Happy 1st Birthday Helen!!!

Today May 19, 2009 we celebrated Helen's first birthday. We went down to the beach for a little bit and then came back and had some ice cream cake. She loved the taste of the ice crem, but wasn't too sure about touching it. She would take a big bite of ice cream cake, but then she would get brain freeze and cry, all the while wanting more ice cream to put into her mouth.
We will be doing a big barbeque on Saturday for her.
Mom and Dad are having a great time, and really enjoying their visit.

A week of firsts part 1

Ok, so Helen started out on one side of the room, and then crawled over to the couch and started walking back to the side she had just come from. Like I said, getting pictures of your baby walking is not easy. I hope the pictures explain what her first steps looked like.

A week of firsts part 2

Ok, it's really hard to get a good picture of your kid taking her first steps. So, these pictures are appearing in the order they were taken to tell you the story of how she made it from the couch to the other side of the room where our TV is.

A week of firsts part 3

Well, the grandparents have been here a whole week, and we've managed to pack a lot into that one week. Let's see, Helen decided it was time to get up off the knees and took her first steps towards her Grandpa last Thursday. Of course, Mom didn't have the camera ready, so these pics were taken a little while later the same evening.