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We had a fun Christmas with Charlotte. She opened lots of presents and seems to be enjoying her new toys.

Charlotte is 1 today! We had a busy day doing last-minute Christmas errands and going for a walk.

We put a candle in Charlotte’s toast this morning:

Later we had presents and dinner with her Nana and Papa.

Charlotte loves her new wagon from my Nana and Papa:

And she loved her first cake. We got her a maple cake with maple frosting. She ate an entire piece and made a giant mess.

Other than some version of “Daddy” or “Dad,” Charlotte’s first word was “mop” the other night when Brian took the mop out. She said it a few times in a row, with varying degrees of accuracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYHKgbsGyA0

Charlotte is obsessed with blueberries. She would eat an entire container in a sitting if we let her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1dGGgniATI

Some of her other favorite things to eat are broccoli, zucchini, black beans, Goldfish, olives and macaroni and cheese. She likes anything salty or with some spice to it. Charlotte is so far not a fan of whole milk, although she has started drinking it if we mix it with a lot of water (and still refer to it as water).

We got some snow over the weekend and it’s been cold ever since, after a nice mild November. We bundled Charlotte up pretty well, although she couldn’t move very well with all her gear on. And her boots are already too small and kept falling off.

We think Charlotte may be practicing for the gymnastics floor exercise at the Olympics. According to Brian (who does bath time every night), this is a regular ritual before her bath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlVOFGZgYQc

Charlotte really loves the bath.

We caught a few steps on camera yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGobODNLoM

Charlotte has been eating nonstop the past few days–we figure it’s either because of a growth spurt or the learning to walk, or both.

We’ve had a few busy, nice days yesterday and today. For Charlotte’s first Thanksgiving we went to my parents’ house for lots of yummy food. Charlotte really liked the butternut squash soup, brussel sprouts and mashed potatoes. She loved the cranberry sauce. And she ate her first meat, a few bites of turkey.

I spent awhile today trying to take a video of Charlotte walking, but I didn’t succeed. I just got a lot of videos like this of her standing up and tearing apart the Pottery Barn catalog. She takes three or four steps at a time and then sits back down. She walks away from furniture, or toward Brian or I, and then seems to realize she’s walking and sits down again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkXzsLYzGJw