One Year Old (plus a month or so)

I cannot believe that Kenzli is already ONE! She is growing up so fast. Her birthday was an adventure...we decided that instead of having family come over to our house that we would celebrate her birthday at my parent's house so they did not all have to drive so far. Her birthday was on a Friday so I decided to head over as soon as Sariah was done with preschool so I would have time to decorate the cupcakes. On the way over, my car overheated so we got stuck in the middle of downtown Phoenix. My mother-in-law met us there and we got some coolant and got it all worked out and I ended up getting to my parents later than anticipated. Since Kenzli had missed her nap and all of us girls were hot and tired, we decided to postpone the birthday celebration until the next afternoon.

So the next day, we had a little party with pizza, presents, and cupcakes. She is fascinated by dolls...whenever we go to the store, I always go by the dolls that make noise and she just laughs and laughs. She loved her new cabbage patch doll and of course her new blanket.

Then it was time to sing and blow out the candles.
She dug right in and got all messy but loved every minute of it.

I was impressed with how much of her oversized cupcake she was able to eat. I am sure she would have kept going but I decided she had had enough.

She loved walking around with her new toy!!!

She is such a joy to have around and is always so happy. It has been a fun year and I can't wait for more!

Stitches!!!

NOTE: PICTURES AHEAD ~ LOOK AT YOUR RISK :)

Sariah is our rough and tough, girly girl. She loves to run, jump, play hard yet is so sweet and tender at the same time. She usually falls hard and then jumps up and reassures us that she is okay. When she falls and cries, you know to react because it either REALLY scared her or it HURT!

A couple days ago, she was playing around and fell off a kitchen chair and smacked her chin. It hurt her pretty bad and she cried pretty hard. We talked about how she needs to settle down and be more careful so she doesn't get hurt. It didn't slow her down though. She is always running around the house. Since she learned to walk, she has RUN pretty much non-stop.

So...now to the story...this morning while watching conference, she was running out of her room carrying princess shoes in one hand and a princess dress in another. She must have tripped on her dress and since her hands were full, she could not brace for the fall. She smacked her chin on the tile and INSTANTLY started crying HARD. Jake went and picked her up to console her. Once they sat down, he wanted to check her teeth (naturally) to make sure she didn't hurt anything and noticed that she was bleeding. She didn't bleed hard but the gash was pretty deep. We got her calmed down, put a bandaid on it and started getting ready to head to the doctor. She was so sad about not getting to see President Monson that we let her finish watching the morning session and then headed to urgent care. After a fairly tramatic doctors visit (of which I will spare you the details) and three stitches to show for it, she wanted to head to Target for a new toy. Of course, we were happy to allow it and off we went. She wanted me to take a picture of her new fairy and new cool-pack for any future injuries. We also took a picture of the HUGE bandaid they put on her for her "scrapbook" (she loves to look at her scrapbooks and all the pictures).

We had to clean the cut and put on a new bandaid tonight so she got to see the stitches. She looked at herself in the mirror very seriously and we talked about how the string would hold her skin together until it can heal so it doesn't keep bleeding. She just stayed serious for a minute and then started laughing and said, "It looks like I have a spider on my chin." She just kept saying it and laughing harder and harder. It was so cute. Hopefully she will sleep good tonight and won't have any pain. She endured enough pain at the doctor's office. It was one of the moments as a parent where you feel so helpless and bad for your child. I was glad I was able to be in the room but it was really hard to watch her be so upset and not be able to do anything about it. I hope we don't have to go through anything like this again for a VERY LONG TIME!!!

"The wound"

Her new fairy, Rosetta and cool-pack
HUGE bandaid
The "SPIDER"