Abigail @ 1 year

 

Oh how time flies! Was it really a whole year ago that God entrusted us with this little girl? And what a sweet and easy baby she’s been!

Abigail adds so much joy to our lives. She has a fun little giggle that makes everyone smile. She’s generally very happy and easygoing. She loves mischief—she’s already discovered toilet paper in the bathroom & cups of water left on the table (anything played with on the floor is fair game for Baby-Zilla!). She especially loves to climb around on pillows or stuffed animals (or her sister’s bed). She also loves peekaboo and hiding from me. She also loves things that make noise, small things she can carry around in her hand, and anything that Andrew’s playing with. Andrew can almost always make her giggle when he’s being silly, and the other day when Andrew wasn’t feeling good, she could almost sense it and kept coming over to put her head down on him.

 

She’s still a great sleeper, generally going down for her nap and bedtime without me even having to rock her and stays asleep all night. She sleeps well when she’s sick or doesn’t feel good, like this past week, when she’s had a horrible cough and some pain from her tooth that’s finally coming in! She naps about 1 1/2 or 2 hours in the morning and then usually she’s a little more difficult to put down in the afternoon, but usually she will nap again about an hour or two. Soon I’ll be pushing that morning nap later so we can combine two naps into one.

She’s nursing only 3 times a day now, and doesn’t have to nurse to go to sleep. Usually the last feeding is shortly after dinner and then she stays up another hour or so. She eats meals very well—usually a jar of baby food at every meal plus some other type of finger food—she loves canned peaches, peas & carrots, all kinds of bread (she was a huge fan of her birthday cinnamon roll & ate the.whole.thing), and pretty much anything she can mash up in her little gums. Although many times she thinks its fun to shove all her food off her high chair onto the floor if she doesn’t want it! She’ll take juice well out of a cup  but I haven’t yet tried milk.

 

She’s pretty close to walking but not quite there, although she definitely gets anywhere she wants to go! She’ll stand by herself for a few seconds but then catapult herself into my lap. She pulls herself onto low chairs or furniture.

 

I had fun taking some pictures with her in her birthday outfit a couple weeks ago. Even though they’re clearly not professional, I was really pleased with these and thought they really showed her personality! I couldn’t pick my favorite! She still always has those middle two fingers in her mouth for comfort.