Current mood:

amused

Birthday party

Party games
Thanks to everyone who came over to help me celebrate my first birthday yesterday! There were so many people to play with that I hardly saw mommy and daddy all afternoon. I had a great time and hope everyone else did too. There's lots of pictures up in the January folder of my photo album (and there are also a couple of new videos on my video page).

As you can see, we had lots of fun playing party games and I had a little help blowing out the candle on my birthday cupcake. Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful toys, clothes and gifts and for all the good wishes and hopes for the future.

In other developments, my verbal skills are advancing almost as quickly as my written ones!  Whenever I eat food, now, I say "Num num!" repeatedly, and I don't use that phrase any other times.  I say "da da da" and "ma ma ma" pretty much indiscriminately but the other day, when mommy left for a while and then came back into the room, I crawled right over to her and said, "Ma ma!  Ma ma!"  So she's considering that to be my first word. 

I'm still bigger than average - although I'm just 12 months, I wear a size 18 in clothes.  I eat all kinds of food - mommy and daddy just give me some of whatever's on their plate now. 

Sometimes when daddy asks me nicely, "Where's my nose?" I show him.  (You'd think a grown-up would know by now, sheesh!)  My all-time favourite thing to do right now is climb up stairs - I could do that forever!  And I'm just starting to get the hang of certain toys, like putting a ball in a hole and watching it fall down the tracks (there's also a video on my video page of me doing that).  I also love it when mommy and daddy push me around the ice rink in my stroller when they go skating after the Friday Night Supper at our park.  While they push me, I lean forward in the stroller and try to pump with my body to make the stroller go faster and faster!  My favourite song is "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)" although those rocking Sesame Street songs on my toy guitar are a close second ... whenever I hear exciting music like that, I start rocking myself from side to side along with the rhythm.

I can't wait to see what adventures await me in my second year!