Happy 1st Birthday Etta Rose!

Today Addie's co-op class got to do a fun field trip.
We walked to a local nursery where we planted pansies in pumpkins, explored a hay maze,
said hello to some chickens, and let the koy fish try to eat our fingers.
Meanwhile, where was the birthday girl?

We left her behind at school & her & the boys tried to break free. 

I don't know if you can tell, but it is not a happy look on her face. 

She is making it clear she wanted me to set the camera down & pick her up. 

But I could not resist a quick photo-op.

Let's see, how about a quick update on 12 month old Etta...
Etta does not show much interest in walking, all her attention is going into climbing.
She is slowly getting better at safely getting down the things she climbed up.
She has recently learned about a few favorite buttons on toys she can push to make music.
So these get pushed again, and again, and again.
I remember Addie going through that stage too.

Birthday celebration #2: her actual day of birth

 Addie helped pick out the presents for her at the store.
The pop-its toys were chosen I think because Addie really wanted to play with them :)

 We tried a mini-brownie cupcake with Halloween colored frosting thinking that it was smaller so would be less messy and she would be getting cake over the weekend.

Etta was not very interested in eating it, but she had great fun sharing bites with her sister. 

Addie was happy to comply.