Twelve Months - ONE Year Old! - August 2011

Height: 29 and a half inches ( 62nd percentile)

Weight: 21 pounds, 3 ounces (50th percentile)

Sleeping patterns: You dropped your morning nap (much to my dismay) and took one afternoon nap that was 2-3 hours long.

New foods you liked: Pancakes, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, cream cheese.  You also stopped nursing the week of your birthday and switched to whole milk only.

Accomplishments: You stood up from sitting on the floor (without pulling up on furniture) on August 16th.  You got your fifth tooth on August 21st - your lower left lateral incisor.

Your favorites: You loved your "puppy" which was a stuffed dalmation that Zuri gave you as a Christmas present.  You sleep with it every night.  You also had a special blanket that you could never live without.  Actually, there were three different ones, but they all were made of the same type of soft, fuzzy material.  You always had one when you took a nap or went to bed.

Your favorite babysitters were your grandmothers.  And they loved watching you!



Your BIRTHDAY!!!

We celebrated your first birthday at our house with family.  Mommy, Daddy, Grams, Pops, Nana, Grandpa, Uncle Caleb, Aunt Jenn, Jordan, Alex, Tatum, Uncle Jacob, Aunt Jess, Jase, Uncle Drew, and Uncle Sam were ALL there!  You got TONS of gifts including a musical play tea set, cars, blocks, a new baby doll, puzzles, refrigerator magnet toys, a stuffed shark, bath toys, clothes, and a play stroller.

Eleven Months Old - July 2011

Height: 28 and 3/4 inches (60th percentile)

Weight: 20 pounds (50th percentile)

Eating habits: You had a love/hate relationship with cottage cheese.  Sometimes you really liked it and sometimes you refused to eat it.  I also started weaning you this month.  Your regular meals were breastmilk (nursing) each morning, formula at lunch, and whole milk at dinner.

New foods you liked: You liked more "grown-up" foods, especially sweet potato fries.

Accomplishments: You were very good at standing and sitting with help from the furniture.  You also started walking behind a toy stroller near your birthday.  You were good at playing catch with a ball and at following simple directions.  You were learning to obey very well!

Baby babbles: You learned to sign "more" and "all done" and said "hi," "done," "thank you," "Pops," "ball," and "up."  You also liked to make barking noises at dogs.

Ten Months Old - June 2011

Height: 28 inches (50th percentile)

Weight: 19.5 pounds (50th percentile)

Sleeping patterns: With me home from school for the summer you were able to sleep from 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. and take two naps each day (11-1 and 3-5).

Eating habits: You were eating mostly table foods by this time.

New foods you liked: Carrots - they finally stopped making you sick!  You also started drinking whole milk more often.

Accomplishments: You got your third and fourth tooth (top center teeth) on June 4th and June 24th.  You also cruised on the furniture on June 16th for the first time.  (After that you did it all the time!)  You waved goodbye to Great-Grandma Dorothy on June 21st - that was your first time to do that!  You clapped for the first time on June 22nd.

Places you went: We went swimming with Kristen & Ila Marangoni almost every week.  You LOVED the water!  We also started going to story time at the library and went to the zoo with Grams, Pops, Jordan, Alex, and Tatum.

New friends: Ila Marangoni - she is 7 months younger than you and super cute.

Baby babbles: "puppy," "pretty," (which sounded more like "prepre") "daddy," "bye-bye."  You also learned to sign 'please' and wave.  You babbled all the time and it was really cute!

At the zoo with your cousins

Helping Nana with the dishes

Zuri Dar, Ila Marangoni, Cole Park, Bentley Krebs, and YOU!

Nine Months Old - May 2011

Height: 27 inches (30th percentile)

Weight: 18 pounds, 2 ounces (40th percentile)

Sleeping patterns: going to bed earlier (7:30)

New foods you liked: beans, bit-sized pieces of fruit, vegetables, and bread.  You liked to feed yourself!  You also started a little bit of whole milk this month in your cereal.

Accomplishments: Crawled on May 12th, pulled up to a standing position on May 23rd.  You also quit using a bottle and took your milk from a sippy cup exclusively.

Baby babbles: You said your first word "BOO!" on May 23rd!  You loved to say this while playing peek-a-boo.

Mother's Day