Allison turns ONE!

Allison's favorite part of her birthday was definitely the cake! She had her own little heart-shaped cake with cream frosting and pink sugar. She tenatively ate some frosting first, but then once she realized there was cake under there she dug in with both hands and pulled up fistfuls. She actually wasn't too messy with it. After the cake she had a lot to say; I think the sugar loosened her lips. Here are some of the words she can say, even though some of them are hard to distinguish:

• mama
• dada
• grandma
• grandpa
• binky boo
• peek a boo
• night night
• uh-oh
• moo
• duck
• quack
• baa
• oink
• kitty
• meow

Jumping on the bed

On Thanksgiving Julia and my cousin Emily disappeared upstairs and spent some time bouncing on the bed. Julia's Uncle Steve captured this picture mid bounce.

She can see!

Allison got her glasses just before Thanksgiving. When I first tried to put them on, they accidentally snapped on her face and she started bawling. I tried them on again and as soon as she looked through them she immediately stopped crying and started to laugh. She sat on my lap for a while and just looked around the room. She doesn't try to take them off and really seems to enjoy having them on. This was taken about a half hour after she first tried them on and you can see how happy she is.