Abby you are ONE today!! It is crazy and hard to believe that a year ago we met eyes for the first time! You are such a fun, go go go baby! Words I would use to describe you are - curious, beautiful, determined, playful, silly, clingy, opinionated, tender, loving, and climber. Abby you are a great gift from God full of love and kindness to give to the world.
I missed your 11 month update because life has been so so so busy! Your Nana and Papa arrived on Sept 4th and then we had your sister's 4th birthday and then traveled the island! It has been a busy but wonderful couple of months! You've fully mastered walking and have moved on to trying to climb up on everything you can. You can get into the black bucket chair, on Autumns lower bunk and stand on all toys and boxes under 12 inches tall! Your motivation seems to be for fun, not purely determination - I'll watch you walk into Autumn's room, stand on her new turtle stool, get down and walk out amused. You have quite the sense of humor - you will toy with us intentionally pretending to feed us food and pulling back just before it reaches our mouth and chuckle! It is so cute! You still enjoy blowing raspberries and have just learned to blow kisses. It took a couple weeks of being a cling on before you figured out that playing and cuddling with Nana and Papa was pretty great! You'd even go knock on Nana's door to let her know you wanted to play. You enjoyed shoulder rides from papa and tapping on Nana's Ipad. By the time Nana left you were even willing to let me hand you to her while I stayed in the room - a miracle!!!
We had a lovely first birthday for you on the 22th of Sept so Papa could be here for it. Many friends showed up and made it a very special celebration - you were thoroughly spoiled, got to eat cake and enjoyed cruising around with everyone here! You had a wonderful demeanor for the entire party and never seemed overwhelmed. It was really a lot of fun!
You seem to change a little everyday - it is amazing to watch! You are way into container play and love anything that holds things - you've enjoyed pulling the tupperware of bottle parts out of the cupboard and hauling it all over for days. You still enjoy pushing things and now pulling your little wagon. You take good care of your babies giving them hugs, kisses and bottles. You do pretty well out and about, but it is getting hard to entertain you for meals or shopping. Most of the time you end up under my arm 'helping' me push the cart! You have strong opinions and make sure your needs, wants and desires are known to us. You shake your head yes and pull back for no, point and shout, sign more, all done and milk. It sounds like you say mama, dada and Awe (for Autumn) - but it isn't consistent.
Sleep is about the same - it has been easier for me to just feed you when you wake, you've still never gone through a night without at least 2 feedings. We're all kind of used to it, but should start trying to get a bit longer of a stretch! Although you are up in the night, you usually string together 10-12 hours before completely waking from 8pm to 6-8am. If I didn't have to go to work at 4am, this would be a great schedule!!
Your official Dr Visit stats: Weight 16 lbs 4.8 oz (less than 3rd percentile), Height 28 1/4 inches (18th percentile), Head Circum 17 1/2 inches (27th percentile).
You light up around your sister and other children and enjoy clapping, dancing and watching and copying what the other children are doing! You certainly want to be part of the action!! You love the beach, walking in the sand, feeling it and even eating it... You also love the pool!! A few weeks ago we were at a condo with Nana and Papa and at the pool you let me put the goggles on you and you'd grab my hands and fall into the water over and over - it was so cute!! You like to ride on my stomach like a ski and bob around in the water! At the zoo you enjoy watching the birds, monkeys and other animals. Your eyes are full of curiosity!
Happy 1st Birthday Abby! We love you so so so so much and are so grateful to have you as part of our sweet little family! We look forward to getting to know you more and watching your fun little personality blossom!
XOXO,
Mamma and Dadda
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