Annie's 12 Month Update

Holy Cannoli, we got a 1 year old folks!  Happy, Happy Birthday Sweets!  Lots of fun stuff happened last month worth blogging about.

This picture took multiple days and hours each day of begging for cooperation! 

Blowing kisses!  She is learning how to do it on command and it is super cute.  We are still working on it but if you ask her to blow kisses, she has been able to do so without me doing it first; same with waving bye-bye.  I love that she is understanding what we tell her, she really seems to be comprehending a lot of words lately and it’s pretty cool when she picks up on one.  She has also learned how to hold her finger up to show you she is one years old when asked how old she is. Although this one is a little more tricky for her to want to do and we get her to do it about 50% of the time. 

One thing I’ve noticed that is so sweet is when she is studying a book or an item and finds something new about that item.  Example, we have a book with flaps that we’ve never opened, one day I opened the flap and her eyebrow rose and she starred like ‘Whoa…I didn’t know this book we read every single day does that.”  Her reaction is always the same; she slightly raises her eyebrows and stares in surprise, completely intrigued and taking it all in.  And then that stinker never forgets her knew found knowledge either, I think all the flaps are torn out of that book now!

One struggle I have never talked about is that for months now this girl just hates getting her diaper changed.  Screams, kicks, cries and fights it so hard!  And there is nothing about this that gives warnings signs to us that something is wrong other than she just flats out hates being pinned down on the changing table.  This has been going on for months now and we just try to get thru a diaper change as fast as possible!  Same goes for the car seat, we’ve tried 3 different seats, made sure the straps aren’t too tight… but doesn’t matter; we’ve ruled everything else out, it’s all about being strapped down, she hates it and screams like mad.  We purposely plan trips in the car around her naps or else it’s her screaming and us with a massive headache.

This month we weaned her off the bottle warmer in preparation for her to switch to cold whole milk, surprisingly it has gone way easier than I expected it too.  We just stopped warming her bottles one weekend and never have turned back.   May have been the easiest transition we’ve had thus far in this whole parenting journey!  Whoo hoo Annie!  {#winning!}

I am beyond happy to made it thru 12 months of these dreadful photo shoots.  Please remind me to never commit to such posts ever again.  I’ll still post on Annie, but don’t count on a monthly post as that stops here!   Way too stressful and not enough time on the weekends to make for picture perfect blog posts.  

Look for Annie’s 1^st birthday party post very soon!  Can’t wait to share!!