WOW! Feb 24th was my last post? I'm not even going to try and explain why I have been so bad at keeping this updated! But, WOW (again!) do I have a lot to catch up on!!!!
We've been busy (of course)....trips to the Zoo, reading books, birthday parties for friends, a trip to Washington DC and a trip to Spain for Mommy and Daddy, wagon rides, 1st Birthday Parties for Victoria, visit from Grandpa Bob and Mary, spending time with Grandma and Grandpa, wedding in Sioux Falls, hanging out with Uncle Nate, visits from more family, new pool, playing at the park, learning to walk....
Please check out our pictures from the last 4 months to see all of our activities:
http://victoriawirtz.shutterfly.com/.
Victoria has been growing like a weed, of course. She is so much fun right now and still continues to amaze us everyday. She started walking this last weekend and we couldn't be happier. She's been taking steps for some time now, but she didn't quite have the confidence to go the distance. On Friday, she just went from her toy box to Uncle Nate and continued back and forth, back and forth to bring him more and more books to read.
She loves to read and we cannot make it out of her room or the living room (where her toy box is) without reading 2 or 3 books. She loves the flip flap books that she can lift and particpate in the reading.
She's been talking more and more....her most popular vocabulary: "go go go", "bye bye", "Hi", "ba ba"(bottle), "uh oh", "dada", "mama"... The best thing (and not so great thing) is that she will purposly drop something so that she can say "uh oh". We are trying to teach her that when you drop it on purpose...it's not an "uh oh" :).
Some more things that she loves to do: give high fives, open and shut the door, play in the bathroom and kitchen cupboards (tears them apart, much to my dismay :)), try to feed herself with the spoon, hugging and trying to pick up Springsteen, pretending to talk on the the phone, hugging and kissing.... So, we've taught her to give kisses and she's been doing it for quite some time. However, she's turned into the kissing bandit at daycare. She's been caught kissing with Joe Joe the 1 1/2 year old at daycare! I think it's cute, but Daddy is getting a little worried :) She also loves to dance. Any time music comes on or even when you sing, she gets a little shake going on...it's adorable :) She also loves playing with her little people and little animals. She's really gotten to know what each of them are and can grab them when you say the name of the animal and make their sound. We think she's a genius, but that's just us :)
Here's some video of her new accomplishments (note: ignore the annoying Mommy voice!):
1st Learnign to Walk:
Pointing out the different animals:
Walking all by herself:
Feeding herself:
We also had her 1 year pictures taken last weekend. We are so excited to see how they turned out and will share them ASAP.
We hope all is well with everyone else. Sorry we've been too busy to keep this updated. I'm sure everyone else is in the same boat. We hope to see you soon.
Love,
The Wirtz's
