A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
It has been one year since Chloe entered our life and it is hard to remember what life without her was like. We swear that the day she woke up on her birthday she grew. She is becoming such a wonderful little person and leaving any symptom of a baby behind. She has grown 9.3 inches since she was born and now stands 28.3 inches. She has also gained 11. 4 pounds and weighs in at 17 pounds and 9 ounces. Chloe is small and ranks in the 4% for weight and 24% in height, but is growing up her curve just fine. She received another round of vaccines at her doctors visit and was a little trooper (I remember how that MMR shot hurts). She is also right on track in all her development. She continues to open cabinets and take things out of drawers, she has conversations with us that only she can understand, she is learning how to put things from one container to another, and loves to make her mommy and daddy laugh. Today she put her hand on her face and made a loud noise and we laughed and she kept doing it over and over again. She is also showing her independence and when she wants something...she wants it and has started crying when she doesn't get her way. At one year, her food restrictions all gone and now she can eat anything. So we are working on transitioning from a bottle to sippy cup and from formula to whole milk. She is doing better at eating finger foods and using a spoon/spork. She still eats pureed food, but next week she moves to the one year old classroom at school, where she can't use a bottle and needs to feed herself (I know--alot to demand from a one year old, but they assure me that she'll be fine.) She also will start to transition from taking naps in a crib to a cot and eating lunch in a high chair to eating with her friends at school at a table.
But perhaps the biggest shocker surrounding Chloe's 1st birthday was that we discovered that Chloe could climb stairs.
Yes, she can climb all the way to the top!
The weather has been great and Chloe has enjoyed going outside in our backyard and playing in our new grass. She loves chasing balls and listening to the birds chirping. She loves her ping pong balls as well and loves taking them out of one bucket and putting them into another. She also loves playing with toys in her crib and loves it even more to throw all the toys out of the crib and wait for us to come and give her more toys. She definately keeps us on our toes and guessing what she'll do next.
