Lily is one year old. I can't believe it. It feels like she's been around forever and just arrived all at the same time. I feel like a whole new person and still the same person. I still don't feel like a 'mom'. I don't really know how to describe it. When I think of moms, I think of patience and understanding and unconditional love. I still feel like I come up short. But whatever. This has been an amazing year and I'm excited to see what's still coming.
Lily is about 20 pounds and 30 inches tall. She crawls all over everything, climbs up on everything, shuffles along the furniture and is taking steps all on her own. She made it all the way from the living room through the dining room this afternoon. It's not quite consistent enough to truly call it 'walking' but we're close. She is super silly and loves to laugh. She doesn't have any single favorite toy buy loves anything you can pick up and shake. Or hit something with. She's still the cutest baby on the planet but is starting to look more and more like a little kid every day.
Joe took this video today. I like how she doesn't give up and just keeps coming.
We had a small gathering at the Morton Arboretum on her actual birthday. I made a cake, of course. Compared to the cakes I work on now it looks like it was made by a monkey. So it turns out that I don't have any pictures from her birthday celebration on my phone. I'll have to get them from my mom's camera tomorrow and upload them later. All I have is this one picture I shared on facebook earlier.
And here are some random photos from a trip to the Field Museum a couple of weeks ago. In the Crowne Family Play Lab they have all these little costumes you can dress up in. Lily picked the skunk. She also loved the music room where they have all these different instruments from around the world that you can play. The elephant bells were her favorite.
I feel like I should write something profound and amazing that Lily can read one day when she's older. I don't really know what else to say other than I love you and I'm so glad you're a part of my life. Happy birthday Lily Sofia!
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