One!

Ok I better do Anna's one year old update before she gets any older. So she's actually getting pretty close to 14 months now.



She is a huge talker. She got started with mama around 9 months, quickly adding dada and dayday. Dog and cat (dah/daa) came next. Recently she has just been exploding with words... ball, more, milk, juice, bath, bubble, wow, flower, Dottie, night-night, book & down are just some of the words that she regularly uses. And although they don't sound near perfect they are consistent enough that we know what she's saying most of the time. I almost forgot NO! For a couple of weeks it was her very favorite word and we heard it all the time. She has stopped saying it so frequently lately with the addition of so many new words. Uh oh is also a favorite - how does every baby learn the "game" of tossing a sippy cup from a booster seat and calling out "UH OH?!?"



Little princess started walking the day before she turned one. She just took a couple baby steps at a time for about a month. Just recently she decided it was time to walk! She went from taking a few steps and falling down to being able to walk from room to room practically overnight. She prefers walking to crawling now and only falls down when she gets going too fast. The only thing she likes better than walking is climbing! Little girl is part monkey! She spends too much of her time trying to climb on the kids' table in the living room. Even a pretty big fall from it has not deterred her. I had to put a tent over her bed for fear that she might try to climb out the crib. She is fearless at the playground, going up steps and down slides without caring where I am.

To my joy she has recently started to enjoy listening to books. Her favorite books are I Love Cats and Goodnight My Duckling. We read Goodnight My Duckling nine times before nap today! How can I resist her though? She gets a book, says "Boooo, booooo," walks over to me, turns around and backs up into my lap. It is the sweetest thing.