Month 12

Favorite foods: turkey, cheese, yogurt, blueberry waffles, pancakes, French fries, crackers, fruit and veggie pouches, black beans, purple hull peas and anything sweet. She loves to drink water.

Favorite toys: stacking rings, Walker, Weebles, drum, necklace, phones and remotes, books and anything that plays or makes music

She can say: dada, Brody (du-dy), hi, bye bye (di-di), this (dis) and water (du-der). very random. She definitely recognizes a lot more than she can say. She's very good about looking or pointing at things when asked.

Likes: singing (especially "bringing home baby bumble bee"), dancing, climbing, walking with support, words of affirmation and clapping

Dislikes: Being made to lay still for diaper or clothes changes, being sleepy, not being held when she wants to be held, when she's trying so hard to figure something out and it's just not working!

• 22lbs and 30in
• 7 teeth
• Size 4 diapers
• Size 12-18m clothes
• Size 3-4 shoe
• Nurses twice a day (morning and night)
• Sleeps 8-7:30 (most nights)

- Second top left tooth broke through in 10/21.
- Sometimes she has nightmares. When those wake her up she has a really hard time falling back asleep. I'm trying not to go in there and if I do, not nursing. I've done a water cup the few times it's happened.
- Puts the phone to her ear to talk.
- Switched to a big girl car seat.
- Started introducing some whole milk. She doesn't care for it.
- Started working on dropping the 4pm feeding.
- Another bottom right tooth broke through on 10/28.
- There are certain foods she will only eat with a fork. (She has to hold the fork.)
- Celebrated her first Halloween with friends at the Carters house. She was a jack-o-lantern. We strolled around the neighborhood for the experience and one house was handing out chick-fil-a nuggets!
- Halloween night was also daylight savings time and she was up several times and, of course, no more extra hour of sleep ;)
- Chatter box
- Rebellious with her attitude, but Super cautions with actions like walking and standing alone.
- "Brody" is starting to sound more like Brody.
- She can redirect her walker by picking it up and moving it to get around things.
- She loves cuddling with pillows.
- She started standing a lot longer and even took one (tiny) step on 11/8.
- Got to spend an entire weekend plying with Macy!
- She hasn't been enjoying bedtime stories ever since we dropped the 4:00 feeding. I think she's just too hungry!
- Loves throwing diapers out of the drawer.
- She has her first really bad behavior/tantrums in a Restaurant.
- I think she's going to be attached to a pillow. It's the only thing she really snuggles with.
- Standing with ease. Can now stand alone from squatting.
- Jabbers all the time!
- First birthday party on 11/14!
- The night and day after her party she pooped like crazy. It was coming out of the neck of her pajamas when I got her out of the crib.
- She now has several dance moves.
- She likes to play hide and seek and chase.
- She learned to blow.
- She threw up for the first time. It was in the car, so I'm thinking it was motion sickness (on a curvy road).
- She LOVES all of her birthday toys!!
- She hugs and "rocks" her baby.
- She knows all the buttons to press to get music started on her toys.
- When she wants to crawl super fast, she puts her head down and just zooms by!
- She loves going into mine and Andrew's closet and hiding behind the hanging clothes.
- Had some pretty tough naps and nights right before her birthday.
- She knows the sequence of things: socks and shoes go on feet, phone goes to the ear and say "hi", and putting things back into a bowl.