12 months

We have a 1 year old!  It is so hard to believe that a year ago we were welcoming our girl into the world.

All about Evin at 12 months old…

Weight:  18 lbs 3 oz at 12 months and 4 days

Length: About 28 ½ inches

Clothes: 9 month and some 12 month

Shoe Size:  2

Diaper Size: 2

Still taking 4 bottles a day of fortified breastmilk.  She’s been taking the full 6 ounces each bottle and typically eats around 8:30, 12:30, 4:30, and 8:30. 

Eats 3 meals of solids a day.  We started getting rid of baby food around 11 months 1 week old.  She started pretty much eating whatever we eat.  I really haven’t found many foods that she won’t eat.  Girlfriend likes food!

A few of her favorites:

Fruit- loves blackberries!

Green beans

Carrots

Loves bread, cereal, puffs

Cheese

STILL no teeth!  Is she ever going to get any?!

Loves to drink water from her sippy with a straw.

Evin had several rough nights sleeping this month.  She will go in spurts where she will sleep great for a week straight and the next week she will wake up several times each night.  She usually goes down for the night around 8:45 and typically wakes up in the morning around 8 or 8:30.

Most days she still takes 2 naps, but sometimes she will only get in 1 long afternoon nap.

Prefers to sleep on her belly.  I always lay her down on her back, but it doesn’t take her long to flip to her belly and stay that way.

Still takes her pacifier to go to sleep and also uses it in the car.  She loves her giraffe wubbanub!

Evin could be a professional army crawler.  She is super speedy at scooting all around.   Loves to be chased around the house while crawling.

Still loves to give kisses!

Seems to have grown out of the hitting phase she went through last month.  I am glad to have outgrown that phase!  Although I know it won’t be long until it is back with the terrible 2’s…

No real words yet, but still likes to “talk” in her own language.

Evin had ANOTHER double ear infection this month.  She had a cold for a few days, and then it developed into an infection.  After she gets her meds, she quickly starts feeling better, but there are always a few miserable days/nights before we get to that point.

Super wiggly during diaper changes.  I have to keep several items handy to give her while changing her, because she quickly tosses them off the side of the changing table and wants something else.

Loves to point. 

On her 11 month birthday she started pulling up on things other than her crib.

Just after turning 11 months Evin used her walker to walk across her room.  She loves to push her baby in her the stroller now.

Had her first sleepover this month with Mums.  Mums had to keep her the next day, and since Mitch and I were both working it just worked out better for Evin to sleep over at her house.  She did great!  It helped Mommy & Daddy that she was asleep for the night when we left.  We didn’t feel like we missed out on anything that way!

Starting to stand and make circles around her play table and cruise around on furniture.

She puts everything in her mouth.  She will scour the floor and find the tiniest speck of something, and automatically put it in her mouth.

Started liking cartoons, especially Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Started exploring the house by herself.  She usually heads off to her room or the extra bathroom.  Occasionally she cries to be rescued if she is in the dark.

She loves to be in her room.  If she goes missing, I can usually find her in there reading books.

Had her LAST synagis shot this month.  Woohoo!  We were told by her pulmonologist that Evin will not qualify for the shot next year, and that she should have the same chances of getting RSV as any other child would.  That is good news!

Attended Lane’s 4^th birthday party.  She had more fun than we thought she would!  She really liked watching the other kids play.

Started throwing mini fits if she doesn’t get her way.  She hasn’t done this often, but she will kick her legs and whine around/cry.

We started the weaning process at 11 months 3 weeks.  I have exclusively pumped, so it was a pretty easy switch for her since she didn't have to get used to a bottle.  We gradually changed from breastmilk to cows milk over a week and a half.  This was wonderful for me because I was able to stop pumping.  Hallelujah! 

4 days shy of turning 1, we had her 1^st birthday party.  It was a fun day of celebrating Evin!

Started waving hi/bye bye 3 days before her 1^st birthday.

Loves to cruise around the coffee table and throw everything off.  This is becoming a favorite activity!

We call her the stealth pooper.  Most of the time she never changes expressions while pooping and sometimes you don’t smell it either.  A while later, you will find a surprise in her diaper.  She is the sneakiest pooper I’ve ever seen!

Loves books!  Favorites are lift-the-flap books and Eric Carle Brown Bear books.

Loves to “dance, dance.”

Loves Beckham & Mia.  Wants to give them kisses, give them pats and chases them around.

I can’t believe I have written 12 of these monthly posts.  This girl changed our lives for the better a year ago and I can’t imagine life without her.

We love you to the moon, Evin Kate!