Happy Halloween!

My baby is 1!!!

Sophie's first birthday was soo fun! We had a party at the splash pad with family and friends. Unfortunatly it was soooo windy!! I HATE wind more than anything! It kinda put a damper on things, but it was still a good day! She got soo many fun toys and cute clothes. Here is the list of things at 1. And probably the last list I will make for a long time! Who has time to post blogs anyway, my life is nuts!

-can walk if someone holds her hands

-hello where is her hair????

-eats big people food now, loves toast, string cheese, lucky charms, and veggie stick chip things

-says mama and kitty kitty

-blows kisses, still has a great princess wave.

-loves doggies

-loves reading

-loves balls

-hates headbands

-18 lbs, size 3 diapers, 18 month clothes

-getting her molars. yikes!

-loves to play play play

-this just keeps getting better and better!!! love you soph

11 months

11 months. wow is all i have to say!

-says mama more than anything

-loves anything to do with kids

-loves toast with butter, black beans, basically any big people food

-finally doing a real crawl.

-getting teeth # 5 and 6

-saw the beach for the first time, and did great on her first big road trip, despite her terrible ear infection

-getting quite the personality

-she's a monster!!!!!! no not really, she's just in to everything!

-is finally on a schedule! thanks to being in daycare 2 days a week. she actually loves it

-wakes up 5 or 6 times a night. i know right? what the heck. i'm more tired now than when she was a newborn. not sure what this phase is all about.

-still loves to read books.

-likes to stand up next to our coffee table and couch

-18 month clothes, size 3 diapers, weighing somewhere between 17 and 18 lbs.

-i've heard mommies say this all the time and it's true... each stage is more and more fun!!!!

10 months

holy moly. 10 months for real? wow. i love this little girl so much. i was just looking at her today thinking i never would have guessed that the little baby squirming in my belly would be so cute! we love her so much and we love watching her grow everyday.

-still doing the army crawl, but can move at turbo speed.

-getting her top two teeth. not fun

-likes to eat "big girl" food. (human food)

-pulls herself up to standing position on EVERYTHING, makes mommy nervous

-looooooooooves little kids, and her cousins especially

-is a people watcher like mommy

- does a princess wave

-claps her hands while watching Ellen

-loves water and swimming

-we had to lower her crib to the lowest position :(

-put her in a big girl car seat and she loved it! needless to say, mommy will not miss lugging the baby car seat around

-loves to sing and squeal

-loves reading books

-loves to pull items out of containers or dressers and throw the over her shoulder. yup our house is a mess, much to my dismay.

-loves to play with the springy door stopper things.

-loves toys that aren't toys aka pieces of paper, candy rappers, beaded jewelry, you know, all the stuff that babies aren't supposed to play with

-loves to laugh and has the cutest personality!!!

hiking

colors

so i always thought i was crazy, until ashton told me today about the smartest man in the world (literally) who learned this really hard language in 6 days fluently. they asked him how he did it, and he said he learns by colors. that is what i do and everyone thinks i'm wierd! but maybe i'm just the smartest lady in the world jk hahaha:) in college i never really had to study, and i usually scored high in the class. not braggin, just proving my point! anyways, not gonna give away my secret too much :) but basically every word has a color to me because the letters i played with when i was little were certain colors and it just stuck in my brain. so when i'm taking a test i can picture the answer by picturing the color in my head and then i see the word. every word has a color, it's not something i memorize it just is, but when i hear or see a word i see it as a color. EVERY word. my name is orange, ashton is red, and dodge is green for example. i don't know if that makes sense, but it totally works for me. does anyone else do things similar to this to learn? or am i (along with the smartest man in the world) totally nuts?!?!

9 months

-crawls everywhere!

-finally fits into newborn size shoes

-will not eat her bottle and throws a little tantrum sometimes :S

-loves to be thrown up in the air

-size 3 diapers

-still no hair

-sleeps through the night

-always has a "serious" face

-sometimes does an "O" face, and a grandma face.

-weighs 17 lbs., 25% percentile

-loves and i mean LOVES baby einstein

-still loves being outside