Z's Twelfth Month!

Happy One Year to Zara Mouse !!
We made it through with our little cutie
& she is something else.
It may have been hard, but we loved this year.
She is like a parade- leaves such a mess, but she's so fun! (regina, anyone?)

Zara saw Dr. Hawley for her well visit. She HATED laying down to be examined like she never has before. oh my word. & when they gave her shots, she screamed like the world was ending.
It's time for her to stop having a bottle and only use sippy cups.
& she can have whole milk now.
She weighs 22 pounds (in the 80th percentile for weight. whoa.)
& she is 29.5 inches tall.
Wearing mostly 6-12 month clothes. Some smaller sizes & some larger sizes work too.
Size 4 diapers.

Z has been paying more attention to books. I love when she brings one to me so she can sit in my lap to read::

Her favorite place to sit and play::

She can demolish an apple. & she HATES when I peel it. I mean, she freaks out. & when I don't peel it, she spits out every little bit of the skin. apples man::

SLEEP:
Zara goes to bed SO late. I am a little embarrassed, so I won't tell you when ;)
Before bed, she does this silly thing where she seems so ready to fall asleep. I take her all the way up to her room and she starts crying so we try again later.  If she is not in daycare and takes one long nap in the middle of the day. Sometimes she breaks it up into two naps.
On daycare days, she wakes up at about 7-7:30 and has a nap there from 12-2 and then an hour nap with me around 4pm.
She wakes us up a few times at night because she lost her paci or needs her blanket. Usually, she wakes up between 4am and 6am for a little bit of milk. I wish this would stop.

EAT::

Zara is an excellent eater. That's really nothing new. We offer her 3 meals/day and snacks. Of course, a lot of times she just plays with her food. She has favorites, such as: toast, toast with avocado, eggs, string cheese, Trader Joe's dried fruit bars and their mini quiches, quesadilla, rice, beans, yogurt, yogurt drops, french fries, baguette, grapes, apples, bananas, blueberries, noodles with pesto or butter or tomato sauce, crackers. & this is bad, but she will not let me have one piece of chocolate from my advent calendar. Time to hide them.
She had the last of the breast milk and this month we supplemented with formula quite a bit. Now, she is allowed to have whole milk instead but we will still keep some formula on hand for a couple more weeks before bedtime. 

Don't put hats on me::

Don't look at me. haha.::

How much longer will I be able to take her out to eat? I hope I always can because it is one of my favorite things to do::

We bought one of these puppies & did not even work. We exchanged the broken dog but the new one fell apart so fast. Now we turn it on sometimes and laugh about how creepy it is.

She holds my hand in the car::

She loves to splash::

We adore the rare times she falls asleep on us::

I am going to make her like kale::

 She hasn't quite mastered the straw. She always sucks up too much water::

NEW:

-Zara can walk! She started to walk earlier in the month but she is doing so well now. She almost has a run going.

-She still loves her paci!

-My favorite change is her understanding what we are saying or asking. I noticed she really picked up a lot more this month. We can ask her to bring specific toys or books to us and she will go into another room and find it and bring it to us. 

 - She has found her pointer finger and loves to point at what she wants or needs or something she finds interesting.

-Z still loves her music- and to sing and dance. Dancing is mostly waving her hands around or bouncing or a head bop. She even goes into this head banging thing.

- She clicks her tongue for dogs and pats her leg or a chair for the cat.

- Z always tries to put her paci in our mouth. It is one of our little games now. She will even try to give it to the cat.

- Z has been congested and sick on and off all month. She had an ear infection about 4 weeks ago but now is constantly congested. We started using a humidifier every night and it has helped so much. Unfortunately, we have to wipe her nose all the time. She has a major problem with that!

- She will hold our hand while she walks. Melt. My. Heart.

-Sometimes she leans against a wall and bangs her head. why oh why?

-Words: Mama, Papa, Mil (for milk) and Hello.

- She shakes her head back and forth and she loves it when we laugh at that!

-The Buddha belly she gets.. it freaks me out!

-She can play all by herself for a while. Sometimes she doesn't even want me to play with her. She can be fine doing her own thing. & then sometimes it's "mom, if you aren't holding me, even if you go to the bathroom, I will scream my head off." yikes.

-Z likes to facetime Papa. So cute.

-Z can fake cry like a champ. 

The reason Mama is scared to put the mirror up::

This is not the best photo of it, but she was doing her funny, scrunched face. It is a hilarious::

Jonas is so happy not to have to hold her up anymore for these photos. I am glad that I won't do these updates anymore- they take forever (still updates, just not this amount of detail)::

Happy 1st Birthday to our favorite girl!

We love you so.