Walking!!

I thought I'd share a video with you of me walking. I'm getting so much better. It took me a while but today I made it all the way across the living room by myself. It was a big day today because this is the first time I've taken over 5 steps by myself!! Look out world!!

Almost ONE!

Today is my last day of being an infant. Tomorrow is the big day that I turn one year old. I'm lucky and some friends of Mommy and Daddy and family have already sent me presents and I begged and begged them and they finally let me open a few presents early. Here are some videos and pictures of me opening the presents. Thank you so much Nichol, Dave, Syd and Jacob and Ty and Jerry. I still have presents from Aunt Peggy, Aunt Gretchen and Nana and Papa that Mommy and Daddy are making me wait to open.

First trip to the zoo

Today Mommy and Daddy took off work and took me to the St. Louis Zoo. I was so excited that I took a nap on the way there to make the drive go by faster. I loved looking at the animals but was most excited by the Carousel and clapped and squealed as we approached. I was so excited to ride on the Carousel, but got afraid to ride the horse by myself (with Mommy holding onto me) so we decided to sit on the bench that doesn't move instead of the horse that moves and both had fun going around and around. I think my favorite animals were the Penguins because I could get the closest to them, there was one that was having a lot of fun swimming and splashing all the visitors, including me and Daddy. :) Here are some pictures from my day....

First Steps

Well I finally did it. I took my first steps all by myself this morning. Mommy had put me down at Kindercare and I wasn't ready for her to leave so I put out my arms up reaching to my Mommy so she would pick me back up, I guess she didn't understand what I wanted because she just waived at me and said bye-bye. So I was forced to take matters into my own hands and take a step toward her. Daddy was there and he said "look, she just took a step" so I had to do it again to make my Daddy happy so I took a second step towards Mommy. I guess she finally understood that I meant business and wanted to be held because she picked me up and gave me a big hug and kisses and was so happy to be holding me again. Ms. Barb then took me and was holding me so I could waive bye-bye to Mommy and Daddy through the window as they left.

Eye surgery June 5th!

My eye surgery is scheduled for June 5th. We have PreOp on May 28th and find out all the details of where to go and when to be there and what time my last meal can be, etc. So I will update more after we get more info.

Eye Surgery

Well I saw the Ophthamologist Wednesday afternoon and he said I'm going to have to have surgery on my eye to fix my blocked tear duct. Mommy and I are a little nervous about me being put under for this outpatient surgery but we also are both looking forward to her not having to wipe my eye all the time because it makes me cry and push her hand away!

I've been waiting to post this until we have a date set for the surgery but the hospital is waiting for the paperwork to come back from billing before they can schedule it. The lady said the first part of June will be the earliest this can get done because the doctors resident is out a lot in May. Hopefully they can call us back very soon and we can get this scheduled to be done before our vacation to Portland.