1 year stats!

Ashley at a year!

Isaiah had his 1 year checkup and here are his stats... height 30 3/4 in (78%) and weight 20lb 7 oz (15%). Ashley was 30 inches (60%)and 20lb 1 oz (24%) at her one year checkup. Pretty similar in size, but when comparing pictures look so different! Isaiah is growing up so fast, I just want to keep him at this stage forever. He loves to cuddle and is a mama's boy! He opens his mouth really big to give smooches and blows kisses by holding his hand up to his mouth blowing on it. It was fun to see him watch and learn to do it. He loves to roughhouse with Papa and cracks himself up thinking he is so funny! He's now in the little lambs class and loving it. They have a slide with three stairs leading up to it that he goes up and down all day. They eat in little chairs at a small table and he's always the last one to go down for a nap because he's still eating! Sometimes they have to cut him off. He's down to one nap a day, sometimes 2 when I'm home with him for about 2 hours. He's still eating a ton and drinking milk out of a sippy cup with no problem. No more bottles! Pretty soon we'll take away the binkie since all four of his top teeth are now in. We'll see how that goes. He has a blanket that he snuggles with in his crib, so I'm hoping that will help him and he's not depended on it during the day. It's just so hard to make the move because he's sleeping so well. I guess this is where we as parents hold our children back. We think it's going to be such a hard transition so we put it off and they end up adjusting with ease. He's been practicing his walking getting more brave and holding onto one hand. He's taken a few surprise steps on his own, but falls down once he realizes that no one is holding onto him. He has been doing the bear crawl which seems really awkward, but it does get him places a little faster and it's funny to watch! He makes a "funny face" (cheesy smile) when we bring out the camera and loves to have his picture taken. Almost all the his pictures I have to get rid of the "red eye" due to those big blue eyes. Our next camera will have a really good setting to get rid of this before the picture is taken. We're due for one any day now! He also makes a really funny noise to get our attention that sounds like a seal pup. It's really funny and makes us laugh so hard when he gets going. He's learned baby signs, but that doesn't get our attention when we're not looking... so he's developed this sound and repeats faster and faster depending on the urgency. This could be for food he wants a toy and especially the phone or remote when he catches eye of it. He's been sick a few more times than Ashley, mostly low temps and runny noses, but nothing that has kept him down for long! We're having so much fun watching these two grow up to be amazing little people!


"Funny face". This is the smile you get when you bring out the camera. You can see the funny way his teeth came in too!


At the Dr's office. I thought I would keep Isaiah warm by bringing this bathrobe, which ended up being way too small, but it did serve it's purpose! Ashley didn't have an appointment, but she did have to get the chicken pox vaccine. It finally caught up to us that we hadn't vaccinated her for it yet. We got a letter from the county saying she couldn't attend daycare until she received it!