Rebecca is a whole year old, 52 weeks, 365 days old. My baby is a year old, and soon to be a toddler.
The past month she has gone from having a single tooth (or "fang" as we called it) to having 6 teeth. She didn't have any problems or pain with the teeth coming in.
Her hair is continuing to grow. It is continuing to stay light brown. Her birthmark on her head is completely covered and the one of the back of her neck still shows as the hair hasn't grown that long yet.
She is so close to walking, but just won't walk more then 4 or 5 steps with lots of encouragement. She stands up on her own alot. She can stand up, then squat down and stand back up. She loves to push her stroller and push car. She can climb on and off of it and walk around it.
She loves to eat, but she doesn't like milk. She stopped nursing a few days before her birthday, and it's been a struggle to get her to drink enough. We started mixing a little chocolate or strawberry syrup into her milk and she'll drink some then. Mostly she prefers apple or cherry juice diluted. We got her some straw sippy cups that she loves to drink from. It helped her to drink more. Since she has teeth, she can now take bites off of things.
Rebecca loves to be outside. She squeals when we go near the door, and cries if we don't take her outside. She still likes to stand at the front door and look out. She can swing for such a long time, and giggles and smile when the kids push her and tickle her feet. She really enjoyed all the time spent outside at Simeon's baseball games. She likes playing in the dirt and pulling out the grass.
She is such a jabber girl. She has been working on sounds, and will repeat them over and over, mostly in the van. She loves to say momma, dadda, baby, doggie, hi.
Rebecca has shown us this past month how good of a climber she is. She climbs up the boys ladder whenever she can get to it. She climbs on the play table, on the couch if she can step on our leg. She has also learned to get down from things. He favorite thing to climb on is the treadmill. She looks like she's playing "Queen of the treadmill". My mom called her Sweetpea from Popeye and that name fits her perfectly. She's small, quiet (when she's going where she shouldn't be) and climbs where you least expect it.
If the kids take something from her, she will yell at them and start crying until she gets it back and then she's fine. She has also thrown a few tantrums. She'll crawl away, then drop her head to the ground and cry, then look up at you. It's cute-right now. She knows how to get what she wants. We are working on trading, which she is really good at. We play give and take games that she really likes.
She is a book worm who knows how to thumb through books on her own. She loves to look at pictures in book or magazines, and if she gets a pencil or marker-she'll make lines on paper.
She has started laughing more often. Ammon and her will crawl after each other around the table. Rebecca turns back and when she sees him coming, starts laughing and crawls the other way. This can go on for awhile with them going back and forth chasing each other. She also loves peek-a-boo.
She has started to imitate us. She puts hats on her head and necklaces around her neck. She LOVES remotes, so we have an old tv remote and wii remote that are Rebecca's. She can push as many buttons and she feels involved.
I took these pictures the 1st time I took this car out for her. She loved in and spent at least an hour going in and out of it. Her biggest smiles came when she saw dad pulling into the driveway. She was so cute exploring every inch of the car.
She discovered that swimming is alot of fun!! YAY
I love to see her sit like this, with her sweet little toes sticking out behind her.
It's been an amazing year of growth. She'll soon start walking and turn into a toddling little lady, then a runner lady. Then watch out world!!
