Just this past Thursday was my babies 1st Birthday!~ She started to take some very tentative steps on the Tuesday before and was walking. Now she is not the best walker but she is getting better, even though the steps are still tentative.
She has started a new thing where she will lay down on her stomach to play. This morning she lay on her stomach to play in the tub and later in the afternoon when I gave her a snack she held one grape in each hand and lay on the floor on her stomach to eat them.
She talks a lot more and says Neeeeck for her Uncle Nick, and she will talk your ear off, but only in LynLeese. I swear that she says things like "that" or "this one" and many other small phrases, but they are more like a cockatiel talking so you hear them but they are not enunciated or even words, just word-like and mumbly.
For her first birthday she mainly received clothes, because she needs them and she doesn't need toys anyway. But she does not have any family here except her Father's parents and one of his brothers, so the party was small and intimate. We did barbecue burgers with bbq sauce and provolone cheese and we had tater tots, chips and salsa, and all the beverages you can drink (sodas only)!
She very lightly touched her cake and then slowly dug into it, but mainly ate the frosting. She tried to share, but once it was mixed together it did not look so appealing. When it came time to open her presents, she would take them and toss them over her shoulder onto the floor. She did this several times before being assisted in opening them. Once she opened them the clothes would then take another turn being tossed onto the floor. When she came to the shoes she decided that she would peek into the package and see what they were. She has a slight shoe fettish, one in which her father attributes to mommy's genes! She held the shoes and showed them to her grandmother who was taking pics.
On her birthday we (Ricky & Autum aka Daddy & Mommy) gave her our big present which was a Leap Frog Ride on Toy Train with all of the sounds that can drive an already sane person to drink. Lucky for us I am not sane enough to know the difference. She adores the train and will squeal with delight when she is playing with it, also squealing when it won't go any further due to the couch being in the way or also when she can't get on it and in many other situations. I may have mentioned that she has begun to squeal when she is annoyed, happy, etc.
All in all it was a good birthday for her. We did not overwhelm her with presents nor did we get her so many toys that she did not know which one to play with. Blame this on watching my sisters raise their children or you could just say that it is a blessing in disguise to be broke so that we had no options. Either way I am satisfied that her birthday was a good one.
Take care and Smile :)
Autum
