Happy Birthday

This post is a bit late in coming primarily because I've been working on a video for Payton's 1st year.  I've given up a bit simply because all her photos from the first 5 months have been put on an external hard drive by Dwayne (my lap top was conking out with the data overload) and we can't find the power souce cable for the external hard drive.  Uhhhgg.

So, a quick Happy Birthday to my Baby Girl.  What an amazing year its been.

In a brief recap as to what is new with Payton, we are so excited to say that she started walking 100% about 4 days earlier.  While she had/has been taking a number of steps, many voluntary, many not, as of a few days ago she has simply decided that crawling isn't for her.   What a determined and stubbron little girl she is.

And, what makes it so exciting is how incredibly pleased she is with herself.  For the first few days she would walk from point A to B and once she arrived at her destination she would laugh, squeel and clap, congratulating herself like we did when she first started.

(In retrospect, as Í'm writing this 10 days later Payton continues to accomplish challenging things like getting on and off the couch and will continue to clap, squeel and congratulate herself on a job well done).

She has a few 'words' (I say this in quotation because while they don't sound like much, they certainly mean a lot to such a little girl).

Of course she knows the "daa" part of "daa peek-a-boo" and loves to play.

She also says:
 'dagh' for dog
'baa' for bye
'ge ge' for gentle (though she doesn't act on it)
and the puh sound in up...(this one being my favourite as she sounds like a quite little fish)

We've also established that Payton is going to the holy terror in the family.  Livy was a very amicable little baby/toddler (until around 1.5) while Payton is a little scrapper.  She's hitting already when you take a toy away, she'll grab and hord toys/objects when she gets them and she has this high wail/screech when things are not going her way.  Defense mechnism born from all she has endured?? Maybe.  One thing is for sure, she's a fiesty little fighter so watch out world.

Happy 1st Birthday Payton!