First Birthday!

Juliette AKA Peach has turned One Year Old today! Hurray!

During this year she’s gone from being The Tube (input milk at one end, collect poop and pee at the other) to developing into a little being with a distinct personality of her own. We don’t always like the personality she displays, but it’s been an amazing experience to watch her change.

Her latest exploits include:

• standing freely on her own, without having to hold on to anything
• picking things up while standing freely, bending over or doing 1/2 squats to grab items
• playing the little brat – her latest trick is to pick up a piece of food and offer it to us, then as we lean forward she pulls it back and puts it in her own mouth! Smiling mischievously the whole time. (Where did she learn that?)
• wanting to each what we eat – even after finishing off a big meal of her own, she has plenty of room to sample what’s on our plate. Everything from pieces of pork chop, rice, beans, bread, pizza, cakes, cookies, lettuce, cucumber and more. So far there is very little she does not like.
• piling up her toy blocks and putting the big lego pieces into stacks up to 3 high
• putting some of her shape blocks into the correct holes. So far she correctly does round and square, with triangles being successful about 10% of the time.

There’s a lot more things that I’m missing, but you get the picture. Besides, any more and I’ll turn into a gushing Dad. And we can’t have that.

Happy Birthday Juliette! I look forward to many many more.