One-year-old Jenny

Jenny is such a cutie at one-year-old. At her one year appointment, she measured at the 50th percentile for weight and 88th percentile for height. She has been doing really well with her milestones too. She is saying "mama" and "dada" and I think she has been saying them to the appropriate parent. She has also been saying "T, t, t" (maybe for Tessa though I'm not sure). She'll also say "baba" (maybe for bottle though I'm also not sure).

She has her two bottom teeth now though no opposing top teeth. They are super close to breaking through though so hopefully that will happen soon. Teething has been a bit harder for her than it was for Tessa. She gets fussy and super feverish. She is a really good eater though. She isn't picky about anything and has transitioned to cow's milk easily though she doesn't care for sippy cups much at all and would much rather have her bottle.

We've been working on sleep training with her a bit lately. We started a few months ago and have been just gradually working on it. I think lately we've been making really good progress on it though.

She has been getting around all different ways - crawling normally, crawling monkey style some, cruising, and walking a little. I think I'd even call her a toddler now. She loves trying to walk. She'll take 5-10 steps whenever the mood strikes and then fall. Here you'll see a few different means she uses to get around independently.

She loves the doll shown in the video. It is probably her favorite toy and will hug it excitedly and plays with it all the time. She also loves headbands. She sees Tessa wear them so she has really gotten into them too and will get super excited when she can figure out how to put one on.

One funny quirk about Jenny lately is she loves her shoes. She can pick out her own pair from the mud room and bring them to me to ask me to put them on her. She'll also try to put them on herself. And if you put your shoes on, she gets even more determined to have hers on too. I'm not sure if she just likes her shoes because older people where them and she likes to try to be older or if she just likes going out so she wants to put on her shoes because she wants to go.

She enjoys the water and we've done quite a bit of swimming and playing in the splash pad this summer.

Jenny is such a sweet, loving little girl. At times she seems like a daddy's girl while at other's she seems like a mama's girl. She'll go to dad and want to be played with and cuddled. And then she'll also get super excited when she sees me come home from work too. Mostly she's just a loving sweet, girl to all. I can ask her for kisses and she'll lean in completely open-mouthed and lay a wet one on me. It's so sweet. She is just still such an easy-going, happy little girl and we feel so lucky to have her.