Dancing and Scruffy-loving

Sorry it's been awhile since the last update! Brenna had her 12 month checkup a couple of weeks ago and weighed in at 22.75 lbs and was 31 inches long. She is right on track developmentally - except that she doesn't really say mama or dada when actually referring to us, but she does know who we are when we ask (she points). But, we know the talking will come and if she's anything like mom or dad, we won't get her to stop! She has been making us laugh lately with her dancing. Anytime music comes on, she smiles and starts dancing. She does a sort of march-like dance one leg up, then the other and she'll even turn around sometimes. It is very cute! She has also been loving on Scruffy A LOT lately - more than he'd like! We'll find her following him around and then she'll lay her head down on him (her way of giving him a hug). He'll quickly move away, but then come back when she gets his toy to play tug of war with him. He has done so well with her (we knew he would) and it is very cute to watch her initiate play with him. She is also drinking very well from her sippy cup (as you can see) and eating lots of foods on her own. Pretty much anything you put in front of her is worth a shot for her to try and she has been pretty successful with most things.

I will try to post some pictures soon - for some reason, I'm having technical difficulties!

Happy Birthday Brenna!

One year already!! Although Brenna turned one on Wednesday, we celebrated with family and friends on Saturday and had a blast. Brenna dug into her own cake that mommy made the day before and after a few minutes had it everywhere (she required a bath right afterward) but looked very cute! We had a kiddie pool party with a whale pool, another baby pool with a palm tree, a sprinkler and a slip n slide. Lots of people came to celebrate the party and watch all the kids play in the water. There were lots of Brenna's little friends (including some blogging buddies Jason and Jacy) and everyone had a great time! Brenna was very fortunate to have so many people come to show their love for Brenna by coming to her celebration and to see the generosity (she now has more toys than ever). We are so grateful. Thanks to all of you who came to join in! We hope you had a good time! Mommy and Daddy got Brenna a cute little Disney Princess car and she seems to really like it. She continues to make us smile and laugh on a regular basis with all her cute antics. She will graduate to the "ones" classroom with all the other one year olds on Monday and we can hardly believe it. She is getting better with the sippy cup (now that we bought a transitional one) and the bottles will be bye-bye!

Walking pictures

As promised, here are the pictures of Brenna taking some of her first steps. Since our camera was left in Show Low, we couldn't post them any sooner, but wanted to make sure they were put out into blog world!