ONE year old!

At one year old, Avery:

-wears size 6-12 & 12-18 month size clothing & size 3 shoes

-has taken about 6 steps on her own at once. She is fully capable of walking, but she's very cautious! A lot of the time she will be standing or taking steps on her own, and then notice what she is doing and sit down.

-is a picky eater! She doesn't care too much for her veggies & doesn't like textured food. I'm trying to switch her to all table food, but she gags anything up that is textured.

-still has her bottles of formula, but we're making the switch to whole milk now. I'm starting out with an ounce of whole milk mixed with her formula. I'll add another ounce of whole milk each day until the whole bottle is milk.

-has EIGHT teeth!

-is getting longer, wavy hair

-is understanding more of what we're saying. She knows what "no" means, but continues to do whatever she's doing that we don't want her to do (stinker!). She'll look at us and reach for a cord or something else we don't want her to have, and then smile at us knowing that she's not supposed to touch that.

-wants to climb everything

-loves to dance to music & clap

-can wave bye bye

-has full on separation anxiety. She's very shy around people she doesn't know.

-points at everything (so cute!)

-loves talking on the phone. Anytime she sees someone on the phone, she whines for it.


My BABY is ONE! Does that make her a toddler?! Insane.

1st Birthday Planning! *tear*

Well, here we are! I'm planning Avery's 1st birthday party! It's just insane to me. I have some crappy cell phone pictures of some of the projects I've done for her party.

These are the tissue paper centerpieces that will go on all six tables. The colors are bright orange, green, & pink. I still have to wrap the stems in green floral tape.


Here is a close up of what the vase looks like. There is shredded green grass in the vase.


This is an owl tree decoration I made. These are two branches that I found outside and spray painted white. The flower pot has a pink polka dot ribbon (same as the vases) around the top with white buttons on it. I still need to put a floral block in the pot to make the branches stand up and put shredded green grass in it.


Here's a close up of the owls & flowers. They're made out of felt with white button eyes.


These are the inviations I chose:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/61797994/new-adorable-owl-invitations-choose-your

And the favor tags:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/64158626/new-adorable-owl-party-favor-tags

I'm going to ATTEMPT to make owl cake pops and attach the favor tags to them.

My sister in law is making a three tier round cake. We haven't quite decided exactly how we want it to look, so we'll probably just improvise. There will be an owl and a number one on the top though.

I can't believe that my baby's 1st birthday is in 4 days!!! We're having her party this Saturday :)

AH!

I figured "AH!" was an appropriate title for this post. We might be moving soon! We found two houses that we like (in our same town) and we're going for a second look at one of them tomorrow. I knew we were going to move eventually, but now that we found two great houses it's become really real. I'm not one that likes change...at first. When we moved here (PA) from MA two years ago, it was a huge shock to me. It took me quite a while to get used to the fact. We're deciding to move out of our house because the layout of the bedrooms in this house doesn't work for our future plans to expand our family. This house has been our home for 2 years and it's the only home Avery knows. I know it's something that we need to do, so I'm just praying about it. I'm praying that God will show us the right decision to make and that everything will go smoothly! I'll leave you with a couple recent pictures:

Eleven Months Old

At eleven months old Avery:

-wears 6-12 & 12-18 month size clothing
-wears size 3 shoes
-wears size 3 diapers
-has 4 or 5 bottles & 3 meals of food a day. She loves the vegetable rice rusks for a snack
-is starting to feed herself
-still sleeps in our room
-is obsessed with her Choo Choo Soul DVD
-is getting another tooth on the bottom (already has 2 on bottom and 4 on top)
-begs for our food, ESPECIALLY ice cream!
-is starting to take a couple steps here and there
-has become quite the cuddle bug recently

Valentine's Day Pic

First Valentine's Day

A Walk

We took advantage of the nice weather yesterday (60 degrees!) and went for a walk. Avery absolutely loves going for walks. Mama and daddy enjoy it too!

Shopping!

The mall is like Avery's second home. I think she likes shopping as much as her mama does! Here she is trying on sunglasses in Baby Gap (where I could spend my life's savings).