Henry is 1 year old!!

Henry is 1 year old!

He's an angel baby.

His favorite things:

• talking on a play phone
• dancing/singing with Elmo Rocks.
• Wrestling on a bed with Liberty
• Bottles - he doesn't do sippy cups as well as Liberty did at this age.
• Sounds - dog, cow, LION!, panting dog, airplane, car
• Foods - loves beans and tortilla soup (shredded chicken) and stick pretzles
• He really only signs "all done" - he prefers to squawk at us.
• Words - will say mama, dada if you really force him to - but he can totally say water (wawa!) and ball (ba!)
• First steps walking on 12/16 a bit after his birthday.  I write this on new years eve and he's taken 4 steps, stopped and taken 2 more - but then he collapses in a fit of giggles and prefers to be the fastest crawler we know.
• 7 teeth
• WEIGHS - 21.6 pounds LENGTH - 31.5 inches.
• Sleeps 7-7am, naps 9:30-11 and 1:30-3.

This album is video heavy - and they aren't that great and I can't figure out how to only post the best stuff....so for anyone other than Grandma, I'd just watch the first video because it's SUPER SUPER CUTE!

18 months old

Recap of what our very tall 1.5 year old is up to these days...

Weight: 28lbs 2 oz, Height: 35.5 inches according to Dr. (99.9%) we think she's 35 inches (99.6). She is as tall as an average 30 month old. 3T in clothes.
Sleeps 7:45pm-7:30am. New to 1 nap: 12:45-3pm.
Hobbies: Pointing out every airplane, bike rides, coloring and stickers.
Says about 40 words, 12 of which a stranger could recognize.
Still calls all babies "mama". LOL I cannot figure this out. Baby was MY third word.
Has a love of lollypops, popsicles and the ability to DIP anything (in ketchup, ranch, italian)
Is DJ TRAK_TOR's biggest fan. Uncle Andy mixes her custom beats.
REALLY loves her weekly music class with Miss Colleen she calls "teacher".
Favorite movies: Milo & Otis and BABIES
Favorite books lately: "If you give a mouse a cookie..." and all the others in that series and Eric Carle books like "Brown Bear". And Gyo Fujikawa books like Baby Animals.
ELMO IS HER #1
BUTTERFLIES are her #2
BABY DOLLS/STUFFED ANIMALS (like beanie babies) are her #3
Tells me almost every times she goes potty in her diaper...so we are giving early potty training a shot here soon. She's used her potty a few times (by luck I'm sure).
Requests to give Cheetah Girl a cat treat at least 5 times a day.
If you ask her to say Flamingo or Music class it sounds like she says "Nicki Minaj". Go figure.


Video (6 min) of her doing some of her animal sounds and words:
*all the chest thumping is her signing "gorilla"
*when she gets distracted and runs away and asks me to pick her up that is because I asked her to say "Trash truck" and she thinks we need to run outside fast to catch the trash truck like we usually do.
*sweet dancing at 4:50

From Animal Sounds and Words VIDEO

15 months old!

She Runs.
Plays hide and seek - she likes to be the seeker.
She has so many preference. You offer her milk, she shakes her head no, you offer her water she nods her head yes. You get a sippy cup and she shakes her head no, you pick up a different sippy cup with a straw, she shakes her head yes. And then there is the books she'd prefer to be reading...
She knows so many animal sounds and points out so many body parts.
Enjoys panting like a dog.
Best words used all the time: mama, dada, water, up, Elmo
Lots of words in the works: book, ball, cat, milk...
More signs: owie, please, bike, flying (for butterflys, bumblebees, etc)
Uses a plate and (sometimes) utensils now.
Calls all babies "mama" - ?? hahahaha
Likes doing puzzles and finding objects in pictures.
Loves a good dance party.
Into all things girl grooming, including brushing hair, chapstick, deodorant, jewelry, lotion, etc.
Stirs up a mean cup of tea.
Speaks her own gibberish. Especially on her phone (aka calculator).
Sleeps 8pm-8am, naps at 10am and 3pm for 1.5 hours each time.
26.7 pounds - (90%) -
34 inches - (99.8%) - the size of a 2 year old. She'd be the 3rd tallest out of 1,000 girls her age.

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

9 month old checkup

9 months old. Notes for our shrine to Liberty aka baby book:

• 22 pounds 12 ounces
• 30 inches long
• signs "more"
• dances (bobs up and down while standing) to music.
• favorite song: Hot Dog from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• still won't say mama
• responds to "No" (I think it's amazing actually how babies know what No means!)
• wears 12-18 month clothes
• crawls FAST and cruises along all walls/furniture
• walks with push-wagon
• sleeps 7:30-7:30, 2 naps (1.5 hours and 45 min)
• loves books - especially touch-and-feel and lift-the-flap

We love her little personality. She is getting to be a more independent eater - she rips off her bib when she is done, grabs the spoon, only really wants to feed herself finger foods. She's SO EXCITABLE! If you just say "I'm going to get you" she will squeal so loud and start crawling to be chased. She flap her arms and hurries over to you when you ask her "do you want to read this book"?

From Downloads - my

6 months old

This post is a little tardy...but for those of you tracking my beautiful daughter - here are your Dr. apt stats!

Weight: 19 pounds 7.5 ounces (95th percentile)

Height: 28.25 inches (99th percentile!)

No teeth yet.

Sleeping: 7:30pm-8:00am and 2 naps (1.5 hours long)

She got her first cold last week.

Dr. Z said she's measuring like an 11 month old!?!?! Dear God. Liberty is a growing girl - she can sit independently, and has started scooting (inchworm crawl) - and a few times she has gotten up on all fours and rocked back and forth...so crawling is right around the corner for us. I'm excited one minute and sabotaging her the next - stop growing up baby girl! Or at least slow down please, I'm having so much fun with you just the way you are!

Isn't she so so so pretty?

4 months old

Our tiny baby is not so tiny anymore! 16 pounds 1.5 ounces (90th percentile) and 27 inches long (off the charts - 98th percentile). I'm happy to report I accomplished my goal of no more daytime naps in the swing. She is napping and sleeping through the night in her crib in her own room now. The past month she has started grabbing and putting toys in her mouth, has cooing "conversations" - especially with daddy at dinnertime. She sits up (supported) and can put some weight on her legs. She LAUGHS! and her neck and sides are starting to be ticklish. We are getting ready to feed her cereal and her first baby-foods very soon. That will make for a fun blog post! Here is a little of what we've been up to: