12 Months!!!!

If I am going to be honest, I think that I have pretty much dreaded seeing Peyton turn one since the day she was born. I just knew that the day she turned one meant my little baby wasn't a baby anymore but I completely disagree now that we are here. Although she is growing and changing by the second, she still seems like my little baby and at times is more needy now than ever before!

We are definitely at the stage where P knows what she wants and isn't very happy if she doesn't get it. She stopped letting me feed her baby food around the time she turned 11 months old and hasn't wanted much to do with me feeding her off of a spoon ever since. I can usually get her to at least let me feed her a little oatmeal at breakfast or some yogurt at lunch but that is only if she also has finger foods that she can pick up and feed herself in between me feeding her with the spoon. She does great drinking out of a sippy cup and loves loves loves to drink water. I have given her 2% milk a few times and even a little juice and but she didn't seem to really like either of them. So far she seems to be a good little eater, eating most foods that I put in front of her, with her favorite being fruit (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, strawberries). She also really likes to eat chicken, sliced cheese, scrambled eggs, and ritz crackers. She likes chocolate just like her mommy and daddy, although she has only had it a few times. Earlier this week Matt was holding Peyton while we were talking to a neighbor and I had just taken a bite out of a chocolate chip cookie when Peyton reached out and grabbed it out of my hand and proceeded to eat the whole thing!! I think that might have been her first real experience with chocolate and she did not hold anything back!

Peyton is sooo close to walking on her own but just hasn't quite mastered it yet. She can walk across the room using a walking toy or walk with someone holding her hand. She has learned to climb onto the couch and the recliner (with a little help) and does this multiple times a day. This seems to be one of her new favorite things. Her vocabulary has expanded a lot in the past few weeks. She's been saying "momma," "dadda," "byebye," "dog," "granddad," "night night," "no no no," and now can also say "baby," "nana," "girl," "P," "one," "go go go" (for ghost), and my favorite "warrrrr" (for War Eagle!). She is super social and is not afraid of strangers, oftentimes reaching out to older men and wanting them to hold her haha. She is still not a big napper, usually napping anywhere from 1-1.5 hours a day and that is usually fairly early in the morning. Although I shouldn't complain because she generally sleeps for a good 12 hours at night.

So far this age is a lot more fun than I expected it to be. I am loving how much she interacts with Matt and I and am amazed at how much she knows. I can already see that this little girl is going to have a love for shoes just like her mommy. If she sees a pair of shoes lying on the floor she will pick them up and try to put them on her feet. It cracks me up to see that she can actually put two and two together and realize that shoes belong on her feet, especially considering the fact that it is rare that she wears them. One of the funniest things to watch is when she pulls her bow out of her hair and then tries to put it back in. She also loves to take my sunglasses off of my face and then try to put them on her face. She is such a mess and we wouldn't have it any other way! We love you P!

12 Month Stats:

Weight: 22 lbs. (75th-90th percentile)

Height: 31 inches (95th percentile)

Head Circumference: 17.5 inches