New York Princess!

Angelique danced around the house in her beautiful new princess dress that her Aunt Nicole brought her from New York. She actually wore the dress all day long with no complaints. Which is really good considering she is always on the move and dresses seem to really slow her down most of the time. I think that she enjoyed the fun of grabbing the bottom of her dress and letting it fly around her.

Playing With Bubbles & Learning to Walk!

Over one of the weekends that Phil and Amanda came down to help work on the sprinkler system, we thought it might be fun to buy a bubble blowing machine! Angelique just loved to watch all of the bubbles falling around her. She had a great time popping the bubbles and then wanting to figure out how to make more bubbles appear! Once she learned how to get the purple cow to work she did a great job making her own bubbles.

By the next weekend (the last weekend of April going into May) Our little Monkey surprised us all and took off running. There is NO stopping this girl now. She is a walking machine! We are so proud of her and this great accomplishment. She walks all over the house and through the stores now. It is so amazing how she picked it up and just has gotten so far with it. She has mastered bending over and picking up toys around her and then she just keeps going! Here are a few more pictures of her roaming around the house and even outside helping her Daddy move dirt for the new lawn that we are putting in the backyard to go with our new sprinkler system.

Ace Ventura Pet Detective!

Angelique spent the day with her Aunt Nicole and her Daddy and look at what happened to her hair! It was in piggy tails when Mommy left for work that morning and somehow through the course of the day the rubber bands sprung loose and what we had left was what looks like "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" wanna be! As long as the munchkin is happy that is all anyone can ask for right. It seems as if all is well in our world these days. Serge is healthy again and he and Angelique are having a great time playing together. Serge helped Angelique try on some shoes that she felt she just had to get on her feet to see what they were all about. What do you all think? Of her new style? It didn't last long. Angelique is definitely NOT a shoe or sock type of girl! She seems to live for free piggy toes! Hey who can blame her right? Other news to tell .... Angelique has braved her first few steps. The most we have seen out of her thus far is 3 big steps and then straight to her bottom once she realizes what she is doing. She just doesn't seem to be interested in the whole idea of walking. I can't blame her though, she is a super cruiser on her hands and knees. WOW!! can she crawl fast!

Battle Of The Cold Season

No new pictures to post today! But it has been so long since we have posted anything so I thought that I should send out a little update. We have all been battling the fun cold season! Angelique is working on her 2nd cold so far but she is on the mend! Serge recently had surgery so he is not allowed to pick up Angelique ... which makes her want her Daddy more than usual! Another 4 weeks until he can pick her up again! Both are dealing well with the transition.

Since Angelique's birthday she has been doing quite a bit! She is sleeping through the night pretty much all the time these days and is constantly on the move. She has not taken the plunge into walking yet but I am certain she is well on her way. One of these days soon she is just going to let go of that couch and be on the move.

Angelique was the taste tester of the icing to make sure that it was good enough to be on the cake! I think that we passed the taste test. She hollered at us the rest of the afternoon to feed her MORE and MORE icing!

Grandma worked hard to get the icing on the cake and started to work on the polk-a-dot border around the bottom of the cake. It took awhile to get the colors just right and get the decorating underway but once we got started there was no stopping the creative flow! After some tracing of the invitation onto the top of the cake the decorating continued. It really was pretty easy to decorate this cake, I was worried that it would be hard and turn out looking funny. Angelique continued to help Mom and Grandma with the decorating by making sure that she was in on the action the whole time, meaning she would NOT let us put her down for a second. After getting the "ONE" on the cake Mommy had to run out the door and go see the doctor! So, Grandma finished up the border on the big cake and started working on cupcakes and the cake that we decorated for Angelique to dig into and make a mess with (which she did not do! She was so good with her cake). After hours of hard work the 2 cakes and numerous cupcakes were decorated and ready for the big party!!

I don't think I could have gotten all of the decorating done if Grandma had not been there to lend a hand by helping ice cakes, babysit while I ran to the doctor and chase the munchkin around while we took turns adding decorations to the cake!

Happy Birthday little Monkey!

February 9th!!! Angelique's first birthday. Celebrated on Saturday the 10th just so that we could be sure to have all our family and friends with us to celebrate the big day. Angelique had so many people at her party, it was a great time. That is after she decided to wake up from a little snooze on Grandpa's shoulder . Once we had her up and moving again she was ready to sing happy birthday and eat her very own cake. Mom and Dad were expecting a huge mess after the excitement Angelique showed the day before eating the icing that was being used to decorate her special cake .... Pictures of that special cake to come once Grandma and Grandpa send us the pictures from their camera, also there are pictures of the cake in the process of being created! We had a really good time decorating the cake... After eating a little bit of cake the munchkin was ready to get down and start opening her presents! Amazing enough there was not a huge mess to clean up! What a dainty little one we seem to have so far!

First the task at hand was to wash that little face off, not an easy task when it comes to Angelique (I think this is the worst part of eating for her). After that ordeak we were ready to see what kind of great presents she was getting for her first birthday.

Angelique had a great time opening all of her wonderful gifts that she recieved. The toys were a big hit for her and the CLOTHES her Mom and Dad appreciated very much! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ALL OF THE WONDERFUL GIFTS THAT YOU GAVE TO ANGELIQUE FOR HER FIRST BIRTHDAY!

THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AND SHARING THIS WONDERFUL DAY WITH US, WE APPRECIATED EVERYTHING!

Celebrating Great Grandma's 80th Birthday!

Great Grandma Major agreed that celebrating her 80th Birthday a week early would be OK so that we can celebrate Angelique's birthday the next weekend. Great Grandma will turn 80 on February 10th, the day after Angelique's 1st birthday. Angelique loves to hang out with her Great Grandma.

Celebrating Birthdays is always so much fun! It was so nice to have all of the family together to celebrate what a wonderful woman Great Grandma, Grandma and Mom (the woman of many names a talents!) truly is. We all LOVE her very much!

Great Grandma got to have 2 cakes at her party! Lucky lady! And she even shared some of that Boston Creme Pie that Ken made with Angelique. Her first real taste and she really seemed to like it! But hey what kid doesn't love sweets right! Great Grandma was just helping Angelique get practiced up to dig into her own cake this coming weekend!

New Years Resolutions!

As you can see Angelique is a great stair climber! Our New Years Resolution is to REMEBER TO PUT UP THE BABY GATE!!! Angeliue just loves to climb up the stairs and have us chasing behind her!

A new begining ....

We are going to try and keep this website updated with all the important information about Angelique and how much she is growing up. I cannot believe that it has been a full year now since she joined our family. I will try and keep current pictures posted for everyone! Especially since we are such a picture happy family. There are so many different pictures to chose from!

Recently Angelique has learned to climb the stairs at the house. It has become a fun game of climbing to the top to see if anyone is coming after her, then trying to teach her that she needs to turn around to come back down! What a chore that is! She insists that Head First is the ONLY way to make it back down the stairs!

Now she has not started to talk so much yet, at least not in words that we can really understand, she yells loud (a good set of lungs from the start) and likes to make the silliest sounds and funniest faces to let us know what she is thinking. If only we could really understand what she was saying! I am sure we would be getting a real ear full.

I hope that you all enjoy this website and that I can keep it up to date for you all.