First Steps

On Friday, March 26, Briley took her first steps! We were in Kindermusik playing maracas while listening to a song called "Hop Up, My Baby". On the word "up" we were holding our maracas up over our heads. I was impressed that Briley was holding her maracas up at just the right time in the song!
Then, she decided to crawl to the middle of the circle, stand up, and start walking. She took about 3 steps, fell, got back up, took 3 more, fell again, got back up and took 3 or 4 more steps! I started yelling over the music "she's walking, she's never done that before"! Mrs. G stopped the music and we all started clapping and cheering for her. I was trying my best not to cry!
She has been standing alone for several weeks now, so I was just waiting for those steps to come! She hasn't walked too much since then. She did walk from the coffee table to the back windows when Bae was keeping her on Sunday.
But, she's also had an ear infection and a high fever this weekend, so I think that slowed the walking process. She will be all over the place before we know it!
The picture at the top and the one below were from later Friday afternoon. We have not been able to catch her walking on video yet. I will post that as soon as we can catch it!


Here are a few pictures from the Egg Hunt at church Sunday.

10 months old!

It's hard to believe we will be celebrating Briley's first birthday soon! The past year has flown by! Briley is such a sweet baby. She is a mommy's girl right now. She squeezes me so tight when someone else tries to hold her!
Although she still hasn't said her first word, she has learned a few new "tricks" in the past month. She does the sign for "more" and even signs it when daddy says "mas". Britt is doing a great job teaching these kids Spanish! She also copies some sounds that we make, like "meow". She makes her voice really high!
She is also standing alone for several seconds. I'm really surprised that she's not walking yet. I'm hoping she will be by Easter, but we'll see.
Briley has already given up baby food. She won't let me feed her with a spoon at all! It's all finger foods for her. She thinks she's so big!
The girl loves to climb on things and crawl under things (like the bed!). She's very adventurous!
She really is a good baby, as long as she stays on her nap and bedtime schedule!