My one-year old

Julia gulia is a year old, and I only cried a little...We have tons of pictures of her on my camera, and of course I can't find the camera cord to upload them, so the good pictures will have to wait. We had an eventful long birthday weekend and it was so much fun celebrating with her, even if she didn't know what was going on.

Here is our Julia at 1:
She loves trying new food, especially from our plate
She bumped up to size 4 diapers (she's got some chunky legs)
She "talks" a lot now, and she reminds me of a Pokemon when she does-- pikapikapikapika-- an example of her babble
She will wear sunglasses for longer than 5 seconds now
She can hold cups and drink all on her own
She is not quite ready to give up bottles, but she is warming up to sippy cups at bed and regular milk. I don't think it will be too hard since she gave up pacifiers cold turkey about 4-5 months ago
We will enunciate words and she will mouth them to us, but not say them out loud
We are working on signing/saying "more" "please" "thank you"
She learned (or rather we taught her) to stick out her tongue, and I know it's "bad" manners, but it is hilarious
Still no walking, but she will walk holding one of our hands or along the furniture still. She gets so excited that she loses her balance.
She understands and acts on commands/phrases like "where's your toys/books/monkey?" or "give it to doggy/daddy/mommy"
She points to what she wants and mumbles something until we figure out what she wants
Sometimes she lays in bed in the morning playing with her monkey instead of calling for mom to come get her
She has taken to tearing paper, any kind...
When she is tired she likes to squish her face up against ours, we call it squishy face and it cracks her up
She is now facing forward in her car seat and LOVES it

Here are some pics from my phone. I promise I will find a way to get the good pictures on to my computer.

  

Here is the first picture we took on her birthday, bright and early.

After breakfast and some quick errands, we went to 7 Peaks to celebrate. Taking a tired baby wasn't the best idea, but once she got in the water she had a great time. Later on we went and shared a frozen lemonade, walked the mall (grandma C bought her a few outfits) and then we went out to dinner.

Julia's first PB&J sandwich. She loved it.

She is a year old, which means Jackson will be here in 3-ish months. Yikes...