V is 1 and growing....

Well as Kevin has said in his post we had the holidays and birthdays over the last couple of weeks. V is now with a cold. Imagine that a one year old doesn't know when to sleep and after a couple of weeks of lack of routine, she is sick but even so she is adorable and a very good baby. She is not a baby anymore but she does recognize herself as a baby and a pretty baby at that. Of the 30 words are Baby and Pretty, Bubble and Bath, Dog and Kittah (just like we say it), yeah, and no, plant and button. She is amazing in the way she learns so quickly and looks at me if she doesn't understand. But why Momma? So she is sick but still a very happy child. The cold will pass and she will soon learn to walk not just stand. We got a lot of wonderful toys for Xmas and Bday, including a little table that plays about a hundred different songs and sounds. I have also posted a picture of what I believe was her second word. First she said Dada then she said Dog. She called all animals dogs for about 3 months and has now figured out that fish are different than the dogs and cats are cranky when you get up in their face. So here is your dog until you can really ask. I love you V and am so proud to be your momma. You are the most amazing, smart, beautiful, wonderful being in my little world.

Happy, Happy, Happy

Happy Holidays, everyone. 2008 drew to a close with some relaxing time off - visiting friends, hanging out with the family, snowboarding, and plenty of Wii. Most enjoyable.



Happy New Year! We brought in the new year by staying awake until just after 12. I thought that was quite a feat considering this was our first New Year's Eve with a daughter. But then I got to talking to friends at work, friends around town (with and without children), and found that we night owls may be the exception to the rule anymore. Sounds like a lot of people didn't even make it until midnight. One co-worker was sick, made it to about 9:30. Talked to another who lost the battle to sleepiness around 11:30. Still more friends who decided to ring in the new year either softly, quietly, or asleep. Our only complaint for the evening was "New Year's Rockin' Eve" on TV. What tripe. Music was awful. Ended up watching reruns on some other channel. Better than the bad music of New Year's Eve was the good company of the 3rd and 4th. Many celebrations at once:



Happiest of all: Happy first birthday to our beautiful daughter. She is amazing in so many ways. Sure she does all of the cute baby things: she's starting to stand, she's talking (understanding and at least partially-saying about 30 words now, holy crap) ... (sorry, she's not actually saying "holy crap", I was just thinking "holy crap, it's amazing to hear her talk, it's amazing that we're really starting to communicate with her and she's really starting to communicate with us"), she's walking with the help of adults, she's growing, she's crawling fast and getting into things that she shouldn't. But that's not what I find amazing. I find it amazing that she brings smiles to strangers' faces, she gets comments from passers-by about how cute she is, she looks at us when she doesn't understand something and really tries to figure it out, she has her moments of discontent but usually has so much fun doing everything she does, and she brings so much joy to our family and friends. We're lucky to be your parents, Li'l V. Thanks for a great first year.