Riley Eve Casey

Riley turned one recently and she gave us two presents. The first one came out of the blue as Riley finally decided that flinging herself forward in body slams wasn't her ideal mode of transport. She finally got her co-ordination together and realized she has these things called "knees" and started crawling properly on them. We let out a huge sigh of relief because people kept telling us  that maybe she missed her "window" to learn how to crawl. In the grand scheme of things we weren't extremely worried because I can't imagine that Riley was going to become an adult who had no idea how to crawl; somewhere along the way she would have figured that one out. But it's nice to see your baby do the normal things. So now our days consist of being unable to escape her. You use to be able to just set her down near her toys while you went about your business but now she is following right behind you. I went for a shower the other morning which is all the w