Dance dance!

Lila loves to dance. She requests to dance several times a day. I turn the music on and 80% of the time she comes over and says "mom me, dance!!" we twirl and spin and two step around the room. I leap, skip, sway, tap.. Small routines have Ben been made.
Lila has been working on twirling on her own for a couple of weeks. But yesterday she did it!! And now she twirls twirls! She mostly likes to twirl with one hand up in the air, maybe for balance.. She is a great dancer and has tons of moves. Two more years until dance classes! Haha

Opposites

Lila knows lots of new things. Open and shut, open and close.
High.... Low.... She songs these in the said tones, I made up a song about here comes the bunny... Hop hop hop... He hops high and low... It's is a goo way to teach notes and that up is high down is low.
She knows up and down too. For a while "up" was everything and anything that she wanted (to be picked up or for her to pick or hold something... Now she has it figured out!
On, off. I love how she says these."on! Offffff..." On and off is for water faucets, clothes, shoes, diaper, etc.
Here are some pictures from today.

13 months!

" Dance dance dance. " says Lila! She loves to dance. We listen and dance to pandora a lot. Lots of old country, some 90s pop, some indie (haha) lots of raffi and children's music. We have lots of fun. Lila loves to dance in her own and she loves to dance while I hold her. We two step and tango. We spin dip and twirl too. Sometimes Lila requests to dance when she wants to take a nap. We dance our sillys out (a raffi song) and then slow dance, Lila will out her head on my shoulder as get so relaxed. It makes me so happy and a little sad too because I know this time is fleeting. I want to dance with my baby forever. And I will just not always this way!
Smelling the flowers. I taught Lila to smell the flowers. When she sees flower in a book or real life *sniff sniff*
it is pretty cute.
Lila has lots of new words. She says do many words it would take a lt of thinking to write them all down. She says a new word what seems like everyday. We puts two words together quite a bit. And she sings! The other day she sung along with John Denver "let it be" she was singing "be be be" it tune and right along with the song!
This last month has been so much fun. Watching Lila explore and experience the world... It's really fun and amazing!

Two words, puzzles, and more

New milestones to share and record.
Lila showed possession "Mama Gigi's" (wallet.)
She is putting two worlds together a lot. Mostly "bye bye (cat, dada, etc)" and "hi (Momal, squirrel,etc)
Last night put together a puzzle. One piece after the other, I was very impressed.
Another one of her new favorite things is to put everything "on" yesterday it was dada's shoes. They are very hard to walk in though!

A Monday in pictures

Baby bloomers.... Nap.... Afternoon walk....

v1.3

Vocabulary update... Children, open, on, no, achoo, happy, thankyou, hold you, cockle, baby, pappy, Andrew.
She has a few new signs butterfly, horse and cat. I need to learn some more because she picks them up quickly!

This week Lila had a few firsts... She climbed up a indoor playground at chickfila. And slide down the slide. I was right there but she did it all by herself.
We all went to the splash pad at Auditorium Shores on Tuesday evening. Lila had a blast. I could see in the summers this place could get crazy. I was having to chase her around to keep her from getting knocked over by a group of ( crazy) boys. It was windy and Lila got goosebumps so she got her dress back on and enjoyed the grassy hills and the views of the skyline.
Lila loves cats and a friendly kitty liked Lila too! She must have smelled good after her bath!

It's my party... (v.1.1)

I'll cry if I want to... 

songs were danced to, bubbles were blown, lots of playing with all her guest, fun was had, food was eaten,  presents were opened... Lila was ready for a nap... not cake,  she (accidentally) touched it, and didn't want to sit in the highchair either...  maybe next year.  She did enjoy the water right afterwards though!  Lila had a great first birthday.  Thank you to everyone to helped make it special!

in her birthday suit

opening presents

the dessert table