12 Months

Penny is 1!

And obviously very excited about it!

This kid has ridiculous amounts of personality.

She is now 23 pounds and 29 1/2 inches, 75th percentile.

She has officially been walking for about a week now and is getting pretty good at it.

She is still a giant chatter-box, although she is speaking a different language.  She has said a few words in actual English: "Mama"/"Mom" (all the time), "baby", "oh wow" and "wow wow" (also all the time), "no", and "yummy".

She also loves to clap and will clap along to "If You're Happy and You Know it".

She is a great eater and will eat most things- she LOVES cheese, mac 'n cheese, and desserts.

Penny loves to play with her friends Blake and Noah!  She really loves "Grandma Carolee".  I think going to her house to play with her and the boys is one of her favorite things.

 

Another one of her favorite things is "cooking."  Everyday, she has to get out the pots and pans and all the spices and "cook."

She is a pretty good listener but hates boundaries and being told what she can't do (I don't know WHERE she gets that from).  Her cousin Luke was in his infant carrier in the stroller one day and she climbed up it to see him.

Penny's favorite time of the day is when it is time to get dressed.  If I ask her, "Do you want to get dressed?" she claps her hands.  And if I open up her dresser drawer she charges over to me and then starts going through her clothes until she finds what she wants to wear that day.  Seriously.  So if you ever see her in a questionable outfit, it is because she picked it out.  We figure you're never too young for self-expression.

I don't even know where this year has gone!  I just had a baby!  And now she is walking all over the place and telling me "no"!

Penny is "full of personality" which sometimes is the same thing as "difficult" but overall she is a really good little girl and she just makes us smile all day long.

We love you, Penny!

Stay tuned for the birthday party post.