First Birthday - January 5

Ella turned 1 this past Monday, January 5, at 2:56 pm. It is just amazing that she is now one year old and that a whole year has gone by she was born.

Here she is waking up the morning of her birthday




That night we gave her first cup of whole milk, and she is now completely off bottles and drinking just from cups (and any time she can get us to give her a drink out of a water bottle, that is really her favorite).

Cheers!


First cup of milk


Yummm



With Daddy



And we gave her a little piece of birthday cake...which of course she thoroughly enjoyed!


So, my little babydoll is now a toddler, I can barely believe it! In some ways though I really feel like she is a little girl instead of a baby but then at other times I still think she's all baby.

Now she cruising a little bit but she isn't that motivated on her own, so her best walking practice comes when we hold her hands and she'll take steps toward us and then if I walk backwards while I have her hands she'll take steps and walk toward me. She climbs up on everything and likes to do lots of exploring. The dogs and Nomar give her endless amount of fun and she gets in silly moods where she just giggles and giggles. She thinks that if her eyes are hidden, so is she, so one of her favorite games is covering her eyes with a piece of clothes or blanket and then 'reappearing' and she loves doing that. She likes to clap and of course loves dancing, and now 'blows kisses' (aka hits her mouth with her hand over and over) when it's time to say goodbye. What a year it has been, I am one lucky mommy!