12 Months Old

Taking these month pictures has been totally worth it!  Here is number twelve!  Svea, here's what you've been up to this past month!

-Svea you can point to your belly button and your head when we ask you to.
-When you want to get a ride in your new car you crawl over, stand and then open the door, climb in and sit down, close the door and pretend you are driving or push the radio buttons.  You'll head bob and wiggle to the music.
-You can say ba-bye, baby, mama, dada, "k" for kitty and you try to say balloon, but it comes out as something that I don't even know how to spell.
-You can stand up in the middle of the floor without any help from furniture or objects.
-You have taken one step, but then the next one you start to fall
-You can quack like a duck, bark like a dog, moo like a cow, and now sometimes imitate an elephant and a monkey sound.

-You are very independent.  You have no problem playing by yourself in the living room, while Mommy watches you from the kitchen while I get lunch or dinner ready.
-You love books and have started to thumb through the pages sometimes pretending to read and sometimes just looking at the pictures.
-You like to crawl onto the bottom shelf of our bookcases in the living room.
-You are eating more solid foods and have no more trouble with throwing up anything new.  New foods that you now eat are avocados, carrots, rice, chicken, potatoes, beans, and cheesy noodles.
-You loved all of your gifts from your birthday. There were quite a few that we thought you may not be "into" until a little later.  a puppy/kitty puzzle that you love to try and do, a crawling tunnel that we thought you might be afraid of is no problem for you, your little car you LOVE, your lunch box full of fake food, you will pretend to eat the food after Mommy does it.
-You got your first tooth this month and then your second one on your birthday!  They are the upper teeth, which surprised us because we can SEE the bottom two teeth right underneath your gums for the past couple of weeks.

-You nurse 4 times a day and eat solids 3 times a day.  You finally took to your sippy cup and drink water from it.
-You sleep a full 12 hours at night and nap for about an hour and a half each day around noon.
-You wear 12 month clothes and a size 3 diaper
-You weight 18 lbs. 11 oz (34%) and are 28 1/2 inches long (31%).  You are a little peanut! 

We had another amazing month of new firsts with you baby!  Thank you for a beautiful year!