Vital Stats: One Year (!)

Height: 30 3/4 in.
Weight: 21 lbs.
Head circumference: 18 1/4 in.
Teeth: Five (two vampire teeth, one front tooth, two bottom teeth)

New tricks:

• Constant babbling. Can say, "Ma ma ma" and "Da da da";
• understands what to do when Mauricia says, "Besitos!" (throw kisses);
• loves loves loves looking at photos of herself and cousin Harper;
• standing, then lifting her arms over her head and twirling her hands in circles (Look! I stuck the landing!);
• standing and taking a few drunken sailor steps towards Mommy or Daddy;
• can suck sugar-filled smoothies through a straw and stay up until 9;
  
• pretending that Cheerios are tiddly winks and launching them with her index finger from her high chair; and,
• Skinning a blueberry in 30 seconds flat.

Favorite book:

• Dr. Seuss's The Tooth Book. We read this every day at least four times a day.

Favorite foods:

• Cubed tofu
• Aforementioned blueberries
• Yogurt
• Anything that we're eating

Zora thinks it's really funny when:

• Daddy lets her "walk" on the ceiling;
• We hide behind something then scare her; and
• We wave a latex glove in her face then suddenly inflate it (Really. She was in hysterics at the doctor's office.)