The life of new parents

We barely had enough cake for the Saturday party so we brought in reinforcements for Sunday to accompany monkey cake #2.

Auntie Kaitlin and Maya got some good bonding time in.  Uncle Lee spent all afternoon helping us get ready for the party and he was the grill master as well.

She’s getting the hang of this gift thing!

Maya loves her new brown baby from Lee & Kait.

In ducky pj’s before bed, taking the new trike from the Amberson’s for a joy ride.

We couldn’t have asked for a better weekend for our baby girl’s parties.  Everyone was so generous and helpful.  She got to spend a lot of time with her Grandma Jacobsen and her cousins and friends. She has so many new toys to keep her occupied, she just wakes up happy looking forward to rediscovering all the cool things people gave her for her birthday.  Thanks to everyone who showed up, helped out and spent time celebrating with us, we love and appreciate you all very much!

We had 2 parties for Maya this weekend.  On Saturday we invited her friends and a few neighbors.  On Sunday we had family and family friends over.

Maya wasn’t real sure what to think at first…

She quickly figured it out and demolished her little cake.  The sugar gave her such a shock she was up half the night!

Her cake was super cute and very yummy!

Maya and Sylvie love climbing the stairs together.

Monkey pj’s and a Curious George to end the day.

We started out the birthday weekend on Friday night with the arrival of Grandma Jacobsen.  The Amberson’s (minus Aunt Niki who was out of town for work and greatly missed!), came over and we all had dinner.  Grandma let Maya open her gifts from her on Friday night.

She wasn’t sure what to think, but soon figured out there were lots of fun things to be discovered inside the pretty packaging.  The tiny baby dolls were her favorite, they’re the first things she looks for when she wakes up in the morning and gets ready to play.

Maya decided to crash a card game after opening her gifts.