1st Christmas in the books!

Annie's cute Christmas portrait :)

I just love this picture...

Well, I feel like Annie is just taking off into BIG Girl Land! She is growing like crazy. She is crawling at what seems to be 90 mph, waving 24/7, eating lots of table foods and almost refusing to eat her baby food, knowing who people are (if you ask her, "Where's so and so?" She'll look at their picture or them if they're in the room), saying more consonants, etc. Annie is such a happy little girl- she is always full of smiles! She's full of kisses, too. She loves to lay big, wet ones on you! It's cute...
Her first Christmas was tiring but fun. She, of course, didn't understand the whole Santa or present concept but she ate a lot of wrapping paper :) She was such a good girl. It was a special few days for us.
We're just so in love with her- I can't get enough. She is just the best baby- always in a great mood and with a smile to give. I'm a borderline obsessed mother.... ha ha.
Happy New Year!

Top tooth emerges...

This morning, we discovered Annie's 1st top tooth! Very exciting....
She was actually grinding her little teeth together in her sleep (how we realized it had popped through) which was very strange.

She is getting to be such a big girl. Last night, she pretty much hauled and crawled herself out of the bathtub. She's a little rascal.....and DETERMINED! They do teach them how to crawl out of the pool at swimming so I'm guessing that besides being a normal thing for an 8.5 month old to do, this might have had something to do with it!

Happy Birthday to Uncle Dan! I love you.

Nosy, nosy, nosy...and Merry Christmas!

Well, pretty much right after I posted the last entry, our little muffin started crawling- the REAL way! She is on the move and loves knowing what everyone else is up to! She'll peak around doorways and crawl into other rooms to see what we're doing if we put her down elsewhere. She doesn't want to miss a trick!
She doesn't seem to be very into the Christmas tree which is a good thing given that she is also starting to pull herself up onto things.
She is just so happy and enjoyable- we wish we could freeze time every day. Annie is also quite the singer- always singing at the top of her lungs :) She especially loves it when Daddy sings "Patience" by Guns 'n Roses to her (not kidding but wish I was)! We might have a hair-bander on our hands....
As you can see from the photo, Annie had her first visit with creepy, mall Santa last night and loved every minute of it!