The New Catalano Family: July 2010

I have to admit, I set my expectations for this blog pretty high when I started it. I was newly pregnant, learning new preggo things to write about and not really going out of the house much (towards the end anyway). Now that Luciana's here... not so much "free time" going around!

Here are the big things going on:

Luciana turned one!!!!

This year has flown by! Luciana started out the day of her party with an unplanned trip to the Dr. office. She was really stuffed up and then her eye started swelling a little so I needed to make sure she wasn't contagious before we had a backyard full of kids. She ended up having a sinus infection (not contagious). But, in true LuLu form, she had a blast at her party and you never would have known she was sick. She wore such a cute little party dress (with a b-day girl t-shirt over it for cake eating time) then later changed into her more "casual" party wear. : )

She got a ton of gifts, now we just need to figure out where to put all of them! She also loved her cake. Not only did she try to pick up her ENTIRE cake and put it in her mouth, she then proceeded to wipe all of the frosting into her hair, making a great frosting mohawk.

Perfect 1st birthday!!

Also, on the day of her b-day (July 2) we were up north at my parents cabin and she took her 1st real steps! She had been taking one or two "falling forward" kind of steps already but these were the first actual walking ones! Now she's cruising all over the house (but still crawls if there's something she needs to get to right away!).