What a Difference a Year Makes

And just to show how much has changed in the last year:

Here I am just minutes after being born

August 7, 2009

and

This is me 3 days before turning 1

August 4, 2010

I sure am a big girl now!

I'm a Big Girl Now!

Hi everybody! So it finally happened...I finally turned 1!!! 

None of us can believe it, but it's true! On August 7, I turned the

big 1! Mommy and Daddy threw an amazing duckie themed birthday

party for me with all the people who loved me. I got lots of fun gifts and

got to play with all of my friends. I even got to eat (and wear!) cake

for the very first time! I had such a great time and am really glad 

we had such a beautiful day for the party. 

Before I turned 1, Mommy, Daddy, and I were really busy!

On the day before my birthday, we all went to the Baltimore Zoo.

We had such a great time and I even got to pet a giraffe named

Angel! It was a pretty hot day, but I just loved looking at all the different

animals, that I called "dog".

During the week, Mommy and I kept busy by visiting with some

friends. We went to North East, Westminster, Shrewsbury, and York on

our travels.  Aunt Holly, Zachary, and Olivia invited us to their pool

one day and we had a super fun time! I also got to meet Audrey,

who is just a little baby and Landon and Maddie who are older

than me.

Two of my cousins had birthdays really close to mine! We went to 

Zachary's third birthday first. He had a Cars themed party and a

bounce house, that I loved! Then we got to celebrate Cameron's

third birthday with a trip to Chuck E. Cheese!

We also asked Aunt Holly to take some family pictures and some

special "one year" pictures of me. She did an amazing job and we

can't wait to hang them all over our house! Here are some sneak peeks:

I have also been perfecting my walking and am expertly cruising around

the house and walking up and down the sidewalk in front of

our house daily. I don't need to put my hands up for balance nearly

as much as before and am feeling more and more confident everyday!

I am also expanding my vocabulary and am saying lots of words. 

Mommy and Daddy can't believe everything I can say. I say words

like, "dog", "belly", "bye-bye", "block" and I'm getting really close to saying

"bottle" instead of "ba-ba". I am also starting to identify Daddy just

by hearing the door open in the evenings!

Finally, I finished up my Mommy and Me swim classes! An extra

special treat was the day that Daddy got to swim with me! I am still

not a huge fan of going underwater, but I'm MUCH better than

when I first started.

If you have been a devoted reader of my blog, you can see that I have 

had an amazing first year! I just can't wait to see what fun I can get

into this year too!