My Monkey is One Year Old!!!

I can't believe my baby girl is a year old already. It seems like just yesterday when I was rushing into the mancave with the stick that had two pink lines across it to tell Pete the amazing news.  It really just goes by so fast.  She is changing and learning more every day.  She is mastering walking and loves it!  She also loves to impersonate things.  She can do the cat, dog, whale, sheep, monkey, and she just learned duck on her birthday when we went to the park to feed the ducks.  She is really good at that one.  Sounds exactly like them. 

She also just learned what we call her jazz music sound.  She basically sounds like a trumpet, very Miles Davis like.  =) She also impersonates sounds she hears in songs or when she hears sirens go by.  She loves her sounds, not so much on the words yet, though.  She has "dada" down like nobody's business, and she is great with "mama" when she decides she wants to say it for me, which definitely isn't as often as I would like.  I was hoping she would be a talker like I was, but so far, not so much. 

She definitely is a whiner though.  For such an adorable little munchkin, man can she make some awful sounds.  She is rather demanding, and since she can't yet use her words to voice her needs, it is comes out as an awful whine.  Sometimes her whole body shakes she is so frustrated.  I guess she can't be all perfect, as much as I might think she is.

We took some shots on her birthday for her 12 month.  We had some good times with the birthday balloons and ribbon. This will be the last of the regular monthly photos I will be taking, but definitely not the last of the photos!!!  She is too cute not to capture all the time. 

Love that face!!!

23 Weeks

This week, in addition to being my 23rd week pregnant, it is also my 1664th week since birth. Happy birthday to me! That is a lot of weeks. As I take these pictures I feel like my belly looks bigger than it does, however this could be because I usually see myself from the front, and not the side. Perhaps I should start putting a full frontal picture up, of course, for everyone's benefit I would be dressed, so not to worry.

My mom is in town this week, which has been fun. I also got a call from Baby Town, and our crib is in and ready to be picked up!! Yay! So as soon as we get the truck back from the shop we are going to head down there and get it. That way we can get started on putting the babies room together. Mom and I got some closet organizers to put in there, because one bar with a shelf is such a waist of space. It will be so much nicer with multiple bars, shelves and some drawers to use. I'm sure there will be lots of pictures to come of the nursery transformation.