Week Fifty One

Fifty one weeks! That means that one week from today, Miss Alexandra will celebrate her 1st birthday! How crazy to think that an entire year has gone by and this time last year we were eagerly awaiting her arrival, wondering what she would look like, and planning her first days at home. Now we have watched her grow into an adorable little girl, full of love and personality. She has changed our whole lives for the better.

Enough sappiness (as Dave would say) and time to get to this weeks notes. Alexandra is becoming more proficient with walking and I finally caught her on camera. She takes 4-5 steps before falling. As long as she goes slowly she is fine, but once she gets excited and tries to walk faster, she falls.

Now that she is standing and walking, she is trying to get at things that were onceout of her reach. Last Sunday, she decided it would be fun to take the DVDs out of the bookcase in our media room. She also goes after magazine piles, loves purses and wants the trash can. I can tell that we are going to get quite a workout chasing after her real soon!

Swim lessons continue. We are going twice a week (Tuesday and Saturday). She already was comfortablein the water, just not interested in doing what the instructors wanted her to do. She was more interested in clinging to mommy. On Saturday, she was much better and even let the instructor hold her for a few seconds. Of course her eyes were always on mommy. Daddy goes along to the lessons because four hands are so much easier when trying to get in and out of the pool, change the girl out of her wet suit and plus she has someone to look at when going across the pool. In a few more times, we will switch places and Dave will get in the water with her. I can't wait until it is warmer in our pool to take her swimming each day!

This weekend, Grandma Sara came over for a visit. She spent much of the day watching Alexandra while mommy caught up on grading (especially important since grades are due Monday) and daddy did some cleaning. While I was upstairs on my computer, I could hear lots of laughter and talking from the little girl. She loves to talk! This is of course no surprise considering her parents are both Toastmasters!

Here are some pictures taken this week. Next week will be Miss Alexandra's 1 year update!!!