SMILE!

Liberty just started doing this funny face whenever we ask her to SMILE! for the camera - She squints and scrunches her whole face.

From Everyday videos and zoo

1 YEAR OLD!

stats and notes for our babybook...

24 pounds and 11.5 ounces (95%)
32 inches tall (Dr. Z said she measures like a 19 month old) (99%)
Says "up", "mumma", "dada", "blegh" and attempts "apple" (She thinks everything in the fruit bowl is an apple)
WOOFS and MEOWS at every dog/cat she sees (in books or outside) and VROOMS at every car.
Brushing her teeth with water is one of her favorite things to do.
Signs milk/cup, more, all done, swing/outside, diaper change, brush teeth, brush hair
Can point out her hair/head, feet/toes, belly (which she gets wrong and points to her chest everytime!), nose, mouth and ears.
Throws a lot of food on the floor at mealtime.
Loves to find anyone's bellybutton.
Pretty much eats all table food (finishing up the last of the babyfood jars..)
Whole milk now, and this is our last week of a bedtime bottle...sippy cups 100% now.
Loves to dance to the Imagination Movers in Concert show I recorded on the dvr.
2 naps 10-11:30 and 3-4:30.
9 teeth. Her second molar showed up after her birthday party. We never know when she is teething I feel like I'm the only mom that never knows.

From 1 year old photoshoot

Tricks

A kid is 1,000,000 times more fun than having a pet monkey or parrot. I assume. Here is a little video of baby torture as I ask Liberty to do a bunch of her tricks.

From Videos 11 month old

10 months old

She is such a good baby!! There is nothing else to say!! So on to our notes for the baby book:

• Her hair is growing a lot!
• Spits, clears her throat, snorts - if you do it first of course:)
• Waves hi and bye
• 6 teeth!!! 4 popped through in within 1 week!!
• Gives KISSES! (even to her baby doll!)
• Says "MMMmmmm" when eating something yummy
• Continues to signs "more" constantly
• Signs "all done"
• Only wants to eat real finger foods and not baby food.
• Get's slap happy before bedtime and rolls around and wrestles with us and stuffed animals. I have a video of this but you may think my child needs to be sent to the loony bin - she is so wild and cracking herself up.
• Walks with the help of holding our hands - no independent steps yet.
• Hates anything but water in her sippy cup (any solution ideas, leave a comment!)
• 2 naps (1.25 hours long)
• Here are pictures of her in her Wilma the Wildcat onesie! UofA!

From Wilma Wildcat

Walking with Push Wagon + wave

I keep telling myself to make a better video of Liberty's skills with her push wagon, but we haven't gotten around to it. So here is an okay video of her when we were home sick a couple weeks ago. She does a little waving in this video too! She waves about 80% of the time you ask her to.

From January Random (baptism, desert garden, push wagon)

Clapping and Pulling Up

Liberty is 7.5 months old in these videos. Right before Thanksgiving Liberty started clapping! It was the perfect party trick to bring up to our families in Flagstaff:) Her other new trick however (pulling up) was NOT so good to travel with. Sleeping in the pack'n'play went horribly since all she wanted to do was get on her knees, pull up and bounce. Here are two videos showing off her new skills. Please excuse the mommy voice and bizarre outfit she's in. haha.

From 7 month old playtime

From 7 month old playtime