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4/28/08 (Lila, age 10 months)

I love this video; I just think it's just really sweet (at the end, Lila crawls over to me and makes me put the camera away).

Please don't mind the dining chair and the playpen in Lila's bedroom! We're moving in two weeks and all of our things are displaced.

And yes, I'm wearing Isotoner slippers. They're hot.

6/7/08 (Lila, age 12 months)

This is a really funny video, but I wish I had started filming 3 minutes earlier, because then you would be able to revel in the hilarity that preceded this film: Mike's ham-fisted attempts to light all of Lila's birthday candles! None of the candles would light and Mike was getting all frustrated because the stubborn candles kept going out and wax was dripping everywhere. He finally got them lit, but the minute he picked up the cake to transport it to the table, the ceiling f

6/7/08 (Lila, age 12 months)

Lila's not the only one who loves cake; I love me some cake, too!

Note: at one point in the video, I thought Lila dropped her spoon and then caught it, but she didn't...she was just tapping it on her tray. (In my peripheral vision, it looked like she caught it.) Just wanted to mention that to avoid confusion.

6/7/08 (Lila, age 12 months)

Lila, doing some major damage on her cake! Mike is making salad in the background (we try to wedge in a few vegetables whenever we have plans to hit the sugar particularly hard, lol). Whenever we have salad, we mourn Grandma T.'s absence, because she makes the best salad dressing ever and we can never seem to match it on our own!

6/7/08 (Lila, age 12 months)

Lila enjoys her first-ever piece of cake! Up until this point, the sweetest thing she'd ever tasted was fruit, so we weren't sure how she would react to cake and ice cream. (I think she likes it!)

Frankly, I'm surprised the cake didn't just melt into one big, pink puddle because it was literally 98 degrees in our house on Lila's birthday.


The cake was awesome, if I do say so myself! It was chocolate cake (obviously), with chocolate frosting on the inside and vanilla frosting

6/07/08 (Lila, age 12 months)

Note: These videos are a little out of order; this one was taken AFTER we ate birthday cake.

And, can I just say that I HATE hearing my voice on tape? I guess I knew I had a regional accent of some kind (since my coworkers and students always used to ask me where I'm from and what my "accent" is!), but until I heard myself say "rash" and "happy birthday" on this video, I had no idea how bad I sound. It's very strange to watch and hear yourself on video, especially when you've

7/18/08 (Lila, age 13 months)

This is just a little clip of Lila talking a little bit. She says "Dada," "Mama," and "Uh-oh" in this video. Pretty cute!

7/17/08 (Lila, age 13 months)

She says "uh-oh" in this one, too. Just a cute video of her handling her little sippy cup.

7/17/08 (Lila, age 13 months)

This one shows Lila taking several steps at once! It's really cute!

7/17/08 (Lila, age 13 months)

Another great video of Lila walking!

7/17/08 (Lila, age 13 months)

Aunt Whitney made Lila a beautiful quilt! I took this video right after we took it out of the box. (I wish this video showed the quilt's colors better; they are really gorgeous and bright in person.) Lila was so interested in the quilt and she kept going over to it and touching it.

This video is SO adorable. Lila went right over to her new quilt and cuddled up to it! (I think it's safe to say she loves it!) Thank you, Aunt Whitney!

Note: Don't worry, Lila's sippy cup is only filled with water! (There's nothing in there that would damage the quilt.) :-)

This video is out of order (it was taken nearly a month ago) but it's cute. It's just a quick video of Lila and Cocoa. Cocoa comes right up to the camera and smiles! (Sorry the picture is so dark; this video was taken at night and we didn't have enough lamps in the living room to keep filming.)