First Birthday

We recently celebrated Elizabeth's first birthday. Grammy and Papaw Cline were here for Thanksgiving and we had a little "party" for Elizabeth. Some how it seems that she knew that she should get excited when opening her gifts!

Elizabeth continues to amaze and entertain us. We just can't get over how smart she is. She pretty much understands everything that you say. Her verbal vocabulary consists of: hi, kitty, Mama, Dada, hello (when she's pretending to answer a phone), tree, and thank you. (I think that's it!)

She plays very well by herself. One of her most recent favorite things to do is to put ornaments on the Christmas tree. We have soft/plush/non-breakable ornaments toward the bottom of the tree. She takes them off and then puts them back on by setting them on a branch and hoping they stick. She also likes to get the real telephone and press the numbers. We're waiting for a phone bill that says that she's called Brazil or something. Elizabeth likes to give the kitty hugs (sometimes the kitty doesn't mind). She also likes to throw objects through the cat door that leads to the basement. Whenever I go to the basement where our washer and dryer are, she will sit and look through the cat door at me...it's so funny!

Our little piggy eats anything (and everything). She seems to have a hollow leg these days. She no longer gets bottles during the day--only one bottle at night. She's not the best sleeper in the world, but she's better than she was at one time.

She goes around saying "hi" over and over when she sees you. She puckers up when she gives kisses now, but she's a little stingy with the kisses at times! If you hand her a tissue and tell her to blow her nose, she puts it up to her nose and makes a blowing noise through her mouth. It's pretty funny!

At this moment, she's got the TV remote and is pressing the buttons and pointing it at the ceiling fan! I'm not sure where she got that idea from, but it didn't work. I just asked her if she was hungry and she went running to her high chair! Got to go!!