Kasey's First Birthday

11/28 - Kasey turned 1 year old today

At her Dr appointment they said she is doing great developmentally. She weighs 21.8lbs (61%), 29 1/2 in tall (61%), and her head is 18 inches in circumference (68%). They said that it's normal for breastfed babies to go lower in % at this age, but that her proportions were very good.

How time has flown. She's gone from a little tiny baby to little girl with such personality so quickly. She's walking, eating most foods, babbling lots, and dancing.

She walks all over the place now, not much crawling. Sometimes she just walks circles in the house. Greg says when he's cooking she will walk around the house saying ma ma. She's also trying to climb on everything. Not quite tall enough for most things, but she tries. It's very cute when she climbs in Landon's couch or his chair at Grammy's. You can tell she's proud of herself.

She's still drinking breastmilk. She'll drink about 5 times a day, and I'm still pumping twice a day at work. We have so much going on that we haven't tried cows milk yet. Pediatrician says to try it that 99% of kids outgrow issue with milk protein by the time they are 1 year old. I have a strange feeling that Kasey isn't over it yet. We might try some Soy milk until I'm off work for the holidays. Food wise Kasey loves proteins - chicken, egg, tofu and even some beef. We try to give vegetables first so she gets some, but she doesn't seem to like them as much. She's pretty independent and prefers to feed herself vs being fed with a spoon or fork.

Kasey says Ma Ma, Da Da, Ba and some other sounds when talking. She says Da and Ba for most things. She's not really saying the name when we ask who ma ma and da da are, but she's starting to look at the right person when we ask where ma ma or da da is.

Landon and Kasey are getting along well for the most part. Kasey wants to do everything Landon does and if they are playin g with Kasey's tiys Landon is ok with that. If Kasey wants to play with Landon's trains or Cars we get the "Mommy/Daddy get her I don't want her playing with my trains or Cars"

Kasey loves to dance, sometimes even without music. It's very sweet.

Kasey has decided that she doesn't want anything in her hair. Whatever we put in she takes out - that's why pictures lately she doesn't have her hair done.

For Kasey's Birthday we had a family party at the house. Greg made cupcakes and icing and I decorated them. I made a K & a 1 out of cupcakes; colored the icing, and made butterflies out of melting chips to put on the cupcakes. It was a hit. Landon was a good big brother helping to blow out the candles, helping with presents some (he just started opening her presents), and he helped blow up balloons and decorate for the party as well.

Here are some pictures: For more pictures click here

That night we had the Turners from down the street over to play and eat dinner. When the boys were playing Kasey was in there playing with them which was a little weird. She's supposed to be the baby hanging out with the adults - not so much any more

Kasey's Icing face with Grammy and Gramps

Pops, Aunt Cindy, Aunt Laura, Rachel, Landon, Aunt Jody, Me, Kasey, Uncle Buddy, Greg, Nanny and Grandma

Kasey trying her first chocolate cake - she seemed to like it

Landon's making sure she's doing it correctly

In her1 Bib eating some vegetables

Had to get her picture quick before she took her hair down

We made the cupcakes for Kasey's birthday. She's still not doing dairy so we made them with Soy milk and vegan butter. They tasted great to me. Greg did the baking and icing making, I did the coloring and decorating. A friend of mine from highschool on facebook pointed me to a book that told me how to make these butterflies. They are basically separate wings and antennas that you put together with icing in the middle.

It's hard to read the lettering, but it says Kasey's 1st Birthday.

Here is a close up of the 1