Recent Tato Pictures

Tato's First Birthday!

So Tato's Birthday was a month ago, and I'm just barely blogging about it! That's it, I'm fired as this household's blogger. Anyways, her birthday went really well and we were so excited to have the whole family there. (well almost the whole family, missed you guys who couldn't be there) We had a BBQ (my favorite) and then we had cake and opened presents, and then we visited while the kids (and the bigger kids : ) played football. It was perfect weather and a great day.




Here is Tato eating her cake. As you can see she is really enjoying it. Well, until mommy takes away the candle that is.

Yeah, she is not happy. She cried for quite awhile after I took the candle away, not realizing that the cake in front of her is still ripe for the picking.

Then someone had the ingenious idea of giving her a spoon, which she was quite happy about.

She then happily proceeded to smooth down the cake for about 15 more minutes. There are too many cute cake pictues to post, but here are just a few more.

Camping

We went the camping the week of the 24th of July and although we didn't get too many pictures, I promise Tato was as cute as ever and she had a lot of fun! I didn't get to go four wheeling because of the whole being pregnant and all, but I still had a lot of fun and my favorite part was making smores at the campfire. It was Tato's first time camping, and her first time having spaghetti!

Red Square (not the one in Russia)

Oh my goodness where to begin. Yeah it's been two months since I've blogged anything! I just haven't wanted to for some reason. Not like I haven't had time. Well I'm just gonna break it up into a few shorter posts. This one will be about Tato's red square. She absolutely loves satin, and there happens to be two red satin squares on the quilt that Jessica helped me make. Anytime she is near that blanket she searches for the red square, sticks her thumb in her mouth, and strokes the red square. At first I just thought it was the color, but later I noticed her doing the same thing at night with her crib blankie (which has two pink satin squares). Now sometimes it is the only thing that will calm her down when she throws a fit. Just throw the blanket over your shoulder making sure the red square is positioned on your shoulder and she'll lay on you and suck her thumb. It's really quite funny I think.