You turned ONE!

Grandma White had a party for you here, and I had one for you in Utah.  I'll get to the details of the parties tomorrow (hopefully).

But for now, here are your One year well baby stats and milestones.

You are 29 inches tall. (40th %) You weigh 20 lbs. 6 oz. (40th %)  And your head is 47.5 cm. (96th %)  She's sloooowly evening things out!

We're having so much fun with you. Here's some words you're saying on a regular basis:
- Uh-oh
- Yeah!
- Mama
- Dada
- Hi
- Nigh night
-Ba (bottle)

I'm not a big sign language mom, but you know 'more'.  (Garrett probably taught you.)

You (sometimes) folds your hands when we pray.  And just like Garrett used to do, you clap and say "Yeah!" when it's over.

When someone walks in the door you get so excited and say over and over, and louder and louder, "Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi! HI!!!"

You're a great eater most of the time.  And you like most meat and most vegetables.

You stand and know how to walk. The walking thing really started in Utah last week. (Video to come.)  But you very much still prefers your 'peg-leg' crawl. (Another video coming soon.)

You also wave, play peek-a-boo.  You tease and irritate your brother, a lot. 

You sleep well.  It's gotten better the past couple of weeks.  We put you to bed at 8PM and we've started giving you a 'sleeping feeding'.  We feed you about 2-3 ounces when you've been asleep for a couple of hours, or just before we go to bed.  You don't wake up, but you sleep-drink.  And then you sleep till about 8AM.  For the longest time we were having 1AM wake ups 3 or 4 times a week and then you'd be up around 6:30 or so then go back to sleep for 2 or 3 hours.  When I would talk about this with our ped, he'd say "You're really pretty lucky."  But now things are MUCH better.

You still take two naps a day.  The first one is for 2 hours and the second about 1.5 hours.

 This last picture is of you licking cake batter off the floor while I was baking. Oops.

I love you little Lulu.

 

Dad's Birthday

I tried to get you to share a birthday with dad, but you wanted your own, so you waited 4 days.

This year for dad's birthday we had your grandparents and some of dad's friends over for dinner.  I did a mustache theme and you looked so cute in your pink and black.

Yesterday, (on his real birthday) we went to dinner and then had cake at Dude-pa and Grandma's.  Dad got new golf clothes and you got a new outfit from Grandma's stash because your clothes got wet.  I had to get a picture of you two and your bright clothes.

in october...

We went to a pumpkin patch.

 I took random sleep pictures because it's one of my favorite times to look at you.

 We had weather out of the 100's so we went on a lunch date.

 Went to a dinner and game night with friends.

We went to visit your new cousin William who was born early.  You never got to see him because you're too young to go in th NICU, but you had a fun week anyway.

 You dressed as sushi for Halloween.

 Garrett took you along trick or treating.  I think he saw it as double candy cause you didn't care much about the goods.

 Had some fun at the splash pad.

 Rode on a carousal.

 Went to a dinosaur museum.

 On our way back to California we stopped in Mesquite to meet up with dad for a couple of days.  He was there for a golf trip.

You did great on the trip, but it's always nice to get home to all our your toys and our own rooms and beds!