Vivian Turned 1!

My baby is 1 year old!  She decided to start her birthday with a bang.  She cut a tooth (and was up for 4 hours in the middle of the night with it), learned how to crawl up the stairs (do you know how many staircases we have in our house?!) and learned how to pull herself up to standing (in her crib when she is supposed to be sleeping and hasn't learned how to sit down) all the week of her birthday.  It was a fun and exhausting week.  She has really changed since she learned how to crawl.  She is so much more curious now and loves to explore.  She LOVES to crawl up the stairs so it feels like I spend my day either pulling her off them or standing behind her as she climbs.  Cecilia is such a good big sister and helps me lots with Vivian on the stairs.  She still loves to play with her (sometimes too much).  But I can see the beginning of the battle between toys is in our near future.  Then the real work starts.  But for right now we are enjoying our little girls.

Vivian sharing her birthday cupcake.  She loved it! Notice there isn't much mess? That's because she ate it, not smeared it!

Birthday presents!