Day 365! Happy Birthday to me!

My first birthday party was today! Everyone was there including my grandparents and friends and neighbors. We had fruit, sandwiches, drinks, and birthday cake. I got a lot of new toys including a fire truck and another walker. I got a book and a wooden puzzle. I got some pretty new outfits including a party dress. It was exhausting!

 

Today was a very busy one. We started off with the ritual jog/run to Starbucks followed by our semi-monthly big shopping visit to Wal-Mart. We got home by noon then Dad mowed the lawn. By 2 pm we were off to John's tennis match which was rained out by 3 pm. We all went to the Harris Y so I could try out my new flotation swim suit.

The suit was pretty nice, but I'm still a little too small for it. (I think I'm weighing in at around 22 el-bees these days and the suit is for 20 to 35 lb babies.)

 

We finished up around 4 pm and headed home for a short nap. Then I got up around 5 for a few more hours of craziness. Finally, I crashed out for good around 7:45 pm. Mom and Dad seem really tired today for some reason.

Day 358

 

 

I'm going to take over for Daddy since he's not doing a very good job of keeping this up-to-date.

We went on a short hike at Crowder's Mountain today. Daddy and Mommy took turns carrying me around in my new backpack carrier. Dad said it is a Kelty Tour model, whatever that means. We got it at Jesse Brown's Outdoors on Friday and they couldn't wait to throw me in it and get out of town.

16 more days til your first birthday!

What have you been up to lately? Let's see.

You can go from the floor to a standing position with almost no effort. You can stand up for 10 seconds or so, teetering back and forth. Today you took a sip of my smoothie while standing up.

You're saying "DaDa" and "MaMa" upon request. Although I'm not sure you're identifying us with those terms. You can also say "Baby" but you say it "Day-dee."

Here is a little video from this morning: