Zaylee says....

A few days ago, we were out shopping for a new car seat for you and you decided you wanted to be cute and cooperate for me in front of the camera.  The usual scenario consists of you being super cute and funny one minute, and the second you see the camera you shy away and I miss out on the moment, both for the camera's sake and my own in the real-time-moment!  Yesterday, dad kindly asked me to put the camera down and said, "Just be here!"  I guess it is true, but sometimes I just want to be able to show you and tell you all about the special moments and hold on to the memories through snippets of time saved in a frame.  All that to say, here is a little shot of you saying a few of your words.

You are saying more words everyday and it is so fun to see you learn and want to mimic everything we say!  When we sing with you now, you even make up sounds to sing along with us.  It is the sweetest thing.

Sidenote:  While we were out shopping, I learned something about store etiquette, or rather expectation, here in France.  The store employees are not very fond of little, curious, fast, one year old's running around wanting to touch everything they see, even if it is a BABY store.  We were followed by a few women, but we kindly said sorry and I scooped you up and quickly took note not to let you down again.  Thankfully the woman helping us was very kind, and thought you were sweet and didn't mind your curiosity.  We found you a good, solid seat and feel much more confident driving you around now.  It was more of an investment then planned, but this way we will have it for your future brothers and sisters when we come back for visits after we return to the states, and for cousins down the road!