Megan oh Megan....where did 1 year go? You came into this world just hours after your due date and now you are a walking, "talking," smiling, temper-tantrum throwing toddler. You have brought more to our lives than we could have imagined. You can't get enough of your sister and although she likes to try and play it cool...I think she loves you just the same. You know exactly what you want and you go for it. We are so excited to see what another year will bring for you and our family!!
Sleep:
We finally have done it! You are sleeping through the night and do not have to be rocked to sleep. This is amazing for me!! February 23 we put you to sleep wide awake and let you cry it out...which only took 5-10 minutes. When you woke up during the night, we let you cry until you fell back asleep. Again, that just took a few minutes. I think you sleep better because of it and so do I!! You are now sleeping from about 7:30 - 7:00. When you wake up in the morning you just lay there and talk to yourself until I come get you. You don't whine at all. If/when you wake up in the middle of the night, you put yourself back to sleep. Although I do miss rocking you at times, it sure does make bedtime easy and I really think you sleep better! Naps are also going great. You put yourself to sleep around 12:30 and then wake up by 3:00 usually. You no longer really cry when you first go down, you just talk a little or you don't make a peep.
Feed Me:
Well, this is still a difficult and somewhat stressful thing for me. You just got over the stomach flu that the whole house got and now have been better about eating. You will finally hold your own bottle and actually drink most of it without a distraction, but now it's also time to try to get you to drink out of a sippy cup, uhg! You only eat what you want to eat and sometimes I really don't know what that is. You love fruit/vege pouches but really don't want anything to do with "baby" food. I still have you eating baby oatmeal, but I have to sneak that in with your fruit/vege pouch. You absolutely LOVE yogurt. You will sometimes have cheerios, puffs, and graham crackers. Right now, you love goldfish. You didn't even have a bit of your cupcake on your birthday you stinker!! I have tried putting food from my plait on your tray, but you just play with it a little bit and throw it on the floor. I have a feeling this will continue to be difficult, but hopefully you realize food is good!! In a normal day you have a bottle at 8, 12 and 7 for sure with a smaller bottle around 4 some days. You also have whatever you will eat with each of those bottles. I try to get fruits, veges, and yogurt in in a day, but that doesn't always happen.
Milestones:
2/23/15 - started sleeping all night
2/?/15- got another tooth on the top right
Favorites:
Jade, yogurt, Daddy, reading books...basically the same as last month
Dislikes:
Has started to be a little scared of Duke and isn't a fan of me leaving her places.
Length: 28 1/2"
Weight: 18.5lbs
Clothes: I have finally pretty much moved her into all her 12 month clothes. She still wears some 9 month stuff, but the 9-12 month stuff finally fits and I'm sick of seeing the 6-9 month stuff so I'm retiring a lot of it.
