"Go!"

I forgot to mention one very important part of the birthday. Lydia was being held by Grandpa Sullivan and was not too happy about it, so not happy about it that she took her first steps in order to get away from him! (This is not to say that my Dad's grandpa skills are lacking, she is just easily frightened by men.) It was a wonderful moment, one that I'm so glad I got to be part of since I see so little of my niece. Well that got us thinking, if Lydia can do it, is Rebekah ready? So we tried, and that girl took her first steps minutes after Lydia! These girls are going to be best friends, reaching every milestone together, having joint birthday parties, and everything else a girl could want in a cousin with such a small age gap as 6 days! I'm so lucky to have been able to share something so wonderful as pregnancy with my sister. We are 6 years apart so it has been really good for our relationship to be able to talk about our babies together and to finally understand the other's situation a little better. It's like we're on the same level now, and I'm loving the friendship we are forming.


Anyway, walking baby. So tonight, less than a month later, she's still been taking only about 3 steps on her own, but she does enjoy her little walker-toy-thing. Not sure what they're called, but Bekah calls it "go", so that's what I call it! Tonight we went over to Chelsey and Cody's new apartment (which is so beautiful and amazing! I'm so happy for them!) and we all got Bekah excited and had her walking back and forth till she sat down and cried from exhaustion. But before that, we had fun. And man was she walking! I don't know how many steps she took without assistance, but it was tons! I am so proud of how smart and healthy my little girl is, but it's a tiny bit hard to look at her and see that she's leaving baby-hood and entering toddlerhood.

Birthday for the Baby

We had an awesome time celebrating Rebekah's first birthday. I hung up a birthday banner on Monday and sang every version of birthday tidings I know at least 3 times each, each day. That equals at least 12 times of us pointing to the banner while I sang and Bekah bounced to the beat. Yeah, I'm a good birthday singer. Friday afternoon my sister Heather came up with her husband and two kids, then my parents showed up and the party really started. We went to dinner then came back to have some dessert and open presents. The Logan Family was present (Brett, Jess, Cody, and Chelsey) which made for a cozy living room and tons of fun.

Brett being hilarious, as usual.

Wrapping paper was a big hit!

So was the ball from Heather

And the horse from Chelsey and Cody. Look at her ride!

Sweet Lydia who is six days older than Rebekah and has lots and lots of curly hair.
She enjoyed the wrapping paper, too.

Did I mention the horse was a favorite? She says "Nay" all the time and kisses him.

And she calls the ball "Maaal" and likes to "k" (kick) it.

We stripped the girls down so they could enjoy some birthday cupcakes

I have a video of the girls enjoying their cupcakes but I can't get it to load, so I'll put it on Facebook and just tell about it here. Basically, Rebekah thought the icing was awesome and got it all over her face and hands. Lydia had already eaten a large dinner and some of her mom's cupcake, so she was not interested in her own cupcake at all. In fact. Heather tried feeding some icing to her but it was rejected very emphatically! So Bekah demolished Lydia's cupcake as well!

She decided to come climb on me after her feast.

Then both girls got put in the bath. And James later joined them!