Jinxyisms

You didn’t think I’d stop at 1 year old did you? We enjoy our Monday photo sessions too much to stop.

Our little geek in training

Dear Lily Bean,

Well we survived your first year. It has been such a wild ride and Daddy and I have loved every minute of it. In a very short 365 days you have gone from a tiny helpless lump of lovable newborness to a fast crawling somewhat independent big girl. You are a true Mommy’s girl and I love it. Daddy called you my BFF the other day and I realized he was right. You love getting kisses from Daddy and I and if you’re in the mood you will give us kisses. You are such a sweet girl.

We are still co-sleeping and loving it. When you take naps (which are usually very short) and when you first go to sleep at night I put you in your pack-n-play which is in our bedroom. When you wake up at night I bring you to our bed and we snuggle all night long. Waking up to your sweet smile is the best thing in the world and I’m in no hurry to change things. It would be nice if you took up a little less of the bed though. I have no idea how or why someone so small can take up so much room. I’m squished between you and Daddy and sometimes I wonder how Daddy doesn’t fall off the side.

We are still nursing champions. It took us a little while to get breastfeeding down to a science but once we did we were good to go and at this point I see no end in sight. Ok, so maybe I do. Right now Daddy says he would think it was a little weird if you were still nursing if you were older then 2, we’ll see how it goes. Nursing is still your main source of food but solids aren’t far behind. You love to feed yourself and do so with zest. I haven’t found a food that you won’t eat. For a while I thought you hated bananas but I think it was just that they were mashed up, once I started giving you bite size chunks of banana you were a happy girl.

You are finally getting a little more hair. Up until this month you had just the hair you were born with, you never really lost any but you didn’t grow any either. I still can’t do anything fun like pig tails or anything but its nice to just look at. It’s such a pretty color too. It’s sort of red, I can’t wait to see what it will look like when it’s longer.

Daddy and I have always known you were perfect but as I’ve stated before your doctor was worried about you. Well we went to your 1 year well child check up the other day and your doctor finally agrees with us. Yay. You are still a tiny pip-squeek of a kiddo and that is fine with us. You weigh 15 lbs 2 oz which puts you in the .14 percentile, you are 26 3/4 inches long and that is 2.7 percentile and your head is 16 3/4 inches around which is 2.38 percentile. Your head is finally on a growth curve and the doctor says that when we go back in a couple of months if it’s still on the curve they can take the small head diagnoses off your chart. That is such great news. At 12th old you are currently wearing mostly 3-6 month size clothes. I really wish clothes were marked using weight or something.

There are so many other things I want to write about so that I remember them when you are all grown up but I don’t know how to put them into words. Like when you think something is cute you sort of duck your head down and smile really big. Or like when your expression melts when you are scared or the one time we hurt your feelings. There are so many other things that I want to write about but words just don’t do them justice. We are trying to take as much video as we can but you love the camera so usually as soon as we start recording something (which isn’t as often as we wish it was) you just want the camera and stop doing what ever it was. I think taking more videos will be my number one New Years resolution.

You are the most shy and sensitive kiddo that we know of. It’s funny but in the 12 months that you have been in our lives I think the longest I’ve been away from you is 45 minutes I think twice, and you were with Daddy during my absence. Daddy and I are really the only ones that get to hold you and when we are around strangers (and sometimes people that you know pretty well but haven’t seen in a little while) you cling onto us like you are sure they murdered someone the night before and you are their next target. All of this is to say that when Daddy and I were talking about this the other day I summed it up perfectly, you are the perfect kid for us and we are the perfect parents for you. We don’t care that your shy and that we can’t leave you with anyone so we can go out by ourselves. We are both very shy so we understand it and hopefully will be able to gently teach you to learn to deal with things.

Some other things to note… You have three very cute teeth. Daddy says you are such a stereotype with that one upper tooth. You have the best laugh. We spend a lot of the day playing and making you laugh. I love it. You are cruising along all the furniture, I’m sure walking is in our very near future. By the way I don’t’ think I’m ready for that just yet.

