Even though I have been totally MIA, we are still here! I'm going to write the monthly postings as of the date they should have been written rather than what we're actually up to now! Yikes, maybe someday we will be more timely... maybe.
It is truly unbelievable that we are celebrating Kiera's first birthday! What an amazing year it's been! Happy Birthday baby girl! I planned to write Kiera a fabulous message for the one year post but let's face it, I'm already 3 weeks late, so I'll save that for her baby book!
Here's what we're up to at one year:
- At the one year check up she was 20lb 13oz (25-50%), 28.5" (25%) and head 18" (50%). She is definitely thinning out with running all over the place. She still has a couple lovable rolls on her legs but they are disappearing!
- She is a little talker! She says so many words I can't even list them all! It amazes me when I ask her to say a new word, she will often say it and even start using it! Most frequently heard these days: Elmo (we have some hand me down dvds she likes to carry around but I don't know how she is so obsessed with this guy when she doesn't even watch Sesame Street yet), book, ball, bama (banana), mo (while doing the sign for more), go, bup (up), down, done (with the sign) bye bye, bow (she loves her hair bows!), baby (although she thinks all kids are babies right now, or calls them that anyway) and of course all of her animal noises and mama and dada.
- She is still SO social. She is the life of the party everywhere we go, restaurants, stores, walking down the street, anywhere! She waves and talks to anyone who will look her way, or not even look her way! Even the shoe guy at Nordstrom can teach her new words and make her smile. : ) She is so expressive and has started experimenting with different facial expressions, including dirty looks, especially if someone does something she doesn't like, like accidentally bumps into her.
- Still two naps a day, averaging 1.5 hours each but sometimes an extra long morning nap with a shorter afternoon nap.
- She like to dance, although hopefully doesn't get her moves from her mama. : ) She likes to shake her fists when she dances and attempt to snap while making the motion with her hands while making the clicking noise with her mouth.
- She is wearing 12-18 month clothes with a couple of 6-12 month pants till hanging in there and some 18-24 month items. I'm buying mostly 18-24 month items now as between her growing and our extremely hot dryer slowly shrinking the clothes it's probably best.
- She is slowing a little on her eating habits. She used to eat anything put on her plate by the handful, but has started being a little more picky and eating less. We are letting her try just about anything we eat, but she eats lots of fruit, veggies, quesadillas, pasta, muffins, and deli meat/cheese.
- She likes to identify her body parts including eyes, nose, hair, ears, belly button, hands and feet.
- She took her first dip in the pool and played on the beach and LOVED it! She was fearless of the water and loved playing in the waves, despite them knocking her over a few times.
- She has started following directions! It started when I asked her to go in the other room and bring me her pink sweater one day, not AT ALL thinking she would really do it, but she did! I was so surprised and proud! She loves it when we ask her to bring us a certain animal from her toy box, such a smart little girl!
- She has all of her molars coming in at once! They have all broken the surface, but they have a ways to go. She is a little more drooly but otherwise we haven't noticed many effects. She did wake up screaming in the night one night and was very hard to calm which I can only attribute to her teeth but otherwise seems to be handling it quite well.
- Her birthday party was a blast! We had a pink and green theme with animals, cupcakes for the guests and a giant one for Kiera! She had so much fun opening the gifts, playing with everyone and tasting her first cupcake.
More pics to add!
