I'm really failing at keeping up with this blog. A part of me thinks I should just start writing letters since that'd be more personal.. but then I hate to lose everything I've written so far! I didn't even write you on your first birthday... that makes me sad.
You are 13 months old today, pretty girl. That makes you seem so much older for some reason. This is the best age so far. Every stage we go through is my favorite at the time though. You learned to walk on May 19th, 2012. We were playing on the living room floor and I kept putting you infront of me and letting go and when you'd walk to me I'd throw you up in the air. I guess you liked it, because you kept doing it... and from then on you were walking! You were just over 10 months old. You were such a tiny thing, so it was funny to see you walking around. You still are, actually. Everyone thinks you're younger than you are. At your first birthday checkup you weighed 19.6 pounds and were 28 inches long. You cannot fit into 12 month clothes. You're 13 months and still wear mostly 9 month clothes and can sometimes fit into 6. You're just a tiny girl!
As for words, you don't say a whole lot, but you jabber ALL the time. If you talk later as much as you jabber now, we're in trouble! ;) you say mama, dada, nana, ow, ball, bella, byebye and nini for night night, and sometimes hi. I'm sure there are more that I'm not thinking of. You just started saying ow today. Whenever you touch us we jump and say "ow" like you're hurting us, so no you do it, too. It's pretty sweet. You're such an ornery little girl, but it's fitting. You always want to stand on my laptop... you do it every chance you get. So I put it under the bed and you stretch your leg as far as you can just so you can touch it with your toes. Or you stick your finger up your nose constantly haha. You're always making us laugh.
You and I are getting ready to move, yay!!! We're moving in with my friend Brittany and her daughter. We're just going to be a few minutes from your grandmas though, so that makes it easier. I'm excited to have a place for all of our stuff... we're a little smushed right now. Uncle Rod and his family moved in recently.. so this isn't working out anymore. Otherwise we would have stayed here for a while longer. Sigh.
We had you in a baby contest this last weekend for the fair in DeKalb. It was just something silly to do, I didn't care if you won or not... until you didn't win ;) that's okay you weren't the only one. And I think it was rigged, haha. You'll probably be in the baby contest for the South Side Fall Festival next month. We've got a busy month coming up. Moving on the 1st, SSFF soon after that, Marcy's wedding after that... and then Fall will be coming and we will go to the pumpkin patch and watch scary movies and trick or treat :) I love having a kid, it makes everything fun again.
Anyway, you're starting to wake up, so I'm going to end this for now. I'll upload pictures when I get a minute. Love you! :)
Mama
