A laugh to start your weekend off right :-)

Thank God it's Friday!

But ohhhhhh, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. Where did we go wrong? We're about to get real, here and talk about toddler poop, so...yeah.

It all started when I took Gianna's diaper off around 4:30 pm on Wednesday.

She had a little bit of a rash, so I decided to just let her go diaper free (fresh air > diaper ointment). She was already a huge mess from an "art project" we did that involved paint (OMG SUCH A MISTAKE! More on that next week...), so my plan was to plop her in the tub pretty soon anyway.

MISTAKE!

All of a sudden, Gianna has pooped on her room rug.

I don't really freak out, but just think yikes and hmmm good healthy consistency (yeah because that's normal...) and pick her up and put her on the changing table. Then I look down.

OH NO. There is poop on the carpet too! It's on the bottom of my sock!

I look back at the rug and notice another small poop ball that must have dropped from her butt right before I picked her up! And I stepped in it! And then proceeded to take 2 more steps!

I stripped my sock off and carefully navigated Gianna to her crib so that I could gather my army of cleaning supplies to tackle the poo-mageddeon on the floor. She begins screaming that she's being left alone, of course, while I scrub the floor and pick up the...pieces. Yikes on that pun.

Mind you, she's still diaperless.

After cleaning up, we head to the tub. I've called Chris to tell him the story (which is pretty funny, in all honesty), but have to get off the phone quickly so I can fill the tub (it's quite loud on the phone). Aaaand 2 minutes later, Chris received the following message:

Happy Friday, everyone!

10 Peeks into our Week, 1 year old edition! (#12)

Gianna turned 1 on January 21st! It was a wonderful weekend, my mom and sister, Breana, came up to visit. I made a special allergy free coconut chocolate cake with whipped chocolate coconut cream frosting. It was delicious and absolutely whole food baked from scratch. (And, may I say...easy?). Gianna cracked us up with her cake antics (she'd never had any real amount of sugar, besides from fruit, before, so the raw honey really freaked her out I think)

Here is a bit of her first cake experience, along with our Happy Birthday renditions for your listening pleasure...(sorry about the sideways video at the end.....our video tech works for free ;-)

 

And a few minutes later...
 

Pretty much cracks me up, this girl. She's so civil with the cake.

She got a backyard swing, new clothes, stacking toys, a read in the dark book, her very own mei tei babycarrier, birthday money, and a ball from the Dollar Tree. Her favorite? Ball from the Dollar Tree. I didn't want to tell my mom "I told you so"...but...proof is in the pudding!

My future baby wearer

 
She just looks sooooooooo cute when she's walking around with her baby!

 

 Classic

1. One year old Gianna is so flipping cool. We have the best time. She's more snuggly and lets us give her kisses. She runs around everywhere. Her zany little personality is shining even more. She's trying to say lots of words and really communicate. She's just in general at the peak of her adorable-ness, in our opinions.

 I mean, honestly. Peak. Of. Adorable. Please excuse me while I drool over my daughter's beauty.

She does silly things like this

And walks around like this

And let's face it, it doesn't get much better than a 10 minute trip to the mailbox

2. We've been working on putting things "in". She's getting pretty stinking good at it and I love that she is proud of herself.

Enter upcycled containers and extra clothespins from our old laundry line. 5 minutes of entertainment and learning. Blam. Free.

Recycled paper towel tube and Dollar Tree pom poms.

Our most difficult challenge yet...the Piggy Bank. I let her try to put a few coins in every day. Sometimes she'll get one, mostly not. But she's getting way more accurate with her attempts and I love to watch her work.

3. I'm thinking we're going to start doing more "art" projects soon. We experimented a bit with crayons recently, and she only tried to eat them a few times, sooo that's a win, right? I think finger painting will be next, as well as molding clay.

Oh yes, and dry erase markers. This was after I told her the marker was "not food" (see #4)...

Yeah, she put it in her mouth. Like 3 times. Well, she's still alive and kickin', so it's all good.

4. I feel like the only things I say on most days are "not for baby", "not food", "no sounds with the mouth" (oh my goodness, especially at Mass). I should totally record those and just play them when I need to to save energy. It would also freak Gianna out so I would get a good laugh.



5. Y'all already know Gianna sings,but did you know she also plays the recorder? Augh, my heart can scarcely take it.

Here is the first time we heard her play it

And one of her more recent "concerts

6. Word count: mama, papa (which, truthfully, she doesn't say anymore, she just says mama regardless of who she wants), hi, bye-bye, thank you, ducky, and we're currently working on "please", "yes, mama", "no, mama"


7. The little conniving genius also found a way to hide food she doesn't feel like eating. She knows she'll get in trouble if she throws food off her highchair, so now,when I'm not looking she will deviously shove the food underneath/to the side of her seat. When I catch her, she smiles and tries to feed me the food...totally plays it cool. Tricky one.


8. Yeah, so I'm obsessed with the Dollar Tree??? The magical land of cheap, disposable fun and learning for Gianna is amazing.

9. Bought Gianna a membership to Rose Heights Community Life Center with her birthday money. They do seasonal memberships for $20, or a whole year for $80. It's a pretty sweet deal and we're going to try to go at least once a week. They have a "snack n play" area with tables and rides and play area and an outside playground. So much fun!

When I got her the membership, I let her run around outside a bit

Playhouse...this is her favorite

Flintstones!

Indoor playtubes and activity area below

Like a champ

I love it

With 2 of my friend Lisa's adorable kiddos, Elena and Roman. Elena totally took Gianna under her wing got Gianna totally interested in riding the horses. Too bad Gianna refused to hold on. Quite a delicate balancing act she performed there. 

Elena and Gianna

10. One last bit. Chris plays with Gianna in the morning before he goes to work so that I can sleep in a little bit more. Awesome, right? Well, Gianna knows I'm still in the room in bed and so now she walks up to the door and starts banging on it yelling MAMA! MAMA! MAMA!  Ahhhhhhhhhhh it's a good life!