A Very Big Girl Day

As you can see from the previous post today, Brianna started today with deciding to feed herself oatmeal like a big girl.  It ended with another very big girl event ... deciding that she's going to walk most everywhere instead of crawl!  That's right, she decided tonight that she no longer wanted to hold my finger to walk everywhere, but instead decided that she could do it on her own.  Unfortunately, that also means she has her first walking related ouchie and I'm sure there will be more to come.  She's got a small bruise on her cheekbone, which you can see in the first video how she got it.

She's not too sure about walking on her own on the tile, but she cruised the living room after dinner on two feet instead of all fours, with Mommy following close behind to set her back on her feet occasionally.

First Ouchie

Toddling Along

Today was also the second attempt at her one year pictures.  At first, I thought it was going to be a no go like last time as she went into meltdown mode as soon as we took the first picture.  Apparently, the flash of the lights scared her and after 20 minutes of more than a few tears, closely examining Nicole's very expensive camera and adding a few fingerprints to the lens (so sorry about that!) and just generally allowing her to crawl around and check everything out, she decided that she would allow us to take her picture.  And "allow" really does seem to fit how the photo session went.  To say I have an active child is an understatement.  Nicole and I were both sweating by the time we were done just from trying to keep up with her and wrangle her somewhat into position for a picture.  We should have a link to the proofs in a little over a week and I can't wait to see them.  Once she settled down and decided to be happy, she was all smiles and giggles, despite the fact that she wanted to get into anything and everything she could!

On another note....Its the first day of Spring and snowing outside.  It should not be snowing in Dallas in the middle of March.  And its not just a few dry flakes.  Their big, fat, wet, fluffy snow flakes like what I'm used to seeing in Minneapolis in January.  They simply do not belong in Dallas in March but its beautiful nonetheless.