Cruising, dancing, and singing

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of Camila doing these things, but just this weekend I noticed that she has started "cruising" along the furniture. She's also "walking" behind her walk-behind toy. While I don't consider this to be truly walking, I'm guessing Fabricio's right when he said she'll be walking soon. That's when all craziness breaks lose, right? ;) She also seems to dance with me. I'll pick her up and dance around the room and sing when one of my favorite songs comes on the radio (right now it's Viva la Vida by Coldplay.) This weekend Camila started to kick her feet, shake her head, and wave her hands a little. I think that's her way of dancing. Plus, she started shaking her head when the song came on in the car. She also sings along, making "ahhh" sounds. Now I'm trying to teach her to sing to other songs, so this morning it was U2. I love how she gets more and more interactive each day!

I hate Sundays (plus, this is my 100 post!)

I hate Sundays. No matter how hard, easy, busy, boring the weekend has been, I hate Sundays. It's 5 long days until I get to spend any quality time with Camila. The entire week is rush, rush, rush. At least it's a short week, as I'm taking Thurs afternoon and Friday off. Anyway, enough of my complaining. Although I didn't capture any pictures of this, I had a great time this afternoon sitting on the couch snuggling with Camila. We enjoyed our Honeycrisp apples and cheddar cheese snack. :) It was so much fun just sitting there for 20 minutes cuddling with her! Here she is hiding in a "tunnel".

Here she is brushing her hair (I had to buy her a normal brush - the baby brush no longer gets the tangles out!).

Here she is stuck behind the end table (she thought it would be fun to crawl though, but didn't realize she couldn't get out as she can't crawl backwards!)

A few shots from dinner tonight. Little Miss Attitude was demanding chili (which she loves) but her mean mom made her eat her veggies first.

I think someone taught her sign language, but she does the "milk" sign whenever she just wants food in general. She had both hands going tonight at dinner, demanding more chili or corn muffin.

Whenever Camila is tired, she puts her hand up by her face. It's a dead giveaway that it's time for a nap, or an early bedtime in this case.

1 year check-up

Quick stats from Camila's one year wellness child exam. She's now 21.5 lbs (55%) and 29 1/4 (50%). Her head is 18 in (75%). I was surprised that she jumped from roughly 30% in length for her past couple appts up to 50%. I guess she's not quite as short as we thought - she just looks like a peanut compared to some other babies her age that I've seen lately. :) She's keeping my on my toes, so I haven't had much time to update the blog. I'm just exhausted at the end of the day. We're both looking forward to Fabricio coming home in a week!!

More birthday fun!

Here's a picture of Camila opening a present from my high school friend Anna. This is one advantage of not celebrating her birthday until 2 weeks after the date. She gets to open a new present every few days, so it's almost like 2 weeks of birthday fun! :)

Birthday fun with the Quales

Camila got to spend her birthday with Audrey and Lily, while I got to spend some time with Ang. Camila kept wanting to "pet" Audrey, which was pretty darn cute. She'd be on one side of the room, and point to Audrey, or crawl over to her, or as you can see in the picture, try to climb into my lap when I was holding Audrey.

We had a great time, and as usual, stayed longer than we thought. :) My plan was to leave when Lily went down for her nap so Ang could get some rest, but we ended up chatting until Lily was about to get up! Hopefully Audrey gave Ang a good night since she had a busy day with us! ;)