I realize that while I am writing this, I now have a 13.5 month old! Our sweet little girl turn ONE on October 2nd, and I'm a bit behind on updating the blog.
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| Family Picture at one of her birthday festivities. |
We had a few little get togethers for her birthday, with Daniel's family the Sunday before her birthday, on her actually birthday we just had our little family time (which was very nice), and then the following weekend we celebrated with my family. This little girl didn't need much, so from mom and dad she got some shoes, a baby doll, and a bean bag chair. From Grandparents Luke she got a little toy wagon and some nice winter clothes, Grandparents Richens a set of the realistic looking animals that IFA carries, (cow, horse, dog, sheep, pig, rooster, goose, and a monkey because a few days prior to her birthday she learned the sound a monkey makes only by seeing a picture of one once, smart girl), stacking cups and PJs from Adam Jessie and kids, and some USU Aggie gear from Jared and Gabby.
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| My baby the night before she turned one year old! So big, yet still only in 9 month pajamas! |
Those front teeth that were bugging her for so long finally popped through, just a week or so after her birthday, and others were quick to follow! She has six teeth now, her two bottom ones, her two top ones, her left incisor just broke through two days ago, and about a week ago I found a molar had popped through on her left side, which might explain the two or three fussy nights we had leading up to me finding it!
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| Crazy girl was pulling her wagon and didn't know what to do with her blanket, so she was carrying it around in her mouth, problem solver! |
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| Birthday girl enjoying her birthday cupcake! |
As of late McKenna has started saying hi to everything. It is pretty cute. And now she has started saying the names of things twice, for example, where she once said ball, she now says ba ba, not sure why that is.. Hopefully she will get back into saying ball again. She will say "hi mama" "hi dada" "hi mah ma(grandma)" "hi papa (grandpa)" "hi da-dee (baby)" "hi teddy" "hi ba-ba (ball)". She loves to get mom's or dad's phone and talk to grandma or papa. She still loves dogs, or ruff ruffs, and cats, and is starting to say more of the kitty kitty sound.
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| Riding the brrm brrm with Dad |
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| Looking over the fence to say hi to Jake the dog. Hi ruff ruff! |
She loves just about any food you put in front of her..except for pizza, odd huh! What kid doesn't like pizza? Maybe she will acquire a taste for it. This past week I gave her a little bit of my orange to try, and she went nuts! So we have to limit her to one little orange a day so she doesn't get too much vitamin C :) This little girl does not like cows milk though.. so weaning should be kind of interesting and hasn't gone well so far. I've actually resorted to mixing half whole chocolate milk with half regular whole milk, and telling her to drink her chocolate bubbles.. that has helped a little bit, but come nap time she does not want the sippy cup!
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| Sweet girl playing in the leaves. |
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| Looking through the McKenna sized hole in the fence to say hi to Jake. |
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| She loves the slide, and I love the scrunched nosed smile! |
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| I'm a year old! |
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| Tired of all these pictures mom! See ya later! |
She also loves trains! Any time we hear one outside we have to stop what we are doing and listen for it, her eyes get all big and light up and then she echoes with the brrrm brrm noise, which is her choo choo for now :) Because of this, one way that I am able to get her to hold still love enough to get her dressed and do her hair in the morning is by watching Thomas the Train on the PBS kids app on the iPad, so now anytime she see the iPad sitting out it leads to brrm brrm! and wanting to use it.. so I have to keep it up or hidden so that we don't spend too much time with the tech.
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| Halloween dressed up as Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles Flintstone. |
This little girl is full of such spunky personality, she makes us laugh every day with the funny things she does. She has come up with some pretty sweet new dance moves, she'll clap her hands more, sway forward and backward sticking her belly out rather than just side to side, and she is a pro at stomping with her left foot. She is pretty quick on her feet and really steady, but sometimes she forgets to look where she is going, and we do going up the stairs great... but down - this girl just wants to take them like a big big girl, but her legs aren't long enough, so we are trying to work on turning around and going down backwards.
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| Celebrating Daddy's birthday, 26 days after McKenna's. |
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| McKenna bought a car with her birthday money, and she wouldn't even let her dad put it together before she climbed in it. Brrm Brrm! She loves it, and loves to take her babies and teddy for rides in it with her often! |
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| My mom has a picture of me exactly like this, maybe I'm a little older, but she's so darn cute, loves her bath, and look at that hair! |
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| I have a shadow.. who is really good and watching and copying what she sees. She likes to try to put on makeup now, it is pretty cute :) We might have a Diva on our hands! |
It is hard to believe she's only been a part of our lives for 13 months, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
