Happy 1st Annual Bug Day!

Today marks One Year. One year of watching Juneau develop from a quiet, scared 10 month old baby into a running/jumping/giggling almost 2 year old. One year of snuggling with a little girl who adores her mom, dad and baby sister. One year of being amazed at this beautiful, smart, funny little girl that we are lucky enough to call our daughter. One year of loving her more than we ever thought humanly possible.
We had a perfect family day today. The girls have been waking up at 6:30 now that we live in Colorado (their Hawaii wake-up time was 5:30, so we have gotten 1 extra hour of sleep out of the time change!)

They spent a while playing their new favorite activity (courtesy of Aunt Bets)...Stickers! Every day they ask "Play Stickers?" And then they proceed to stick stickers all over their hands, arms, faces, necks, and cheeks. I found one stuck on Nova's butt the other day when i was changing her diaper.

After stickers we headed outside to find the new toy motorcycles Cris got for the girls. The new motorcycles are a direct result of a purchase i made last week, when i bought them these old beat up tricycles at the flea market. The girls are just too small for the tricycles, but they LOVE those things. The second their eyes open in the morning they start asking to ride those bikes (well, first juneau asks to watch "shows" and when we say no, then she asks for the bikes). There have been many tears shed this week from falling off those tricycles, so when we found these little motorcycles that are actually designed for one year olds we decided to go ahead and buy them and hide the trikes until next summer.

After motorcycles, we had a "Bug Hunt". I found a bunch of little toy bugs at the dollar store, and hid them around the patio. The girls had a blast collecting the bugs. Juneau wasn't too sure about it at first. She stared at this plastic fly for quite some time before she decided it was a toy and then the hunt was on.

Nova was in on the action and collected quite a few bugs herself.

I know it looks like Juneau is eating the bug in this picture, but she is actually kissing it. She kissed every single bug as she took them out of the cup to look at them.

After the bug hunt we ate lunch, and then dessert was of course Dirt Pudding.

There's nothing like chocolate pudding, cool whip, and oreos in a cup to make 2 little girls ridiculously happy.

Then more motorcycle time.

After lunch we headed over to the "spray ground" which is a very nice area in the nearby community park with tons of water fountains and little sprayers. The girls participated, but weren't overly thrilled with it. It was very crowded with several day care and summer camp kids playing, and they were much bigger than the girls, so i think it was just a little overwhelming. Still fun, but they may need a few more visits before they feel comfortable.

Finally we headed over to "The Little Gym" for a trial class. There were a ton of little gymnastics type activities, and the girls had a blast playing on the equipment and running around with the other kids.

When we got home we hooked up the DVD player and watched Juneau's adoption video. Juneau LOVED watching the video on our new TV. She had a running commentary of the whole thing. Most of the time she thought the pictures of her as a baby were pictures of Nova. Any time she sees a baby or baby picture she says "sis-sis?" it's funny that she thinks of Nova as a little baby even though they are so close in age. She definately identifies herself as the Big Girl of the family. Anyway, it was awesome to hold and snuggle Juneau while we watched the story of the events one year ago that brought her into our family.

It's been an awesome first year together, Juneau. We love you, little Bug.