Wow – just one week away from celebrating Annabelle’s first birthday! It has gone by so fast, but it’s hard to imagine what our days were like without her.

Annabelle is really flourishing at school. She has changed so much since she’s moved to her new class just a few weeks ago. She is really active – she crawls so fast now, pulls up on everything, and walks so quickly when she’s holding someone’s hand or has her walker/car. She is still our little dancer and can find the beat in anything…music, commercials, her toys, beeps from the microwave, etc. Sometimes we don’t even know what gets her going she’ll just start rockin’. She must have music in her head. As she has learned new skills some of our old favorites have fallen to the waste-side. Much to her dad’s dismay she doesn’t do her “oooh’s” as much or her “oh dear” pose. She enjoys her books and babydolls and anything that makes noise that she can dance to (which I’m sure will thill my sister, Becky!).

She has started eating quite the variety of table foods. At her daycare, they cut up the school lunch for her (very small bites) so she gets to try so many new things. She loves muffin day! The most interesting was the chili dog and goulash they gave her last week. I wasn’t so sure about that but they said she loved it. She is not interested in baby food anymore because she likes to be able to feed herself. She’s turning into such a big girl…no longer our little baby.