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...of one whole year!


It's finally here, people!  This munchy face is officially one year old!  Can't believe it.  What a year it has been, too.  Selah has "lived" (meaning stayed for more than one night) in 7 different houses, been on 8 airplanes, had 3 viruses, and no major injuries, praise God!  Well, enough chatting, let's get down to business.

Date: April 21st, 2013
Weight: No idea.  But she feels heavier and bigger!  My growing girl.
Clothing size: 9-12 months.
Feedings per day: 4 nursing, 3 meals, 1 snack.  We aren't doing baby food any more, which means a lot more mess.
We are working on sippy cups with water, juice/water, and milk.  She seems to like the milk the best, actually, but doesn't do too well with it if she's recently nursed.  She's just getting the hang of the tipping and sometimes will accidentally suck from a straw, but really just wants to chew on it.
Naps: By the grace of God, her naps have really taken a turn for the better recently.  She sleeps around 12 hours at night, waking up around 7:30 or 8.  Then she goes back down around 9:30ish and sleeps until around 11:30.  Then back down around 2:15 and wakes up around 4:30 and to bed by 7:30 or so.  It's pretty crazy to think that she's still sleeping about 16 hours a day.  We may be in the midst of or finishing a growth spurt (she's eating a ton), so she may start sleeping less soon... ?
New skills: Pulling up against walls (like not having to grip onto anything).  For real crawling all of the time.  Saying some new sounds/words: today she said "Wowow!" after I said wow to her :) 

Teeth: 8
Favorite things: Being tickled right below her belly button. Her thumb. 
Putting Abram down for a nap: she hangs on the outside of his crib, laughing and dancing while I sing him his sleeping songs.  She loves chicken. Chicken. Chicken. And yogurt. And Mommy: We are working on it, but that girl has been incredibly clingy recently.  

Least favorite thing: Still being laid on her back. Grass:
Apparently

Brother/Sisterness: They are really so sweet to each other and I thank God every day for that. Abram would never hit her or hurt her purposefully ever (knock on wood), although he has been known to take toys from her, or hide ones he doesn't want her to play with.  But whenever she's upset in her high chair in the other room or her car seat where we can't get to her, he always says "It's ok, Selah Bella" over and over to her.  So sweet.  He also often wants her to be put in her crib to play with him.
She loves to follow him around when he's being all crazy and running around and she's started patting his head or whatever she can reach when he's standing near her (sometimes a little too hard, actually). But overall, I feel so blessed by how well they get along right now and am praying that it will continue as they start interacting even more.

A mini birthday celebration
She really liked that cupcake.  We only let her have about a quarter of it.
 I don't know if it was that or the fact that she literally did some major changing over night (she does just seem a lot older today!) but bedtime last night was incredibly epic.  Over 1.5 hours of intense crying and yelling for "Mamama".  We will see if things are different tonight and probably won't have any sweets again for awhile.

She's really kind of an enigma to us at times.  For most of her life, she was so calm and non-reactive, hardly ever crying and sleeping so well (and a lot!)  But recently she's gotten more emotional and more vocal.  There are times when she's pretty happy and excited and times when she gets upset (when she doesn't see me or when she's tired in the evening) but she's still not overly anything - happy or sad.  Her personality is really starting to take shape now and I feel like we are just kind of waiting to see how God has made her.  We really love her so much and it's hard to remember life before she was a part of it.  God has given us two very different kids who are both so amazing in so many ways.  



Daddy and I love you, Sel.  We can't wait to see what plans God has for your life!  Happy birthday, my Sweetness!



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