Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Birthday celebrations and birthday shirt

Lucy has taken her first few steps on her own! She took the first steps on Sunday when we were celebrating her birthday with my grandparents and uncle and cousins. Since then she's taking 4 or 5 steps at a time. She thinks it's really funny, and usually collapses laughing in my arms when she gets to me.

We've had a fun week celebrating Lucy's birthday. My grandmother came over to babysit Lucy on Thursday while I worked; it was nice for her to be with us on Lucy's special day.


Lucy enjoyed opening her presents, especially the little cards and tissue paper.

Here she is in her new birthday dress.


Grandma Judy and Uncle Todd gave Lucy the cutest little chair. She likes sitting in it and reading books, though after a little while she always wants to get moving again!


We're continuing the "birthday shirt" tradition which my parents did with Caitlin and I (my dad got the idea from Mad Magazine, funnily enough). You get an adult-sized shirt for your baby (ideally from the locale where she is born) and take a picture of her in it every year until she turns 18. Caitlin is also carrying on the tradition with Sam.
We got so many fun pictures of Lucy in her shirt, I'm not sure which we'll choose as the official 1-year old shot. I think maybe this first one...
And a couple more we liked:

3 comments:

Sam and Mom said...

I love these pics! I think the first one is a more "classic" 1st year bday shirt pic, but I adore the third. She's beaming and she's even holding up 1 finger :-) She's such a cutie! Oh, and I do love her reading in her chair- also amazingly sweet.

Anonymous said...

The third is the best but my vote is for the middle one since she is by herself.

and I love the chair picture as well.

Team Jones said...

these pics are so cute!