My baby turned one yesterday! It's so strange to think about how much she has changed in one year. I can so clearly remember the days leading up to her birth, and the days just after. She was so so tiny when she was born and now she is walking and into just about everything she can get her hands on.
She is 29" tall, 45th percentile. She weighs 21 lbs 7 oz, 74th percentile. I was surprised to see that weight today at the doctor's office because we were just in last week to check on her ears and she was 20 lbs 13 oz. She is about to outgrow her carseat! Her head circumference is 47.2 cm, 95th percentile. Her head just keeps getting bigger, the percentile keeps increasing. I'm sure her body will catch up with it one day.
She loves string cheese, teddy grahams, and fruit. She loves frozen blueberries, strawberries, cantaloupe, honey dew, and grapes. I know you aren't supposed to give them grapes because they can choke but we only gave her tiny ones and she seriously has a mouth full of teeth. She's got her front four on top and bottom and she has four molars that have come in with I think a couple more cutting through. It is so hard to brush those dang teeth though. She hates it. It takes both Kelly and I to hold her down. They get pretty gross though because I forget to do it more often than I remember. I need to get on it though or else this girl will have a mouthful of cavities! And gross teeth, which is just embarrassing. She wants to eat whatever we are eating. If she has something on her tray and it's not the same thing we have on our plates, she yells at us because she wants what we have. If she doesn't like something she tries, she spits it out and then hands it to me. So nice. I love chewed up food.
When she is done eating she puts her food in the cup holder spot and then yells at us. Yes, those are boy pajamas she is wearing in that picture. My mom had some in her size at her house that were brand new, and the more pajamas she has, the less laundry I have to do so I put them on her regularly.
She likes to play outside. I took her to the park a couple of times because the weather has been really warm lately. The first time I took her she wouldn't get off of my lap for the first twenty minutes. I tried putting her in the swings, because she loved them when she was 8 months old, and she screamed. So we just sat until she finally decided she was ready to venture off my lap. She found a stick and then brought it back to me and sat on my lap to play with it. Eventually she was roaming all over the park and when we had to leave she got pretty mad. The next time I took her there she was happy to get off of my lap much quicker than the first time.
Lately she has loved containers. Cardboard boxes, tupperware, totes, you name it. She loves to put things in them. She cleaned up our whole living room the other day because there was a cardboard box from Costco. She put all of her toys in it. Sometimes she takes her toys back out and then puts them back in.
This is a box she filled up last night with some cool stuff like my shoe and Kelly's belt. A lot of times she tries to pick up her boxes full of things but they are usually about as big as she is and so she gets mad and screams because she's frustrated that she can't pick them up.
She always brings us things. Today at the doctor's office she brought me all the books and magazines in the waiting room one by one. I said "thank you" each time she brought me one. When she had brought them all to me she took some back and then brought them back to me again. Then when the doctor came in she brought the doctor all of the books. Sometimes she brings me her toys and then looks at me like she's expecting me to do something and I don't know what she wants so I just throw it across the room and she goes and gets it and brings it back. Maybe that's what she wants?? I do not know.
Another thing she loves to do is turn the pages of books. Before bedtime we read a story and she loves to turn each page. Luckily there aren't very many words on the pages of the books we read because she gets in a real hurry to turn each page. She brings us books and we just hold them up for her so she can turn each page. She does it over and over again, multiple times a day.
She likes to "help" with things. Yesterday I was moving the laundry and she started putting all the clean clothes back into the dryer while I was throwing the wet ones in. I tell her thanks because I want her to keep trying to help me even when it's not helping. She loves the dishwasher but I don't let her help with that at all.
Her favorite show is called "The Notekins." It's from a baby channel. When I have to leave her so I can shower or something I put that show on for her. She still gets mad at me for leaving though. She never really sits and watches anything for more than 20 minutes unless she has just woken up or she is about to go to sleep. She is usually on the move! She loves dancing. She shakes her head back and forth or sometimes she bounces her knees up and down if a song comes on. It's so cute. Sometimes she just bangs her head on stuff though. It's kind of weird. At church last week she was sitting on the ground and she kept banging her head against the back of the pew on purpose. She does it against the wall sometimes or the back of the couch. She doesn't do it super hard or anything, but I don't get it.
Last night I was in my bedroom when I heard a loud noise coming from her room. I went to go see what she was doing and she had grabbed the lamp off of her little table and was carrying it around. Then today she was still fascinated by it and she sat and played with it.
This last year has been the best year of our lives! We love our little family so much. When I think back on those days right after she was born, it's crazy to think of how much personality she has now. She is so silly and she makes me laugh every day. I love spending my days with her.
