How Time Flies

I was looking through pictures today....Can you believe in 1 year's time this blue eyed chubby bun...


January 2010

 Has grown into this sassy little girl?

December 2010

Love you Lara B... You are the coolest 18 month old I know...and having worked in the 18 month old room at Small Wonders I have seen my fair share of 18 month olds...even some pretty cool ones. *sniff sniff* Now off to the deep freezer with you so you stop growing....

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Williamswereavinababyeetzaboy Family

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and that you and yours are as blessed in the New Year as we were in 2010.

We have had a super busy year with a wedding, first birthday, new house, new puppy...etc...and from the looks of things have no plans of slowing down in 2011. Having an 18 month old by itself keeps a person running non stop. We are very excited for all of the new adventures 2011 has in store for us. Lara continues to amaze us on a regular basis with her awesomeness (I am her mother and allowed to think she is the greatest child ever born). She knows 40 different signs and says : Mom, Daddy, Water, Cheese, Sawyer, Papa, Gamma, Uh oh, and M&Ms and is working on tons of new words. She LOVES to dance and run around in the nude...and is dabbling in the world of using the big girl potty.

Baby BROTHER Williams is also growing like a weed and practicing his ninja skills on my insides. We are 24 weeks along as I write this. We are over the moon to be adding a boy to the clan (poor Steven is drowning in estrogen). He is currently measuring on the larger side and after his sister weighed in at almost 9 lbs a week early, we will most likely be looking at an arrival date of early April rather than closer to the 19th. Only time will tell.

We will keep you posted. See you in 2011!

Love,
The Williams Family
Steven, Kari, Lara, Baby Boy, & Sawyer

Lara's view on boys....

Steven has been training Lara, in true daddy fashion, to know she should not be interested in dating boys until she is 30.

For those of you who haven't heard....

The Williams family has a bun in the oven....we are adding another pumpkin to our patch (seasonal...cute right?)....however you would like to say it...Along with the blooming flowers (or blizzards...you never know here) of spring 2011 will come Baby W #2.

I am 14 weeks and 3 days TODAY (thanks Babycenter) so the 1st trimester is behind me. We are due April 19th. We saw Dr. Hutchens last week and got to hear a strong 160 bpm heart beat which was incredible. I have been feeling....well sleepy and nauseous, but day by day that has been getting much better.

We are beyond excited and feel incredibly blessed that God has entrusted us with yet another beautiful gift. Lara knows where "her baby" is and loves to "give her baby a kiss". My greatest memories of my childhood involve my brother and I am very excited for L to be blessed with joys and, lets be honest, trials of siblinghood. However if she has a little brother/sister as great as my crazy brother...she will be a lucky girl and BW2 is incredibly lucky to have such a wonderful big sister.

  We have our next appointment and ultrasound Dec. 1st at 21 weeks to make sure BW2 is healthy and all is well so please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers in that department.

Love you all.

Williams Out.

Fruit Loop

Found this while going through files on the computer. Just a fun shoot with Kayla K at about 8 months.

Oldie McOld Pants

(You will want to scroll to the bottom of the page and pause the music before you watch the videos.)

13 months old....she is walking all over the place...flexing her sass muscle....and has an uncanny ability to find exactly the thing she shouldn't be doing or thing she shouldn't be playing with...and do/play with it. She is no longer my chubby monkey infant who is perfectly happy snuggling up on my chest and rocking. It makes me tear up a little when I think about it too much.

But on the flip side, she wakes up in the morning even cooler than she was the day before. The rate at which she learns continues to blow my mind. She has started doing things because she thinks she's funny...loves books, pushing her dolly in a stroller, "helping" me in the kitchen....So its really a decent trade off.

She is also very polite....I forgot to ask her to sign it in the video below, but she can now sign "please"....and signs it when she wants something. She also knows that is the appropriate sign when I ask "How do you ask nicely?" Brilliant I tell you....brilliant.

And now, without further adoo.... are some vids of the Wolliams house celeb herself.

Here she is doing a little walking....she's still trying to find her balance....so hopefully it will be a little while yet before she gets to runnin'.


And signing....we LOVE Baby Signing Time at our house....Banana, Cracker, and Baby are new ones...so they are still a little goofy. But she does the same motion everytime we go over them...so its a step in the right direction.

The Cake

I haven't posted any photos from Larapalooza....(a.k.a. her 1st Bday). I know...I'm a borderline terrible mother.
So here you go. I am starting with the cake...mostly because it is a sentimental cake (if for no one else, for me). You see, when I turned one many many years ago, there was this cake....a 3D panda bear cake. It was a little bit of a family tradition (made by my auntie Lynette). Well I decided Lara (and the future Wolliams babies) should have this very same cake for her first birthday. Only one problem....I had really never seriously emersed myself in a legitimate cake making project. Oh well....when has that ever stopped me? So I hit up Hobby Lobby and what do you know...good ol Wilton still makes the exact same cake pan as the one used in 1987 at Karipalooza. I snatched it up and this little guy was born. Lara destroyed him...but it was absolutely worth the time and energy. I love sentimental traditions and while I know she doesn't appreciate them now, if she is anything like me, I know she will in the future.

And here is our baby girl..... not to sure about her cake being on fire...and the lovely mess she made killing my artistic creation.

She still had black frosting in her ears the next day at her 1year doctor's appointment....despite tremendous scrubbing. Sign of the perfect 1st birthday party....