Ok, so usually I update the website about once a month or so... I'm a little behind! Since Lily's first birthday she has taken off walking. She goes everywhere now! She still has her unsteady moments but is actually really great at catching herself before she falls (I think she practicing to be a gymnast :)). 

She is also talking up a storm. Not that we have any idea what she is saying, but she tells us all about her day and how it went on the way home from daycare - SO CUTE!!! Her signing is going really well. She consistently signs "eat," "more," "sleep," and "please." She has learned that if she tries to do something but for some reason can't do it or can't reach it she will look at us and do the sign for please. It just melts your heart and you can't say no!

Her torticollis is ok. We are still going to therapy every other week. She is wearing the collar and it is definitely helping. I think the stronger she gets she might just grow out of it. All I have to say is thank goodness for insurance because we have been doing physical therapy for a year now!

I know for not doing an update in 3 months, I don't have a lot to say. I will put pictures up though - definitely check those out!!! 

Lilia is ONE!!!

 My baby is a year old! We cannot believe how fast this first year has gone. Lily is doing great! She had her one year appointment today and the Dr is thrilled with her progress considering all she has been through in the past 12 months. Josh and I were thinking back about all of the sicknesses she has faught this past year and came up with: RSV, pneumonia, 2 viruses that caused fevers, roseola, 3 ear infections, and random colds that causes her to wheeze. But she is a trooper and just rollin with the punches!

Her torticollis is definitely getting better too. We are still going to physical therapy twice a month but Lily is getting so strong.

 On a more exciting note: LILY HAS BEEN WALKING!!! On her birthday she decided she could walk. She took a couple of steps at daycare and then at home she took 8 steps all by herself! It was great. She still crawls because its faster but when she is standing she will just let go and head in the direction she wants to go. Its really cute!

Her signing is going really well too. She knows signs for sleepy, milk, more and apparently she learned please at daycare so that's pretty awesome! I'm pretty sure she is brilliant!

Lily's favorite words right now are "uh uh" for uh oh and "ow wow" for oh wow and of course dadadada. 

So on her birthday we had a mini celebration with josh and I, my mom and sean and josh's parents. Lily ate her first cupcake - check out the pictures! It was really cute. It almost seemed like she was waiting for us to say "no mouth" but we didn't. She pretty much only ate icing (my kinda girl) but she seemed to like it!

On Sunday we will be having Lily's big family party. We are praying that it will not rain because there are way too many people coming and they will not all fit in our house! We are going to be having some sandwhiches, Silly Goose Soup Chili and of course some dips and home made (by Emily) cupcakes. Its going to be great! I'm sure we will have a ton of pictures to post from that as well. Lily has been doing really well at gatherings lately - she is quite the entertainer (must be from her dad).

I just can't get over that my little (granted 8 pound) baby is now 21 pounds of walking/talking fun... where did the time go?

Our little Lily-bean is growing up so fast! Her first birthday is only three weeks away!!! We are getting prepared for the big day and just can't wait to see what she thinks about cake. 

If you have been keeping up, you know that I have some issues with Lily and "processed" foods so cake and sugar will be completely new to her. She is a great eater though. She eats just about anything you put in front of her. The only thing that we have found that she's not a super fan of is mashed potatoes and gravy...we'll see this might change.

She is crawling like a bug - she's everywhere! Very organized now. She goes and gets things that we point to which is really fun. She has lots of new tricks too. She knows where her head, knees and toes are (we are working on shoulders). She says "uh uh" for uh oh. And she even uses it correctly now. We were out shopping (go figure) the other day and she dropped her binky on the floor (EEW!) and I wasn't paying attention but I heard her saying "uh uh, uh uh" so finally I paid attention and she was pointing to it on the floor. So that is super fun!
We have been working on sign language for quite awhile now and she is picking up on that as well. She has nigh-night down! Its great. She starts to get a little cranky and we will ask her if she's tired and she does the sign - so off to bed she goes. No crying or anything!

Physical therapy is going great! In fact, now that we have been using the TOT collar we have been reduced to twice a month compared to once per week, so that is great! She still gets tilty when she's tired but most of the time she looks really good.

 I'm sure there are so many more things that she can do that I just take for granted because I see them all of the time. But she is a super happy baby! She laughs and giggles ALL of the time! She plays with her toys and just laughs "ha ha." And cracks herself up out of nowhere - its great!  

Well she learned to crawl! Its pretty much the most disorganized crawl you will ever see but she does get where she wants to go! The physical therapist really wanted us to encourage her to crawl to help strengthen her upper back so that's what we have been doing. She also got her collar adjusted and now the "stays" are longer and it seems to be working pretty well. Our physical therapist said that she is getting really close to moving from once a week to every other week, so that is a good sign!

Let's talk about food. So I had been bringing food to daycare and then realized that this is rediculous and that she can eat the food there. So since I have started letting her eat "daycare food" she has had blueberry muffin, bagel, english muffin, pancakes,waffle, hamburger, fries, pizza, chicken nuggest and poptarts! The ladies at daycare know my craziness and asked me if she could have the poptart or if I wanted them to find something else for her. Wow, poor Lily has the crazy momma at daycare! But she loves it. Apparently the only thing she hasnt' eaten is mashed potatoes.

She still babbles to herself all day. Its adorable! She has learned to wave. Usually she waves about 5 minutes after its appropriate because we have already been gone for awhile but she's getting there.

 She apparently also learned that she can stand up in the crib at daycare. She hasn't quite figured it out at home yet, but I'm sure its coming. 

Knock on wood, her ear infection is all cleared up and she is doing well.

We are going to two weddings on Saturday so hopefully we can take some cute family pics while we are all dressed in our Sunday's best.