ava mae: 12 months

our little bunny is 12 months old.  12 MONTHS!!! i cannot believe its been a whole year since we got to meet this sweet girl.  she has changed our lives, and we seriously are lucky that we got this beautiful baby.

ava is in the 85%ish percentile for both height and weight.  somewhere around 22 lbs and i can't remember how many inches...we JUST had her one year apt last week but i have misplaced the paper where they write down height and weight. bad mom.  she's wearing size 18M clothes and size 4 diapers.

she's eating mostly table foods now, and having about 4-5 1/2 formula/1/2 whole milk bottles a day.  she eats breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a couple of snacks.  some favorites are spaghettios, blueberries, citrus, puffs snacks, yogurt, cheese, and hummus.  she will eat most anything you give her, but she recently has started hating her high chair, so we try to get in and out pretty quick.  she LOVES water--seriously, anytime you give her water she chugs it.  we haven't given her any juice or anything like that yet.  we will wait quite a bit longer before she gets any of that type of stuff.  (i had a few people ask me if she got cake on her birthday--nope!  she will have some at her birthday party, and she had a lick of icing at her 1 year photo shoot, but other than that, no sweets for this girl other than the occasional arrowroot cookie.  mean momma!)

ava is crawling, cruising, and walking with a walker or pushing a chair around.  she is just starting to stand without assistance, but i still think we have a little ways to go before she's doing a whole lot of that.  we are in no rush to have a walker.  :)

she can wave, clap, dance, play peekaboo, and throw fits with the best of them.  we are just now starting to let her watch a little tv before school in the mornings, and she loves the babys first channel.  she likes to dance along with the songs.  she's very interested in everything in the cabinets, specifically taking it all out and throwing it on the floor, and she hasn't met a door yet that she hasn't wanted to open or close.  she LOVES climbing into the fridge and looking around.

i would say she's still quite the mommas girl, especially when she's grumpy or tired, but she lights up for daddy when he's around.  she also does better for him with bedtime--with me, she always puts up a huge fight.

speaking of bedtime, aside from a few off nights here in the last few days, she's been sleeping 7pm-7am with no wake ups.  she has spoiled us, so these past few nights when shots/teething/fever/cough was happening, oliver and i didn't know what to do with ourselves! our poor baby was waking up every two hours.  i am hoping the worst is past us though, and that our good sleeper is back to stay.

ava loves to be tickled, sing the ABCs, to play with laundry (specifically when i am trying to fold it-she likes to UNfold it), and likes to swing.  she hates her high chair, the shower head (this is a recent fear), getting her diaper changed, and momma walking away and leaving her somewhere.

i cannot BELIEVE that we have a one year old.  this year seriously went by so fast.  to all my friends with little babies--cherish every moment.  it FLIES by.


happiest of birthdays to my sweet firstborn.  we love you so so much!

ava mae: 11 months

our big girl is 11 months old! (sob!!) actually, she's 11 months and 10 days old...the bigger she gets, the harder it is to find time to blog.

ava is wearing size 12M-18M clothes, but 18M fits better, and wearing a size 4 diaper.  i don't know what she weighs or her length right now, but we have her 1 year appt soon and they will give us the updates then.  if i had to guess on weight, i would say close to 22-23 lbs?  and she's really tall too!

she is such a busy, active girl. she's been crawling since about 9 months, but now she's LIGHTNING fast and pulling up on everything. she's cruising along furniture and can go from a sit to a squat without help.  she's still not quite standing without help, but i feel like that will come any day now.  she dances anytime there is a good beat, and its so cute to see her bobbing her head along to the music.

she's just recently getting in more teeth.  she only had her bottom two for the longest time, but the tooth fairy opened the flood gates, and literally in the past couple weeks she's gotten in her top tooth on the right, the one next to that, and then also a bottom tooth.  she's cutting them left and right and its crazy how quickly they are all coming in!

she's eating mainly table foods, and she especially enjoys spaghetti-os, strawberries, watermelon, and peas are still a fav.  she eats three solid meals a day with a couple of snacks (puffs, yogurt bites) thrown in.  i am not pumping at work anymore, and she nurses about once a day, sometimes twice, but her main source of milk is formula at this point.  it was a hard transition for me, but i am so happy to not be pumping anymore and so proud that she got mainly breast milk for over 10 months.

she's sleeping pretty well, all things considered.  of course the teething throws things off, but on a  typical night she goes down at about 7PM, sleeps til about 10 and wants another bottle or to nurse, and then sleeps til about 6:30-7am.  on a bad night she's still only up one additional time, which i don't mind.  i usually give her some teething tablets and a bottle/nurse, and she's back asleep in 15-20 minutes.

she can clap, wave, and i am pretty sure her first word was "bye-bye"!!  she kind if mimics you when you say that, but only when she feels like it.  its pretty sporadic, but i am counting that as her first word.  other than that, she says "oh" (not sure if she knows the meaning) BABABABA is a favorite, and she still babbles/screams a lot.

she's very smart and can figure things out quickly. she has a lunchbox toy that she will open and take out her red apple---every.single.time.  she also has a bouncy ball toy which has multiple colored balls, and she always, without fail, picks out the red one.  she loves that color!  she loves to sing songs with momma, and a favorite is the ABCs and itsy bitsy spider.

we love our sweet, active girl and cannot believe she's going to be ONE YEAR in just a few short weeks!