Happy 1st Birthday Baby Girl!

Love,

Mama

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Festivus or whatever you celebrate.

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I had read that yogurt made a great lunch for babies but it had to be the plain kind. The flavored ones were just candy. So when we were grocery shopping this past Sunday we bought one little container of plain.

I sat Lily in her chair, dished some yogurt into a small bowl and something made me go back for the camera. I set the self-timer and figured I might get a cute look on her face when she tried this new food. Boy was I glad I did. I spooned the first bite in and then prayed that I actually got the shot.

Priceless!

I set the timer again but I assumed the face was a one time thing.

Boy I was wrong.

At this point I was ready to give up on the yogurt but she grabbed the bowl and tried to drink it. I missed this face but let me tell you it was just as good. I gave her a couple of more bites but every time she made the same disgusted face. I figured if I hated something that much I wouldn’t want to eat it so I put the dish in the sink, Lily screamed her little heart out over this however. I gave her some cut up apple and all was right in the world again.

I am so glad we only bought the one container.

I just thought this face was too cute

We went to our office Christmas party on Friday night and had a great time. It was at a nice local restaurant and just about everyone we work with was there including Lily. Who was just an angel, she only got upset once and we nursed for a few minutes but she really just wanted to look around at everyone and check everything out.

The only other woman that works for our company ended up with my name for the gift exchange and let me tell you I’m so happy that she did. She’s a scrapbooker and she took all the letters that I write Lily and the weekly pictures I put on my blog and made it into a beautiful scrapbook. I couldn’t look at it at the party because I didn’t want to cry and smear my makeup. Heck I still can’t hardly look at it without crying but I guess at home that’s acceptable. I told everyone at the party that I didn’t care what they got I got the best gift and I was showing it off to everyone.

Thank you Renda, I will cherish it forever!

After getting Lil dressed this morning I realized I had the perfect opportunity to do a comparative photo.

This was taken on June 27, Lil was 26.5 weeks old.

This was as close as I could get her today. She is too busy to sit still. But look the capris are finally the correct length.

Within seconds she was doing this

and then some of this

and this

Then she decided to inspectagate her presents **

Look you can totally see a upper tooth **

**If you look closely at my monitor in the background you will get a hint at what we did last weekend

Dear Lily,

Oh my goodness girl you are 11 months old today and the light of my life.  We have so much fun together during the day while its just you and me and the rest of the world is at work, I feel a little bad for your Daddy sometimes.  He’s missing so much, but I tell him about it and he sees it for himself when he’s home.  So instead I just enjoy it, you, us.

• You do the traditional crawl now. I haven’t seen a flop in a couple of weeks. You are so fast. It’s funny.
• You get into a sitting position so easily it’s like you’ve always been doing it.
• Of course you are standing up on everything
• You love to play with everyday objects more then anything in the world. I could offer you my lip balm or a rattle and you will take the lip balm every time.
• You wave all the time, it may not be at the “right time” but it makes your Daddy and I so happy that you will do it again and again.
• You still love veggies, especially squash. Almost every night you feed yourself some soft veggie and you love it. I haven’t pureed anything in a couple of weeks now.
• You pet the cats nicely I’d say about 75% of the time. The other 25% is usually very excited taps on them and they don’t love it but for the most part they put up with it and you.
• I swear that your face has changed in the last week or so. Your Daddy doesn’t seem to feel the same way but I’m sure of it.
• We finally had to take the bassinet out of your pack and play. Because we still swaddle you (I keep trying to wean you but your stubborn) I felt ok about having the bassinet until the other day when I walked in and found you standing up holding on to the sides. I nearly had a heart attack and you were “seriously are you surprised? I stand all the time”

Love,
Mama

*****I started this before Lil turned 11 months old on 11/22/09 she just keeps me so busy that I didn’t get it finished til today.

Lil and I were playing on the couch the other day and I snapped some pictures that I thought I should share. I mean it’s sort of mean to keep these to myself.

This is her annoyed face. Kitty’s tail touched her nose so I got the “face”