Corinna Hoffman Family Photo Shoot

Here's Alexsa's OFFICIAL Chair Picture for her first birthday:

We had a great time getting our pictures taken last week and Cori was great enough to have them ready for today, Alexsa's first birthday party!  Check out the rest of the sweet pictures here:
http://corinnahoffman.blogspot.com/

2011-02-09 Pic of the Day!/ ALEXSA IS ONE!

What a strange feeling it is when your only child turns one. Joy and sadness at the same time?  I’m so excited to go through the next stage in her life, but why must it go by so fast? I had to pick her up an extra time last night before I put her down for one last hug as my little Baby Girl. When I see her again she’ll be ONE.  Now we can measure her age by YEARs.  This is why parents still say “My child is 13 months” or “26 months” or whatever.  It’s to hold on to that last glimpse of babyhood that we enjoy so much.

Some of her accomplishments now that she’s one:
·         She can sign “milk”, “bath”, “all-done”, “more”, “change”, and “shoes”.  Change and Bath are her favorites.  We’ve now had to start saying B-A-T-H when we mention it because she’ll start signing away and say “Uh?” like “Can I have one now?”
·         She is SUCH a walker.  She barely will crawl at all anymore, except when she’s playing.
·         She no longer eats baby food.   She started spitting it out and squishing it through her pursed lips.  At first we thought it was a taste thing, but I think she just  likes the way it feels through her lips.
·         She can take off her shirt over her head if I get her arms free.
·         She can get off the couch without tumbling off. She knows HOW to climb up, but isn’t quite big enough.
·         She still only has 2 teeth!
·         She gives the best hugs.
·         She can blow you kisses.
·         She plays “How big is Alexsa?” SOO BIG!
·         If you sing Minnie Ripperton’s Lovin’ You at the “La la la la la… lalalalala… Do do do do do do do” part, she’ll finish with the high-pitched  “AAAHHHHHH!!” at the end. Its adorable and makes us laugh every time.

Happy 1st Birthday, Alexsa Jade. 

How old is Alexsa? "One!"

2011-02-08 Pic of the Day!

Her feet are my favorite part of this picture. :)

PS I can't believe she's going to be ONE tomorrow!!!!

2011-02-04 Pic of the Day!

Look what I have!

2010-01-31 Pic of the Day!

Alexsa REALLY enjoyed her veggie soup tonight. :)

2010-01-29 Pic of the Day!

Alexsa loves the camera. Its almost impossible to get a shot of her anymore, they seem to usually turn out like this:

Gotta love it. :)

2010-01-27 Pic of the Day!

I can officially say that Alexsa is a walker!  She walks all over the place like a little drunken sailor. Its adorable!  So tonight before her bath I thought, How cute she would be walking around all nudy booty?
(like a Johnson and Johnson commercial.) Well as soon as I put her on the carpet she started peeing! It was just a little blip, so I didn't think much of it.  I continued my quest to get a picture of her walking in the buff. Then 20 seconds later she just started GOING.  On my Mom's carpet. I couldn't help but start laughing. I had the water running for the bath, a naked baby walking around willy-nilly, and now I have pee on the carpet and me laughing harder and harder trying to figure out how to simultaneously clean up the pee, take a picture of my adorable baby nekkid, and prevent her from running into the bathroom unsupervised while I sop up her mishap.  This is what i ended up with:

Yep.

I think I got a picture of her stepping in it.

2010-01-22 Pic of the Day!

Alexsa had her first PB & J today. :)

2010-01-19 Pic of the Day!

Check out those curls! :)

2011-01-15

The weather was so beautiful today!  We walking over to the YMCA to check out their playground.  It kind of sucked, especially for such youngin's as Alexsa, but at least they had a swing :)

She loves the swing!

Then later that day, Alexsa got her first shiner.  I was doing dishes and she was in the living room w/ Barry.  I heard a bang and then a cry.  Poor thing!

2011-01-13 Pic of the Day!

Mima's new favorite game to play w/ Alexsa:

2011-01-12 Pic of the Day!

I remembered to take a picture today! YAY!

2011-1-10 Pic of the Day!

Alexsa and Hiro were playing today. :)

He's so tolerant. :)

20101-01-09 Pic of the Day/11 Months!

Can you believe she's 11 months old?? I'm just amazed at how fast she's growing up. I really shouldn't be; everyone said it goes by fast.
Just in the last month you've:

• Really gotten better at your sign language.  Your "All-Done" is very good - you actually rotate your wrists now instead of just flailing your arms.  You also do "more" by banging your fists and do "change" and "milk".
• You can walk!  On Dec 23rd, at Allison and Dave's Christmas Cookie Party, you walked from me to Ashley, taking at least 2 independent steps!
• You've become very loving and sometimes clingy to me.  You are a mama's girl. :)

11 months old!

2011-01-07 Pic of the Day!

:)

2010-12-27 Pic of the Day!

Guess she's getting too big for her activity table; she's finding a new way to play with it!



"Ta-da!"



2010-12-22 thru 12-26 Pics of the Day!

You would think due to it being Christmas that I would have a bazillion photos... but I don't.  In fact, I only took 3, all weekend.  So here they are:

Alexsa belting it out on her new piano/karaoke toy from James' clan! (12/26)



The Swedlows with Barry's BFF Shawn and his fiance, Angela

mmm... SPOON!



2010-12-23 Pic of the Day!

Aunt Christy gave Alexsa this outfit for Christmas!  The peacoat is just adorable!!!

2010-12-22 Pic of the Day!

This was Alexsa's Christmas present from Mima and Papa :)  She loves making it whiny and dances when it plays "Oh Susanna"  :)

2010-12-21 Pic of the Day!

Alexsa got curious and fell into the tree... :)

(This is from Christy's camera from Sunday.  Didn't get any pictures today since we were at my parent's house for the first Tuesday night dinner after them being back in town.  They had been living up north with my grandpa until he passed.)