12 Months Old

Happy 1st Birthday Princess! We love you so much. I still can not believe how fast this year has passed. Really it doesn't seem possible that we have been loving, hugging, and kissing you for that long.


Here is what you are up to at 12 months:

• Weight: 21 lbs 13 oz (63 percentile)
• Length: 30 1/4 inches (85 percentile)
  
• Clothes: You are wearing 6-12 months clothes and a couple 12-18 month.
• Shoes: You wear a size 4 shoe (12-18 month shoes). You really like only your Pediped shoes which have flexible soles so you can move easily in them.
• Diapers: Size 4 Pampers or Huggies (We hardly use cloth anymore because you eat so many blueberries that every diaper is dirty and blue!)
• Food: You love, love, love raspberries and blueberries. I think you could live off those alone with milk. You still eat mostly what we eat but haven't had a lot of meat yet. You refuse to eat bananas. For breakfast you usually have pancakes, waffles, or french toast and cereal once in a while. I stopped nursing you in the middle of this month.
• Development: You can crawl fast and love to walk behind your push toys. You almost run sometimes when you are pushing your toys. You know to wave when we say hi or bye. You love to brush your teeth, and it is part of the bedtime routine now. 
• Words: You can now say 5 words, Bye bye, da-da, hi, baby, and blueberry (I swear she said that, she eats them enough to know the proper name!)  
• Sleep: You have kept the same sleeping schedule for so long now that it is just routine. You go to bed at about 7:30 every night and wake up between 6:15 and 6:45 am. You take a 1 to 2 hour nap in the morning and a 45 minute to one hour nap in the afternoon. You wake up standing in your crib now. We now read like 7 books before bed (you love to read so much that we read all day).
• Teeth: No new teeth this month. Still only four.
  
• What I love about you: You are such a sweet little girl and make us smile a million times a day. It seems crazy that you were born one year ago. You have filled our lives with so much joy and happiness. We are crazy about you Chesney. We hope all of your years don't pass this fast because we just aren't ready to let you go yet. We love you soooo much!!

In today's mail you got a recordable book from Grammy and Grampy called All the Ways I Love you. It is so sweet to hear their voices read that story. Grandma and Grandpa got you a baby. It fits you perfect since that is your favorite word. You hold that baby and say baby over and over and over! And your best buddy Allie came over to Grandma and Grandpa's house today to play. I'm sure she is really excited that you called her baby all day.


Love, love, love you to pieces and just love, loving you!

Happy 1st Birthday Peanut!