Naomi will be one in just one short week! I always thought that once your child hit one, you entered into the hard, not-fun part of parenting. That all of a sudden your baby disappears and you're stuck with this fussy, independent, difficult monster. Although there is a wee bit of truth to that, and there are growing pains (and teething pains) involved, I am LOVING this phase of Naomi's life. She is exploring with her words---she said her first word, "hi" this past week! "Bye" followed a few days later. Now we're working on animal sounds, although Tucker and I both could have sworn she said "mine" today. Actually it's a mix of "buy" and "mine" when she sees something she likes or wants!
We had a crazy little adventure yesterday when we were taking a walk with Aunt Emily Currie. We live across the street from this gorgeous cemetery with really stately tombstones and large pathways to walk down. P.T. Barnum, Tom Thumb and Fanny Crosby are all burried there, although we have yet to find Fanny Crosby's marker. Anyway, we were strolling along, the three of us, Naomi all bundled up in her new winter jacket from Grammy. And when we got to the gate to leave we realized that all of the gates were locked. Apparently they "lock at sunset" without even checking to see if anyone is being locked in the cemetery! SO...Emily hopped the fence then I passed Naomi over, then I hoisted the baby stroller up and over and then I hopped over too. Thankfully Emily was there because I would have been stuck inside unable to hop over with the baby! It was Naomi's "first adventure" of that genre.
