1 Year Old - Sweet Addie Baby

Well, we celebrated baby Adeline's first birthday!  None of us can believe that it's been a year since this sweet girl made her grand appearance on Earth.  She's DEFINITELY a girl worth celebrating and we had fun doing it!  We had a big family birthday party.

We didn't have a major theme, but we decorated with light pink and gold.  I made this banner that highlighted the first year of her life.  It included pictures from when she was born, and then monthly pictures all the way up to her first birthday.

We started with a big family dinner.  During dinner everyone wrote Addie a birthday wish/love note that I'll save for her forever.  The notes were so sweet and a pure testament that Addie is dearly loved by all.

Everyone mingled, ate, and took turns holding and playing with the birthday girl.  We felt so loved by everyone who attended!  Including Adeline's Birth Mommy.  We were delighted that she could make it and that she could help us celebrate this special day.  She holds such a dear place in all of our hearts.  We love her to pieces.

Adeline & her Birth Mommy

After dinner we opened gifts.  Evie was such a good helper during this part.  Addie was spoiled, and spoiled, and spoiled some more!

Then it was time for dessert.  I made Addie her very own cake (which was really a healthy version of banana bread) while the rest of us got homemade cupcakes.

Addie had fun tasting and digging in her cake.

We seriously love this sweet pea more than words can say.  She is such a sweet, sweet baby and her personality is a delight.  She blesses our lives every. single. day!

Here's what she's doing now:

• She makes a clicking sound with her tongue.
• She's almost walking.  She can balance and stand on her own.  She can walk while holding our hands (or even just one hand).  She hasn't yet taken any steps by herself.  If she wasn't such a cautious child, I'm sure she would be all over this.  However, she likes to be careful.  I cannot complain!
• About one week before her birthday she started cutting her molars.  Staying true to her patterns, she's not just breaking one at a time.  She's getting FOUR . . . one on each gum!  Our nights/naps have been rough as her mouth has been hurting her.  She's still working on getting them all up through the gums, so we've probably got another week or so to go before those molars are all the way here. 
• She said her first word . . . at least the first word we can clearly understand.  It's "duck."  Beau was reading an animal book with her and she repeated "duck" as they were reading.  So cute!  She can also say "num num" while eating.  
• She wants to be where everyone is.  She wants to play with Evie all of the time.  If there are other kids around, she wants to be right in the action with them all.
• She is actually waving now . . . you know, to say "hello" or "goodbye."  So cute!  
• She love to "play ball" by rolling a ball back and forth.  
• She definitely uses immature margining (gibberish that sounds like a foreign language).
• Her favorite play place is the bathroom.  She's constantly checking to see if we've left that door open.  If so, she makes a run for it and unrolls the toilet paper as quickly as possible.  And, she'll even splash in the toilet if we've accidentally left the lid up.  Stinker!
• She's a pretty good eater.  She'll try anything, but if she tries something and doesn't really want to eat it, she won't.  She loves anything with GOOD flavor.  She doesn't want bland of anything.  She loves just about anything Mexican, veggies, fruits, snack foods (like crackers, Goldfish, etc.), and Thai/Curry (thank goodness . . . since that is a family staple around here!).
• We switched her over from Formula to Whole Milk.  She LOVES it.  She's seriously drinking us out of house & home.  I think a lot of it comes from the fact that she's teething so intensely right now and drinking from the bottle is much easier and more soothing on her than actually eating.  But, that said . . . I think we're spending more on whole milk than we did on formula.  She seriously loves it!
• She loves to play chase.  We say, "I'm gonna get you," and she crawls as fast as she can away from us.  When we reach her, she busts out into infectious giggles.  
• She started playing peek-a-boo on her own.  She'll cover her face with her blanket and then quickly remove it.  That's when I'll say, "Peek-a-Boo."  She giggles and giggles and then repeats the sequence.  It's so dang cute!

Adeline's Stats at 12 Months:

Weight:  81%tile

Length:  60%tile

Head:  85%tile

Happy first birthday, my sweet, sweet baby girl!