officially one year old!

man, this year flew by!

well, abby is officially a year old! such a big girl.  :)

so not much new is going on since i last updated.  she is pretty much completely off formula now, so that's good! we have a little bit left, so we will use it up in her cereal and bottles but once that's gone, we're completely on whole milk. so much cheaper!

we are working on weaning her from the bottle but that is not going as well as i had hoped!  she does drink from a sippy cup but doesn't really understand how to drink from it on her own, she doesn't understand how to tip it up to get the liquid.  and she gets frustrated and then just won't drink.  so i'm still giving her milk in the bottle but i do give her water in the sippy cup.

i talked to the pediatrician's office and they said that it's ok if she is still on the bottle. i got nervous b/c dr graham kept saying she had to be off by twelve months and i just didn't see it happening!! so i think i'll revisit taking the bottle away in a few weeks and see how it goes.   the nurse mentioned being off by 18 months and that is what the AAP website says too, so we'll go with that. hopefully we can get her off the day bottles sooner though. :)

she's not walking yet, still doing her crab walking in the playpen and on furniture. her new thing is to go up to you and crawl up your legs so you can pick her up but she doesn't say UP yet.   she is making a wide variety of sounds so i'm betting that a word is going to come soon.  she says something that sounds really similar to TICKLE and maria insists that she says 'hi ghingis' but i haven't heard that yet. no mama at this time!!! maybe soon.

she got scared when everyone sang happy birthday to her.  she cried, poor baby. i think the clapping was too loud and it frightened her!

she enjoyed her cupcake.  we took the frosting off b/c it was buttercream and it was hard from being in the fridge, and at first she was all dainty but eventually she figured out how to get a hunk off and was shoving it in her mouth. she was up pretty late that night, LOL. 

she even took an afternoon nap the day of the party b/c she was just so tired from being out in the sun and being around so many people!

she got lots of clothes and some new toys, so she will be a highly fashionable baby for the rest of the summer! :)