11 Months Already?

Where has the year gone? I can't believe that in just one short month we'll be celebrating my baby's first birthday. She is on the go these days! Not walking yet but pulling her self up on everything and cruising around on the furniture. Oh, and she's discovered the stairs and is enamored with them! Every time I turn my back she makes a bee line for them. Fortunately, big sister is a good monitor when I'm not watching and is always quick to tell me, "Mom, Tenley's climbing the stairs again!" 

She also has an adorable playful side - initiating games of peek-a-boo on her own with the kitchen hand towels while I'm making dinner. She loves to feed herself all kinds of finger foods and has even started weening herself off the bottle in exchange for a sippy cup. She says dada all the time but has yet to call me mama. I think it's just a fun game for her now. I say mama, she says dada and laughs! One of these days she'll call me mama and melt my heart a little more. 

She gets to start her swim survival class on Monday. The class is definitely more work than fun (for me as well as baby) but the benefits we saw in having Jenica take them made us certain that we wanted Tenley to have the experience as well. 

We are excited that summer is right around the corner and our working hard to get our back yard "party ready". BBQ's, running through the sprinklers, fires in the outdoor fire pit, smores - just a few of the things we are looking forward too. Oh, and a party of course to celebrate little Ms. T's first birthday!

Although there are plenty of moments like this at the Bachelder house these days...



Moments like this make it all worth while! 


I love my little family and am excited for what God has in store for our summer and for the future beyond. We are blessed to be a blessing! Love to you all :)

Comments

Joi said…
I love how both of your girls are so full of personality! Too adorable :)
May 7, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Joi said…
I love how both of your girls are so full of personality! Too cute...
May 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How we got here…

Image
Some of you have noticed that we moved. Some of you know that I bought a house. Some of you know I bought the house with my kids’ dad, my “wasband” of 5 years. Yup, you read that right! Me and the ex-husband purchased a home together. No, we are not getting back together. We have totally separate living spaces and it’s been so wonderful for the kids. Here’s how it started back in December. This is a page from my journal that I was looking back on.  It was my personal writing to myself that I feel led to share, so please be kind. The holidays are definitely a challenging time for me. Broken families, childhood, trauma, anniversaries of loss, along with the cold weather, short days, and little sunlight here in the PNW… It definitely challenges my mental health.  This will be my first winter without antidepressants in quite a while. I think I might have done one of the Mexico winters without pharmaceuticals, but other than that it’s been at least 11 or 12 years since I’ve been anti-depres
Read more

March 20th, 2018

Image
(I wrote this a month ago, but I’m just now finally brave enough to share it here. If you comment, please be kind.) I’ve probably taken 25 flights over the last year or so, and every time up until now I’ve thought that things would be better if the plane I was on just crashed, and I died, and Rob could collect the insurance money and hire a nice nanny to care for the kids and I could just go to heaven and be with Jesus instead of having to go through all the pain and hurt that comes with getting divorced. I know that this is completely selfish of me, and I would have never done anything to intentionally end my own life and leave my kids without a mother, but I honestly felt that death was the only way out of the situation I was in. I was not strong enough to leave my marriage, but it had become quite apparent that I was not strong enough to stay either.  Today I took off on an airplane, on one last solo trip before I become a single mom, and for the first time in over a year, I didn’t
Read more