The Adventures of the Little Indian Girl

Hubby and I kept looking at our little one yesterday and kept wondering who took our baby and dropped in this big girl at our home! We can't believe that we just celebrated her first birthday! I can't say that time has flown, as there were many long days and long nights yet an year seems to have gone so quickly!

• D comes to standing with support every where we go nowadays! She doesn't care if our backs are aching holding her up by her hands. She enjoys seeing the world at standing height. 
• She has begun cruising holding on to the edge of the couch and picks things off the coffee table top or the couch.
• She has begun to understand that just because we put the remote, or the phone, or any item of interest for her behind the couch cushion it doesn't disappear from this planet and has now begun to look behind the cushions.
• She is such a happy baby! She has made so many people's days with her laughs and smiles.
• She has created her own signs to ask for certain things from certain people. She goes up to MIL and bounces on her bum and hums a note or two and waits for MIL to sing. With me she comes and it looks like she is about to give me hug but lays on top of my shoulder waiting for me to bounce her upside down using my shoulder as a lever! She knows when dad's wearing pant and shirt he is ready to go out and he needs to take her with him!! 
• Yesterday, for her birthday we all dressed up and went to the temple. As we were getting ready, she went to each one of us excitedly and waited for us to take her out. She got so frustrated that no one would take her out and she got so very cranky!!!
• She began to wave! Well, this morning when I was showing her a video of a fellow friend in our mom-baby group, in which the baby waved at the video camera, D waved back!!
• She is eating so much better these days! Yesterday she had a blast eating Ethiopian food - the injera & their green beans dish. Today she enjoyed Mexican food (not the TexMex but Mexican-Mexican food)! She loves feeding herself and is also enjoying us feeding her too!

For her birthday we did a picnic out at the park on Saturday. We actually had a celebration for hubby and I completing and surviving 1 year of parenthood! So, we had champagne glasses out. Although we served apple cider! It was a lot of fun! Yesterday, we did the temple thing as MIL is here and it will make them happy. We also stopped by the arboretum as it was a beautiful day. We had gone to the very spots where hubby took my photos there during the last cherry blossoms time!