First Steps

Suffice it to say we had a lovely Christmas here with my family in Iowa and I intend on adding pictures and such of that later. For now, I wanted to post that I watched Juliana take her first steps tonight.

The past few days she has been showing off her new skills for her adoring extended maternal family members. She can get up and stand in the middle of the floor and had taken one tentative step here and there between pieces of furniture or family members. Tonight she got up and took six solid steps in a row completely on her own. Jonathan and I, her Aunt Amy and cousin Alyssa were all there to see and Juliana was quite pleased with all the clapping and cheering that ensued. I have no doubt that we'll be seeing some repeat performances.

It is rather fitting that Juliana started walking the day after Christmas, my family loves to recount that I took my first steps on Christmas eve (Juliana's birthday is nine days after mine.)

My baby is getting so big. Last year at this time we were still awaiting her arrival. To be more specific, at this time last year we were rather concerned about her arrival. I was hospitalized on Christmas morning and there were a lot of uncertainties. Now that baby that I was worried would be so tiny is a very tall, very sweet, blond baby that is turning into a little girl very very quickly.