I know I said I wasn’t going to use months for Anya’s age after she hit 1, but that doesn’t encourage me to make little monthly posts. I suppose I could say she is 1.2, but then I would have to do complex fractiony-algebra-type stuff, and I do enough of that at work.

Anya’s first birthday was pretty low key and a few weeks after the fact. My parents were going to come up for Anya’s real birthday, but my Mom got sick so we waited a bit. When my folks made it up, we baked some pink cupcakes topped with pink frosting, cheerios, and a candle (or something that looked like a candle). I was going to make her a giant cheerio cake, but someone informed me that wouldn’t that just be a bundt cake or a donut? and it didn’t seem so cool. Plus I am lazy.

It took a little coaxing to get the birthday girl started on her cake, but once she discovered the pink goodness, Anya could not be stopped.

Here are some things Anya has been up to the last two months. She:

+ Finally sits up on her own. Before that she would just flop around on the floor like a fish on the bottom of a boat until we’d give her a finger to pull on to sit up.

+ Mastered the scoot. Some babies wear out the knees in their pants; she’s gonna wear out the butts.

+ Correctly placed the cow puzzle piece into the cow puzzle spot.

+ Threw a temper tantrum in the grocery store. Mean Mama for taking away the bag of frozen lima beans so we could check out!

+ Started drinking cow’s milk.

+ Started drinking out of a sippy straw cup. When she’s not banging it on the floor. Or waving it around. Or tossing it over her shoulder.

+ Somersaulted. A gymnastic feat or what happens when a baby tries to scoot down a hill quickly?

+ Began wearing clothes without snaps in the crotch. She does still have snappy clothes, but she has “regular people clothes” now, too.

+ Swung.