Party time! (picture overload)

Madison had her first birthday on Friday! We celebrated on Sunday with some of my extended family and then had a party for her on the 16th. It ended up just being Ana, my mom, Lori & Justin and Kristi's family, but we had a good time. For the Sunday party I made her an Elmo cake and an Elmo cupcake. I knew that if I just put a whole cake in front of her she would be very upset when I took it away but I didn't care if she ate a whole cupcake, so that is why I did both. She got some super cute clothes and some stacking cups and a touch-and-feel book (thanks, Wendi, Madie loves the book). It amazes me how quickly she learns things, it only took a couple of times reading the book before Madie knew where to feel on the pages.  

Here is the cake from her Sunday party

For her Saturday party, we had pizza and cupcakes and went swimming. Madie wanted nothing to do with the pool at first but she slowly warmed up to it. We took her again tonight and it didn't take as long for her to stop screaming (despite what the post date says, it is Monday night now). For that party I made several of the sesame street characters. I did Oscar,  Grover, Cookie and Elmo.

And because I didn't want to make 2 1/2 dozen sesame street characters, this is what I did with the rest:

Madie enjoying her Elmo cupcake

She wanted to share :)

Madie wanted to play with her toys as soon as she opened them, of course, and couldn't care less about the clothes she got (however, I am very greatful for all of the cute clothes she got). Thanks, Kristi, for the super cute Elmo farm play set.

Thanks Grandma 'roney for the animal zoo. Madie and Katie had fun with it before it was even out of the box.

Here are just some random pics from the two parties...

We don't call her "crazy auntie lolo" for no reason :)

Madie got this balloon from Kristi and Jenny and Katie, who stopped by on Madie's birthday to sing to her :)

This one's not from her birthday parties, but I think it is funny. She is really into climbing on things lately, including people, and she managed to climb onto me while I was laying on my side the other day. 

This is Madie's new church dress. It was originally going to be for Lori's wedding but then she changed her colors so Madie got it for her birthday. We got tons of compliments on Sunday about how cute she looked.  

I'll have her stats tomorrow for her weight and height and all of that. She says several words: mama, dada, birbir (which is bird), pupu (which is puppy), ball, no, uhoh, woah, up, and today she said home. She also waves hi and bye and can tell you what a monkey says. And get ready for pacie-free pictures. We try to only give it to her at bed time, since we switched carseats on Friday she no longer gets it in the car, but don't always. But we lost both of her pacies and I was planning on taking them away when we move in a couple of weeks anyway, so I was not going to go buy new ones tonight. She did fall asleep without any crying, surprisingly, so hopefully it won't be too terrible after all (although she gets shots tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes).