Happy Birthday to Me

I was listening to a commercial on the radio the other day about weight loss (I think it was acutually a commercial for Aetna or Kaiser or something like that) and it said that even if you take two steps forward and one step back, that is still one step forward, and that is progress, and not to think too poorly of yourself if you fell off the wagon, because you did still make forward progress.  I'm taking that to heart not just in terms of my exercise program, but also in terms of this blog.  So I haven't written in 2 months.  That doesn't mean I should stop now, especially since so many exciting things are happening.

I may do a totally seperate post for the fact that Sarah is now 1!  We had a fabulous party with fabulous family and friends in town, but hopefully I'll get around to writing more about that later.  So instead I'll focus on milestones we've reached since August 31st.

1)  We now have 5 (1/2) teeth.  Two on the bottom and pretty much four on top (though one is stubborn and doesn't want to pop through)
2) Our vocabulary has expanded.  Her first word was "doggie" (which she can now apply to more than Bailey and Toby.  When we see dogs on the street, hear dogs barking, or even see pictures of dogs in books or our friends dressed up as dogs on Halloween, all gets the Sarah point and "doggie"... though she may have thought a chicken was a dog as well?).  Other words we've mastered are "day day" (dad), mmmmmum (mom), ah oh (uh oh), ah gee (all gone) and "alley" (hello, often with a phone held to her ear)
3) We've been attending Gymboree together, and unfortunately the entire world does not have mats below it such as it at Gymboree.  Gymboree has taught Sarah lots of climbing skills - however, this doesn't stop Sarah from lunging off furniture, with no abandon to how high it is.  She has however begun going off some things feet first... some things.
4) Few foods are an obstacle anymore.  Though dinner most often consists of chicken (though she prefers the "fake" morning star farm tenders to real ones), vegetable (green beans are her favorite) and a fruit (bananas please!) she did have her first piece of pizza last night.
5) Sarah has become a pro (almost) walker - first with her dinosaur, then with a single finger of mommy or daddy, and today she took three steps by herself!  Before when I would let go she would just stand there hovering, but today when I let go she kept going!  She may have even gone further, but I was so excited a scooped her up and gave her the biggest hug.  What a fabulous birthday gift from Sarah!

I'm sure I'm missing some major or minor accomplishments, but hopefully I'll keep up with this blog more often to record them.  But first steps are something I wanted down in writing... not like I would forget the best 32nd birthday gift ever.