Your California Party

Grandma White threw you a ferry princess party on your birthday.  It was magical.

 She built an Addie sized table and you loved being about to reach and eat anything you wanted.

 You even ate a hot dog with no hands!

There were even real live butterflies flying around in the tent.

 You're such a beautiful girl and we love you so, so much.

Thanksgiving in Utah

We drove to Utah the day after your Birthday to spend the week of Thanksgiving with my family.  We also had a party for you there, and Grandma White had one here for you on your birthday, but I think I'll save those pictures for another post.

 We went to see the lights at City Creek.

 You got to open gifts 3 different times.

 We had Thanksgiving at Uncle Dave's.

 Great Auntie made this for you.

 Uncle Dave gave you pink Air Jordans.

 We rode the train to see the lights at Christmas Village in Ogden.

 I think you liked it.

 Sometimes I hate to admit how much of a Daddy's girl you really are.

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.