a time as we did -- having fun with her Nonna and her Grammi (frozen yogurt also played a part :).   And she even got to see Boppa, Davie, Unc G, and Aunt Auty for dinner.  So, thanks again Mom, for looking after her!

Another fun weekend in store!  Hope you all are well.

the second shower

Last Tuesday evening was the shower for my dear cousin, Kristen.  Here she is, looking pretty.

Everything looked nice and tasted delicious, and the momma-to-be got lots of nice things. So I would call that a successful baby shower.  Now all we have to do is wait around for a few more weeks... and then there'll be more friends for Immy to attack.  Naw, I think she's getting better at actually playing with her friends. :)

So ya, yay for showers... double yay for new babies!!

Have you not known? 
     Have you not heard? 
            The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, 
             neither faints nor is weary. 
                    His understanding is unsearchable. 
                         He gives power to the weak, 
                          and to those who have no might He increases strength. 
                         
      Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. 
     
                       But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; 
                              they shall mount up with wings like eagles; 
                                    they shall run and not be weary; 
                                           they shall walk and not faint.


Isaiah 40:28-31