1 Year Old

Adelaide Grace is 1 year old! 

I cannot believe how much she has grown this past year, and it has been fun looking back on old posts and seeing how little she used to be. My baby is now 1 and is a sweet, sassy, silly, sensitive, social little girl!

Accomplishments: Addie took her first steps this month (!!!), but has yet to actually start walking. She is a determined little girl and likes to do things are her own pace, so I am trying not to push her to walk as I know that when she is confident and ready she will do it. It is very exciting though when she does decide that she wants to take steps all by herself! She climbs up the stairs very quickly and now goes down by herself too, although we are always next to her to make sure she doesn't get too courageous and try to step down instead of scoot (yes, this happened...) Addie got 4 more teeth this month - the 4 top middle ones. It was rather funny as the side ones came in before her 2 middle so for a while there she looked like a vampire baby!

Foods She Liked/Didn't Like:  Still has her favorites, and now is getting more picky with what she will and won't eat. Still pretty good about eating what is in front of her and has yet to learn the art of chewing and swallowing before stuffing more food in :)
Discoveries: Adelaide's new trick is dancing! Whenever she hears music she'll start shrugging her shoulders and bobbing her head. It is really cute! This month Addie learned how to climb. One day she climbed into my lap as I was sitting on the floor and then quickly went from my lap and got herself up on a coffee table that I was next to. Now she wants to climb up on everything: the dishwasher, couches, out of the swimming pool and onto the lounge chairs, all over Mom and Dad, etc. She is a smart little girl and always closely watches what we are doing. One night Alex put a dolphin squirt toy into a cup and repeated this a couple of times. Addie copied him and has remembered this, so every time we show her the dolphin she looks for and grabs the cup and puts the dolphin right into it! And speaking of bathtime, she also discovered that if she puts her face right down into her bath water it is a much quicker and more efficient way to attempt to drink it. Gross.
Likes and Dislikes:  Addie loves playing with her Daddy when he gets home from work and their favorite game right now is sitting on opposites ends of the room and Alex hides and then pops out and come crawling really fast towards her - this has Addie roaring in laughter! Addie loves tagging along on errands as she can people-watch and wave. Her favorite is when we go to Sam's Club or Costco as she gets to eat samples too. Her favorite toys right now are a dump truck that she pushes around everywhere (she even makes a "vroom, vroom" sound while doing this!), and a baby doll that she smothers with hugs and kisses. She does not like wearing a bib or getting her face wiped off after dinner, but unfortunately this cannot be avoided as she is one messy girl during mealtimes and wears more food than she eats.
Memories: Splash Cove and sitting in the wave pool, Addie sitting on my stomach and tickling her while we both laugh, when she would do crawling laps during bathtime, laughing every time we play with the Jack-in-the-Box, when she giggles and talks during car rides, 1st Father's Day, going on walks after dinner when the temperature is perfect, blowing tummy raspberries after bathtime, playing "scoop &dump" with water outside (mostly dumping the water on herself), going a walk and seeing a rabbit.