Maia Turns One!

Maia's fist birthday start with a bang! Sean and I spent the night before assembling this bad boy and at first Maia wasn't sure what to do with it. Once the music started playing and she saw what the balls could do she got really excited. 

 My Aunt Jill sent us this awesome chair for Maia.

 Sean had school that day so we picked him up and took him on a picnic to celebrate Maia's birthday.

 We had these awesome chicken salads and Maia loved the chicken and being able to move around. She isn't quite walking yet but she does give it her best try.

 We snapped some cute pictures of her while we were out.

 After dinner, we headed up to the northern part of Columbus for a basketball game. I joined a league and that night was my first game.

 Once we got home it was time to open gifts and have cake. The picture above came from Nona and Papa Nelson. They gave her a cute little ladybug book and warm Pj's.

 We Skyped for a little bit with Grandma and Grandpa Dahlin. They gave Maia a quite book for church, a couple other books and book with pictures of the family. 

 I made Maia a healthy no sugar added, gluten free birthday cake. It didn't really turn out how I would like it to and I don't think Maia really ate much of it, but she sure had fun making a mess out of it. 

Aunt Brittney sent Maia a bunch of clothes and Maia was interested at first...

and not sure of them later.

Reading her book from Uncle Mitch, Aunt Maria and Brenton.

She loves her quite book!

On Saturday we decided to have a little barbecue to celebrate Maia's birthday but it was mostly for us to have a get together with friends and try out our little grill we got for our anniversary.

Maia's 2nd birthday cake. She liked this one a bit better.

Sean invited one of his classmates to come over and they were so sweet and brought an electronic dog for Maia. She loves it! It plays music and she will push the buttons and then dance.

All in all, it is so hard to believe that she is 1 and that a whole year has passed by since I was holding her in my arms that first time in hospital at 3:42 in the morning. I'm looking forward to the many years I have to be this beautiful child's mother.