And she walks!

I haven't had much time to update everyone on the little piggy lately but here's a quick run down...

After her first birthday, she was sick for two weeks :( so sad. But after that, she's been doing really well.

• She now walks everywhere, no more crawling.


• She talks all the time and says words like "hot", "cat", "shoes", "keys", "bird", "ball" and we think she says "monkey".


• She copies everything you do... like yesterday, the neighbors daughter was telling the dog across the street to shut up by saying "No Dog!" and shaking her pointer finger at the dog. Well, this morning the little piggy started shaking her finger and saying "No" but sounds like "Noy".


• She knows that all her cars to ride on are in the garage and likes to ride on the back of my bike every so often in her seat. She hates the helmet so after about 10 minutes of riding, she begins screaming at the helmet. It's entertaining, especially when the people you are riding past think you're torturing your child and give you a dirty look.


• She sits facing forward in her car seat now. Looking everywhere and talking to the cars that ride by.


• She talks to people on the phone by holding it up to her ear and saying "hi". Lots of times she will even take a shoe, toy block or a fork to her ear and say "hi". Very entertaining. Also, when we're in the car and on the phone, she'll talk to you through the bluetooth and will think that you're there with us in the car.


• She waves bye bye anytime I pick her up and walk somewhere because she thinks we're going somewhere.


• She blows kisses at you and will also slobber on you if you let her give you a kiss.


• She freaks out anytime I pick up my bag (even if it's to put it somewhere else) because she thinks I'm leaving.


• She picks up sticky acorns (because her Nonna taught her to do it) and puts them in the back of her little car. The best part is that they're sometimes so sticky that she can't get them out of her hand, so she'll shake her hand and scream.


• She picks flowers for everyone and tries to eat them... same with rocks.


• She can recognize the bear and the elephant in her animal book by giving them kisses when we ask her to kiss the elephant/bear. She'll also go get her big fluffy lamb if we tell her to "go get the baaaaa".


• She'll test your patience by holding her food out over the edge of her highchair just to see if you'll yell at her. Then she'll laugh and put it in her mouth. Yeah.. very funny.

Well, that's all for now. Had to make sure I documented everything since I ran out of video tape in my camera. I really need one of those DVD video cameras! If anyone knows of a good free program to rip tapes to DVD, please let me know. I'm using one that came with my computer but it takes forever!

Talk to you all soon...

-S