On November 12, 2008 at 4:12 pm Kyrah officially turned 1 year old. I took the day off work and made her egg bread (basically french toast) and eggs (her favorite). Then we played a bit and went up to day care to play with her friends and have a little party up there with her. We basically spent the day playing with all her new cool (older!) toys. I took all the baby type toys and stored them away for the twins and brought out all her new toys that help her develop. She also took her first official step on her birthday. She was on her blue chair and I was on the floor about 2 feet away and she stood up (which she does great now by herself) and took two steps to me. Very exciting. She likes to "walk" with fingers or with her little walker and just in the past few days she has been standing on her one very well so we are hoping she will be walking by herself soon.
This is what I wrote in her journal on her birthday...
My little baby girl is one year old today! One year ago today, November 12th, at 4:12 pm Kyrah Janet came into our lives. Over the past year she has been a wonderful baby and I can not imagine loving someone as much as I love her. So for an update on what she is doing and where she is at. She says Ma Ma and Da Da but won't tell you who I am if you ask her the question. She is cruising along furniture but is scared to let go. She loves to climb on things - especially her little rocking chair. She drinks 2% milk and only takes one bottle right before bed time, although we are going to take that away soon. She still takes a pacifier. I know that will be very hard when we make her give that up. She eats all adult food - no baby food anymore - although that has been for awhile now. She loves to pull up on things. She points with her finger at objects. She is really fast at crawling. She has 3 confirmed teeth - possibly more but it is hard to tell because her top gum does not show when she smiles and she won't let me put my finger in there to feel around. She can throw a ball and likes to put objects in to and out of a bucket or bowl. Kyrah loves to '"tickle" Mom or Dad - which for her is just touching our toes. She knows where a nose is on someone else and can point it out. She likes to play with Broc and likes it when Broc throws her on the bed then jumps on the bed like he is going to jump on her. She like to open cabinets and pull things out of them. She plays peek a boo by covering her eyes and then pulling her hands away. Just recently she has started crawling through Daddy's legs like it is a tunnel. She has also started "dancing" she really likes music and will bounce up and down or if she is sitting down she will hop on her butt like she is dancing. We are working on drinking out of an adult cup and likes to do it when we help her, but she is not that good at drinking. Most of the time the liquid will run back out of her mouth. She is not really a cuddler, I usually only get her to lay her head on my shoulder when she is really tired, but she likes to be picked up, so when she does cuddle up to me I take advantage of it and soak it up. She has started giving kisses which for her is just leaning in to you with her mouth open. She likes to have a blanket when she goes to sleep. She loves the Baby Einstein movies - usually we only watch those when she is in the van now. Before she would watch one at home when she was having her snack. She can stand on her own very well and likes to walk with help.
There are a thousand more things that make Kyrah special, but that is a pretty good list of what she is up to at 1 year old.
2 comments:
What a great post! She is doing so much :)
She's growing up! Kind of sad isn't it? But you'll have two new ones soon :) Oh and just curious about the 2% milk. We were told to do whole milk the first year b/c the extra fat is good for their brain or something like that??
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