1 Year Check-Up

Amelia had her 1 year check-up the week of her birthday. She weighed 23 lbs, 2 oz (80th %) and was 31 inches tall (95th %). Basically, she's the size of your average 18 month old! :) Our little preemie sure grew!

Amelia can snap her fingers (I couldn't even do that until I was 5!), and is walking/running pretty much exclusively now. She can say a few words - mama, dada, go, hiiiiiiiii, eat/um-um - and a bunch of other sort-of words ("na" for no, "ot" for hot, "shhh" for shoe)...those are in addition to her babbling words that we can't figure out what they mean! She rings doorbells, turns lights on and off, and can reach the door knobs but doesn't know what to do with them yet (thank goodness!).

Overall, she's doing really well. Amelia still has the dairy/soy intolerance, so we're giving her rice milk. She still gets some of the Nutramigen formula to make sure she gets enough of the necessary nutrients. The good news is that she can handle SOME dairy and soy in her diet - small doses of yogurt, pudding, and other products that contain dairy and soy seem to not bother her too much. We just try not to give her too many foods that contain dairy and soy each day. Hopefully, she'll outgrow this and will be able to drink regular milk someday.

September Pics

I'm a bad blogger! We've been busy. Since you probably care more about pictures than reading my little blurbs, I've decided to just get to the point. Here are some pics from September, including Babcia & Dziadek's visit over Labor Day, Amelia's 1st birthday, and our 2nd trip to the Zoo.

Playing with pots & pans

In my cute Dora dress

Birthday celebration with Dziadek

On a walk with Babcia and Dziadek

With Daddy, Babcia & Dziadek (& Pooh, of course!)

I'm 1!!!! Blurry pic, but cute.

On her actual 1st birthday...annoyed with another cake!

Reading birthday cards

With Babcia

Playing with my new purse

Walking

The penguins at the Zoo - Amelia HATED them!

MONKEYS!

Posing with Mommy & Babcia

Looking at the elephants

1 Year Adjusted

Today Amelia is 1 year old adjusted. One year ago was my due date. So crazy!

We're in Michigan visiting Alex's family and we're having a party for Amelia today. Not a birthday party (although it is strange that it happens to be her adjusted birthday), more of a debut party. This is Amelia's 1st visit to Michigan and there are a whole bunch of people who haven't met her yet. It should be fun!

I know...I haven't updated with pics like I promised. But I WILL when we get back from MI! :)

Happy Adjusted 1 Year Birthday, Amelia!

Falling behind...

So, I've been busy. Too busy to update this blog with so many fun things! I will work on fixing that this weekend, I promise.

Look for posts about Babcia & Dziadek's visit, our trip to the Zoo, 1st birthday party professional pictures, 1 year professional pictures and Amelia's 1 year check up.

xoxoxo

1 Year Old!!!

Amelia turned 1 year old today. I can't even begin to describe how I feel. How is it possible for time to go by this quickly? On one hand, I am sad that I no longer have a tiny little baby. But on the other hand, I am excited to see everything she will learn and who she will become.

Happy 1st Birthday, Amelia Katarzyna!

1 day old

It's my birthday!


I'm soooooooooo excited!!!



I am 1 year old today.

See, here's my sign.

Mom, I'm missing Dora for these pictures.

What more do you want from me?

Seriously...can I go now?

I refuse to look at you anymore.

Getting cuddles from Babcia.

Eating lunch at Olive Garden - well I ate my own food because they don't serve allergy friendly food. But I LOVED people watching and flirting with the cute waiters! Mommy said the boys were too old for me though.

Birthday cake

With Mommy

With Daddy (& a little over this birthday thing)

Playing with my new purse...mmmm, lipstick!

Stay tuned, loyal readers...I have a feeling I will be doing big things!

Random Pic Time!

Yes, loyal readers, it's that time again - RANDOM PICTURE TIME! Mommy has been busy with work and hasn't had much time to update my blog. So now she's going to dump a bunch of pictures in 1 post...lucky you!

Enjoy the cuteness!

Watching Aunt Kimmy

I love Aunt Kimmy

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bye Aunt Kimmy (mmm, good toe!)!!! At the airport. :(

The AWESOME quilt Julie made me for my 1st birthday!

Cheeeeeeeeese!

Uh oh!

Climbing into the chair

In the chair (see how I used my block wagon as a step stool?)

Ta-da!!!

Watching the annoying -er, I mean awesome- Fresh Beat Band

Sleeping, butt in the air

Another cheese face. The kiddie rocker she's in belonged to me when I was a child. My mom made new padding for it.

Birthday Pics

The fabulous Trisha gave us a link in the last post to some of the pics from Amelia's 1st birthday. To save everyone the effort, I'm posting it here. Be sure to turn the volume up on your computer - there's a song! :) We should have all the pics on CD sometime this week, so check back for that post.

xoxoxo