My sister Rachel bought me a calendar for Genevieve's first year. I was so great about writing down little observations, and at the end of the month I would fill in things she was learning, doing, saying, her sleeping and eating patterns, and her favorite toys. I made a lot of entries until Genevieve was close to one year. I have a few entries for January, but the whole month of February is blank! I added a few in March, but I did not make note of her development at the ends of the months. I thought I'd make a few blog posts about what's going on with my little monkey. I'm going to try to come up with 101 observations, but we'll see how that goes!
Since her calendar entries are written to Genevieve, I'm going to follow the same pattern here.
1. You wake up happy and ready to go every morning unless, for some odd reason, Mommy has to wake you up. That is very rare!
2. You have 11 teeth and are working on your 12th, your top, left molar. I thought you were getting your eye teeth, but I'm not so sure now.
3. You love to dance! Whenever you hear music, you have to move your body in some way (even in the checkout line at Wal-Mart). You bounce up and down as if you are doing mini squats. You shuffle your feet. You occasionally clap your hands. Mama and Dada love every second of it!
4. Daddy showed you how to make your stuffed animals dance, and now you do it on your own. You are a funny kid.
5. You love playing with your baby doll. You put her in her stroller. You give her her bottle, and make drinking sound effects, and you carry her around. Sometimes, you hug and kiss her, and once you gave her to me to nurse. That was hilarious!
6. You are a good eater. Right now you love broccoli, green beans, peas, and bananas. You will tolerate a few bites of sweet potatoes, but you are rather sick of them. You like apples, but they are not your favorite.
7. I think you have issues with the texture of foods. You will not eat eggs. I've made them fried, and I've scrambled them. At least you tried them, but you usually spit them right back out. You also won't eat pancakes, and I don't think it's because they are gluten free. You did at least swallow one piece.
8. Going in your jogging stroller with Mom and Dad at night is one of your favorite activities. You talk and make animal noises throughout the ride. You love it when we give you the water bottle. You wrap your legs around it, take drinks, and play with the spout - open, close, open, close.
9. You are obsessed with animals right now! You only want to read books with animals in it, and you make lots of animal sounds.
10. You know the sounds for elephant (complete with raising your hand like an elephant's trunk compliments of Daddy), monkey, dog, kitty, lion, tiger, and cow. You can also identify these animals in books and in real life.
11. You are a good napper, thank the Lord. We change your diaper and put your sleep sack on. You pick out a story, and Mama reads it to you in the glider rocker. Then you put the book back on your shelf like a good helper, turn out your light, shut your door, turn your white noise on, and nurse to sleep. Mama lays you down in your crib, where you'll sleep for an hour and a half.
12. We do the same routine for bedtime, but we brush your teeth and kiss Daddy good night before reading a story. We also skip the sleep sack since you have jammies on.
13. You are pretty good at church. You like to shake and sometimes tear the song sheet. You stand on the seats and look at the people behind us. Usually people comment on how entertaining you were to them during mass. You sometimes dance to the music, and you've just now started trying to escape by walking away. You are mostly content to let me hold you when we stand up.
14. You have figured out how to make the water come out of the water cooler. The first time you did it, you were very surprised. I had you help me clean up the water that was all over the floor.
15. Now that you know how the water cooler works, you like to bring your cups there and try to fill them. Mama usually helps you.
16. You prefer to drink from cups or Mommy or Daddy's water bottles. You are not so great at drinking from cups because you get in too big of a hurry, making the water pour all down your front.
17. You are always constipated. I wish you would have normal poops, but they always look like big rabbit poops.
18. When Daddy comes home from work, you get so excited. As soon as your hear the beeps from the alarm, you say, "Dada". Then you stop whatever you are doing and walk to greet him. You make him feel ten feet tall, and you make mama's heart melt when the two of you hug.
19. You are testing things out right now. You throw things on the ground, say "uh oh" and then look at Daddy or me. You hit your fork on your high chair tray or plate. You spill your water on the ground or on your high chair tray. You pull on electrical cords and steal our phones. Testing, testing, testing our reactions (and our patience at times).
20. You wave and say "hi". You also just started saying "Mama", and you use it quite frequently. You say Dada, uh oh, ow, oh, u(p), down, and it sounded like you said thank you yesterday.
21. You make signs for more, all done, bath, please (and you've figured out this gets you what you want most of the time), eat, and milk.
22. You know how to kick things, but you're not very good at it. Sometimes you end up missing entirely or just stepping on the object you were trying to kick.
23. You just learned how to spin around. When Mommy says "spin", you will do it.
24. Mommy taught you how to wash your hands. You rub them together quite nicely, and then Mommy helps you get the tops.
25. You have your Mommy's hair. We aren't sure the color, but the texture is all mine. You have a few curls in the back, which we think are adorable. As for the color, sometimes it looks golden. Other times it looks brown or reddish. You have blond eyebrows though. Hmmmmm....
When I can, I will add another 25 things. It might be awhile, but I'm sure I can think of them!
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