Mommy's cabbage patch wears a DIAPER! (very exciting discovery!)
Kitties and Grandma and Grandpa's "old house"!
Happy 1, a little early, for cousin Jakob!
"Cwal" Jakob, "cwal"!
Big Sunday morning smiles with Gma and Gpa and their zebra at the NEW house!
Tea party and a 5 Crowns game with Nana
The best petting farm ever - stuffed animals! Good ol' Molbaks...
Papa gave me a stuffed animal to pose with and I learned that it's fun to say SKUNK!
Aunt Michele giving me some lovin' 
Bday lunch for Mommy at Cheesecake Factory
Posing with panda at the Great Wolf Lodge - time to get out of my fancy dress and go play! 
So, there feels like a lot to catch up on, but here are some pics and a video to summarize! I am LOVING this age ... just trying to enjoy every moment since it will be no time before "Pop" becomes "Papa" and "Gwum" becomes "drum" and "One Two" becomes One through 100!! Toriana's vocabulary has exploded this month - so much that I lost count, but she's got at least 200 words now - yay! She's a sweetheart - gives wonderful hugs, has great giggle fits and generally wants to please - and I love her more every day! This month, we got to share her with Grandma &Grandpa at Thanksgiving (and Aunt Mary, Uncle/Aunt/cousin SKJ, and Great-Gpa) and with Nana &Papa and Aunt Michele when they came out for 9 days in early December. She enjoyed exploring Gma and Gpa's new house but she thought it a bit lacking in toys (we helped with some of their early move-in and finishing work while in town) - she loved watching birds on the lake. And the raccoons at Great Grandpa's house - she's still talking about them! She was so sad when Jakob had to leave 2 days before we did - it wasn't nearly as fun once he was gone. But he had to head west so his Daddy could cheer the Huskies to an Apple Cup WIN!
Toriana had a great time reading books, having tea parties, and playing with her new dollhouse with Nana ... And Mommy got to go for a massage and do some projects, so that was quite lovely! We 6 made a quick jaunt south to celebrate my bday with Cheesecake Factory and a night at the Great Wolf Lodge - pretending to be a kid again, I guess. Whew, how the years have flown... just have to appreciate them rather than bemoan their quick passage I suppose.
Let's finish up with a sweet little video clip of a piano duet. =) Hope everyone has a happy holiday season and lots to smile about in 2010.
