Abigail is now 1 year old. The milestones that we have reached are too many to recount here. A few of the important ones are too fun to skip

Abby began to walk at 9.5 months! 

Abby has 9 teeth....including a MOLAR coming in. 

I just realized this morning that she can walk backwards! 

Abby loves to climb the stairs, tho just the other day she decided she really likes to walk up the stairs like a big person. So she holds your hand and walks up the stairs, you would think she would stop in between each step to get her balance and go for the next one but nope she just keeps going. 

He vocabulary is really growing. She is not saying many words yet. Her favorite words right now are kitty and Jack. But the amount of words she knows is amazing. You can say let's go upstairs and change your diaper and she runs for the stairs. You can ask her to find your phone that she took from you a few minutes before and she goes and gets the phone. You can tell her to give Jack a hug (or whoever) and she goes over and gives them a hug! By far my favorite! She is starting to learn to give kisses. 

We went to our 1 year visit on friday and all is well. We weighed in at 18.1 lbs. and our height is 29.25 inches. This puts us somewhere in the 5-10 percentile for weight and about 50 percentile for height. As the doctor says, she is growing on her curve. We got 3 shots at our doctors visit. Poor thing. But she bounces back as usual. 

Abby's sleeping habits are, well, for the birds! She is such a busy body that her daytime naps can be hit or miss and nighttime is.....usually a miss. She has been giving Daddy a hard time about putting her to bed but she will usually go to sleep for mommy pretty well. Sadly, she sleeps for a few hours and then its time to get up and move to mom & dad's bed. We have tried a few times to then move her back to her bed but it doesn't always work. I am convinced that if she had a toddler bed and we could lay down with her for a few minutes things would be much better. I just don't think we are ready for a toddler bed just yet. Most nights she sleeps fairly well in our bed. She had even been sleeping through the night once there. She had almost completely stopped eating at night, which was a huge help. But the past 2 nights we have had a bit of regression probably because of the new tooth coming in and the shots. Sooo, we'll see. I hate to hear her cry so the crying it out has not been for me. Everyone is telling me to do it but I just don't know if I can. I might have to move out for 3 days and let Matt do it. 

Here are some pics of Abby and her new toys!  

 Mommy & Daddy got abby a really cool trike for her birthday. We can control it now, but when she is big enough, she can peddle it. 

 Comes complete with a phone! 

 she loves playing in the yard with Jack

 We tried to get her to wear her sunglasses....

 She didn't want anything to do with it 

 until it was her idea

 Hi, mommy! 

 Abby petting Jack

 The two of them were quite tired after a little playtime outside. 

 Jack has finally completely gotten over his fear of Abby. She literally crawls all over him now. 

 This was what she did when we told her to "give jack a hug" 

 is that not the cutest thing ever! 

 she discovered the pictures of herself the other day.

 playing with my new blocks

 "helping" mommy with the thank you cards

 Giving jack another hug

 HEY! That's my bed! 

 guess as long as its soft, it works for Abby

Riding on her new car. Oh, it took her less than 3 days to figure out she can get on and off the thing by herself. She's still a bit to short to get it moving on her own but she knows how to lift her leg over to get on, no problem. 

AMAZING!! :-)