One Year Stats

Our little one truly is a little one. We took her to her 12 month well visit on Friday and learned that she is beautiful and healthy and a perfect little girl...despite being just that-little! She is only 28 1/4 inches tall (19th percentile), weighs only 19.8 lbs (25th percentile), and had a head circumference of 18 inches (66th percentile). We can't turn her front facing yet even if we had wanted to. So luckily a lot of her clothes will still work for fall...otherwise we'd have to go get tons of new stuff! Better figure out a way to make her grow...LOL! Not really..she will when she wants, or maybe she'll just always stay tiny. Either way is fine :-) We still love her tons!!!

Birthday Girl!!!

I can't believe she's 1 already!! Oh, did that year go fast! We had a party here at the house for her the weekend before her birthday..Everyone seemed to have fun I think! Kayla was sooo good with everyone, which was somewhat of a shocker since she tends to take a bit to warm up to people. And with everyone here at once, I was not expecting her to like it much, but she was a total ham the whole time pretty much and let most people hold her :-) She loved opening her presents, but was way more interested in the pretty ribbons and tissue paper than the gifts themselves...guess she just needed a roll of ribbon and pack of paper!! LOL! She was a little hesitant with her cupcake, but once I got her into it she started stuffing it in her mouth. She's not one to overly like being messy (such a girl!), so she wasn't a crazy mess by the end. Still, a good time was had by all! On Sunday then, we went with Kyle's family and my parents to the Rainforest Cafe in Woodfield. I wanted to take her somewhere fun for a birthday dinner, and we thought she'd like everything to see and hear there. She enjoyed, except when the thunder and lightening storm would go off...then she'd start crying and want to be held. She hasn't been like that with real storms though yet, so I guess we'll see when the next big storm rolls through! On Tuesday, on her actual birthday, we spent the day at the Zoo with my mom. It was a perfect day for it and Kayla had a great time :-) I couldn't decide what to do for the day, but was glad we picked that. Next year I can't believe she'll be old enough to start telling us what she wants!! Oh how time does fly!

Too much to write...

Since there is soo much that has been going on, I'll post a few blogs all at once :-) Let's start with the 4th of July weekend...It was sooo darn cold for July!! But anyhoos...We decided to go to see Fireworks on Friday night since Kyle had to work early on Sunday and we didn't want to be out late on Saturday night really. We ended up going out to meet my parents in Oakbrook and watch the fireworks from a parking lot near by. We had a lot of fun hanging out and Kayla was even awake for the fireworks!! However, she truly could have cared less. She'd occassionally glance at them, but had entirely more fun watching the traffic and other people around..such a silly girl! Here's an adorable pic from that day!