12 Months!

My last monthly update… or maybe not.  : )  I can’t decide if I want my updates to be done now that she is one or if I should keep doing them.  I guess I’ll see what the next month brings.  Maybe I could do them quarterly.

~ Toddler!  I get weekly updates from babycenter.com and they always said something like “Your baby at Month 6”  Now they say “Your Toddler”.

~ Giggles!  She giggles more now.  It use to be really hard to get her to giggle and now she seems to do it all the time. 

~ Cheesy Grins!  She has this cheesy little grin she does.  Last night we were eating supper and she went to drop a piece of food overboard and Jesse was telling her “No.  Mally you eat it.”  and she would just grin at him.  Then she would eat it.  Next piece – try to drop it overboard and look at Jesse to see what he was going to do.  He would tell her no again and she flashes that cheesy grin.  This time he couldn’t hold off the giggles – he put his head down and started laughing.  Which caused me to laugh.  Which caused Mally to laugh. 

   ~ Naughty!  She is not allowed to stand up at the bookshelf and pull the big books off.  She just can’t resist the big books with all the pages.  And I know when she is up there because she yells.  It is as if she wants me to know she is being naughty.  One day I squat down to her eye level (because that is what super nanny says to do) and I tell her, “No, you sit on your butt.”  And she starts poking at my face going “gonga gonga gonga!”  OMG!!  I couldn’t hold in the laughter.  I put my head down so she couldn’t see me and I silently giggled.  Pretty soon she is full on giggling!!!  How does she even know I am giggling!  Naughty girl!

~ She understands so much of what we tell her.  When she is standing at the baby gate and I need to get in – I tell her to sit on her butt and she plops right down.  One afternoon I was so exhausted I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer so I told Mally that Mommy needs a 5 second nap and to go get me her blanket.  She went and got her blanket and gave it to me.  Then I told her that Mommy need her giraffe to sleep with.  She surveyed the room for the giraffe, spotted it, and off she went to get it and bring it back to me.  I also made her go get her bunny… which she did and brought it back. 

~ Her Memory!  One afternoon I was playing with her little bunny and singing “Little Bunny Fu Fu”.  The next afternoon I was in the kitchen doing dishes and she was starting to get fussy and climb up my legs so I started signing songs with her.  I started signing Little Bunny Fu Fu and all of sudden she took off for the living room and I couldn’t figure out what she was doing.  Pretty soon she brings me that little bunny I was playing with the day before.  I was shocked!

~ Talking!  She doesn’t say a whole lot of anything that is too understandable.  She says, Momma and Dada and I haven’t figured out if she is using them correctly yet.  She was saying “uppy” for puppy, but now she says “woof woof” when she sees the puppy.  If you ask her what a puppy says she will do her little “woof woof”.  I almost think she said “eese” (cheese) when I held up the block of cheese yesterday.

~ She claps!  I had been trying to get her to clap for so long and she would just hold onto my hands and clap them together.  One day while she was in her high chair she started clapping and hasn’t stopped since. 

~ Eating!  She is on 100% table food.  She eats just about anything and everything you give her.  If she doesn’t like it – she spits it out.  Her favorite is toast.  If I am going to give her applesauce and toast for breakfast she will refuse the applesauce until her toast is gone.  Although, if I tell her she has to take one bite – she will immediately open up her mouth and take her one bite.

~ 75th Percentile!  She had her one year appointment yesterday and she is weighing in at 22 pounds and 30 inches long.  They also gave her FOUR shots and then had to poke her finger and take blood.  Oh she was not happy!  It breaks my heart seeing her get these shots.  When they pricked her finger they put a bright pink band aid on it and she just sat there crying and wiggling her finger with that band aid on it.  I got her all calmed down and went to the truck and when I put her in the carseat and she saw that bright pink band aid she started crying all over again.

~ Teeth!  She currently has 3 teeth, one on top and two on the bottom.  She is also working on 3 more right now.  Between the teeth coming and the mean nurses giving her shots… poor little sweetie pie!

~ Climbing!  She climbs up the stairs all by herself.  She has also now figured out how to lift her legs up when we are walking up stairs.  Before she would just stand there and you would have to pick her up, but now she can “walk up them”. 

~ Walking!  She loves to walk – but isn’t anywhere close to being ready to do it on her own.  She holds onto both hands to walk or she pushes her toys around to walk.  I’ve tried to make her walk only holding one hand and she doesn’t like it.  She will only take a few steps and then refuses to move and whines.   

~ Sleeping!  She is my fantastic little sleeper.  She is still taking two naps a day.  (I’m not ready for one nap a day – I work during naps and most of the time I am trying to get both my jobs squeezed into those two naps.  So when she goes down to one nap I’m really going to have work even faster then I already do!)  She goes to bed about 7:30 and wakes up around 7:30.  I love it!!  Hopefully all our children will sleep this well – makes me a bit nervous to have anymore.

See that little giraffe laying on the ground – she loves it!  She takes it every where.  It is funny to us that she has taken a liking to this hard plastic giraffe. 

Thanks for enjoying these monthly updates and watching our sweet baby girl grow into a giggly toddler!  : )