What I love about you at 12 months... one year... oh my.
Where did the year go? I can't believe you turned one today. I thought that I would be more emotional, but I wasn't. I was just really really happy. You have completely changed my life, my priorities, and my future. You make everyday interesting, new and different. You find ways to make me smile when I don't feel like it and you can make me cry when you cry (Mom, I finally get it now.) I know exactly what you want when you fuss and know exactly what to do to make you happy. You are adventurous, loving, adaptive, funny, smart, and a million other adjectives. You love your routines and I do too. I miss you when I'm not with you. You're the closest thing to a perfect baby I've ever seen.
Here's what else I love about you at 12 months...
- Shortly after you learned to walk, it was almost like you are running at times... slow down little girl!
- Although I miss you, I love when other people babysit you - you are so good for them and they love spending time with you!
- You can make me laugh without even doing anything.
- And I love it when you laugh at me laughing at you.
- I love when you sit in the floor and spin yourself around only using your feet.
- Not only can you now do an indian call, but you can use your finger/hand to go up and down on your mouth while humming.
- Uncle Brandon also taught you have to make a pop sound - you can't make the sound but you sure try!
- At one of our dinner nights at Red Robin, I blew on your spaghetti to cool it. When I put it up to your mouth, you blew on it! Too funny!
- You will try just about anything - food, new toy, anything.
- You love water - pools, baths, fountains. You even cried one night because I just put your feet in the pool and didn't let you swim. I'm sorry!
- One day you pulled out an old roll of christmas wrapping paper. I rolled it out on the floor and you loved walking on it - i think it had to do with how the paper kind of stuck to the bottom of your feet when you walked.
- I brought a big cardboard box home from work and you loved playing in it, and putting balls through the holes.
- Last month you could say "ball". This month we can say "where's the ball?" and you stop what you're doing to find a ball. It's so cute.
- Mamaw really lights up when we go visit her... she always says that you have the cutest little face. :)
- Dad chases you around the house saying "I'm gonna' get you!" - you squeal and take off running!
- I love taking you out shopping because you're a great distraction from boring old grocery shopping.
- You playing in a specific kitchen cabinet - it has small salsa bowls, really small tupperware containers and lids, and small bundt pans that you love to drop and let clang when hitting the ground. You also have a small drawer that has some kid-friendly utensils in it.
- You were not happy when I baby proofed the kitchen cabinets, but I love the peace of mind it gave me.
- You like to put stuff inside containers. You can sit there forever putting a tupperware lid inside of another bowl, dumping it out and doing it all over again. You are so smart.
- You are still a great sleeper, sleeping 7-7 most nights!
- The look on your face and small giggle you give us when we get you out of your crib in the morning is priceless - it really gets my day started off right.
- You love waving and saying "bye-bye".... when people say it, and even when the talking toys say it. You've even started saying it when we put you in your car seat because you know we're leaving somewhere.
- At feeding times, when we say "more?" or "bite?" you open your mouth.
- You've also gotten really good at feeding yourself with your hands.
- I love that the ladies at daycare still comment on how sweet and easy you are - this makes me feel so good about going to work everyday.
- You've started playing on the couch. You love to put all the pillows on, then throw them off. You also love to fall into a pile of pillows. You're also learning how to get on your stomach and get down off the couch.
- You went to church for the first time this month - the daycare teachers said you were great!
- You like to walk around in big open spaces - and don't like to hold our hands when you want to just roam around.
- You also like to look at people from behind glass - when they put their hand on the window you like to follow their hand/fingers with yours.
- You started sleeping with the glow seahorse and even know how to turn it off and on on your own.
- You have the cutest, chubbiest, healthies legs - I love squeezing and tickling them
- You have very specific ticklish spots and I know exactly how to make you laugh.
- You love musical instruments toys like drums, kazoos, flutes, maraccas, and the xylaphone.
- Your first birthday party was amazing. Over 50 people came to wish you a happy birthday, swim, and have fun. Some of your favorite presents are the shopping cart, board books, camera, fire truck, jewelry box, and pot. You loved the cupcakes but didn't really want to get messy in your smash cake... oh well.
- On your birthday, we had a great day. We got attacked by fed the ducks at Big Spring Park, you loved playing in the fountains behind Earlyworks, and had your first kids meal dinner at Red Robin (spaghetti and mandarin oranges).
What a great, wonderful, terrific, magical, special, amazing, and awesome year it's been. I love everything about you and can't wait to see what year two has in store for us!