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February 13th was Laine's birthday. Her first birthday. We didn't have a party. Morgan and I went out for Valentines day instead. My mom felt bad for her, and made her a little cake. She wouldn't eat it. She touched it I think. Maybe tasted the frosting. She didn't get any presents from us. 

  

Here she is.  See that rubber duck in her hand? It's a dog toy. My mom gave it to her for her birthday. She loves it. Laine has started "walking" (or taking steps on her own) and talks quite a bit. Head, eyes, bye bye, and hi are some of her favorite words.

Gwen's birthday was 5 days after Laine's. February 18th.

 She got this booster seat. She's pretty excited about it. She picked it out herself.

Here she is in all of her birthday glory. Tiara and all. We didn't give her much. We left it up to the grandparents to do that.

Here are her cakes. She decorated them herself because I'm lazy and didn't do anything fancier. The less I have to do the better. The cake isn't even made from scratch. It's a plain old white cake mix. Delicious.

I'm an awesome mom.

Gwen and Laine on Gwen's birthday.

Gwen got the shower cap for her birthday too. She is so lucky.

weeee....or wii

We got the wii a while ago (my father-in-law got it for me for my birthday/mother's day I think). Since then, we have been trying to find games that Gwen would like and would be able to play. There are plenty of games that Morg and I can do, but when it comes to Gwen, she just can't seem to get the whole idea. Any of you have ideas out there? Her birthday is coming up, and I'd like to get her a game (speaking of birthdays, I can't believe Laine is going to be a year old on the 13th...weird).

Morg and I did get the new Super Mario Brothers game last week....in celebration of our tax return. Morg hates me because I make him die all of the time...and I suck at finding secret areas. Oh well. Anyone ever tried Wii active? We have it. It's actually pretty awesome. For the first little while, I was doing it every day, and was actually getting out of breath, and was always sore the next day. I would make Gwen do it with me (I was still worried that the doctor told us she was overweight). That's all.