Sylvia is 1 year old!!

Happy Birthday

Sylvia!!!

Sylvia Rose is one year old today! She's happy and healthy and sweet as can be!

She weighs about 20 pounds, 10 ounces. She seems to have reached a point where her weight gain has started to slow down, but you wouldn't think it from carrying her around! Our arms are tired!! She now has 4 teeth, and she uses them pretty well. She eats all sorts of things these days. She has a funny ritual, though, of tasting something for a moment, spitting it out while she considers how she feels about it, and then putting it back if it passes her taste test. She has taken a few unaided steps here and there, but she is still primarily a crawler / cruiser. She's started reaching for us when we ask if she wants "up" and crawling over to us to sit on our laps or put her head against us. You can imagine how happy that makes us!

She's been really good through all the moving and travelling, not to mention the fact that Max and I are both spending a lot of time working on our dissertations. Once we have a moment to relax, I'll get a video or two up.

What a year!!

Here are a few pictures of the birthday girl: