Miss Thang

Monday I took Vivian to the doctor for her 1 year check up. We were called back by the nurse and I walked ahead and Vivian followed behind me like a little duck with her purse in her hand waving and smiling to everyone as we walked by. She measured in at 31 inches (95th percentile) and weighs 21 lb 9oz. (50th percentile). As the doctor walked in she walked right up to him and handed him her toy and turned around and started talking out loud.  She reached for him when I put her on the table and he just laughed at her confidence. He said most babies fear people they don't see regularly and reach for mommy when someone they don't know tries to touch them. Not my child. She now has 11 teeth. Apparently the average 1 year old has 4-6 teeth. She has quite a mouth full. Her exam went well and he declared her a healthy, happy 1 year old.

Also on Monday she started in her new big girl room at school.  She is no longer in the infant room and in the 12-18 month room. She loves it! She still runs to her old teachers when she sees them and gives them big hugs but loves her new ones too. She now gets to play on the playground twice a day (which before she was inside all day), eats in a chair instead of a highchair and gets one scheduled nap. I was worried about the nap because she has always been allowed to sleep whenever she wanted. She only slept for a total of 1 hour on Monday during the 2 1/2 hour nap time slot. Yesterday however she slept for 2 hours and 20 minutes. I think she figured out she wasn't going to get another cat nap in and needed to sleep as much as she could when she could. This one nap a day and playing outside has also led to her being exhausted by the end of the day.  She is lights out at 7pm until 6am.

She has also started saying a few words: dada, bubbles, bye, hi, ball and do-ge (doggy). For some reason when she talks she curls her lips over her teeth. It's funny but not sure how to fix this problem. Hopefully she just out grows it.

Very proud that she can go down the slide all by herself

Playing in the morning before school

She was not a fan of the parrot at the park

Just another ride around the block