Macey Jo at One Year Old

For Macey Jo's party decorations I created a banner with pictures from each month of her life since birth.

It was fun to look at all of these pictures so close to one another and see how she has changed- and not changed! What a delight she is.

Here are several fun things to know about Macey Jo on her 1st birthday:

She walks! She has been taking steps for several weeks, but I called the "official" day of walking December 30th because she walked over half of the kitchen on her own. She is a great walker!

She has 3 teeth. Her third just erupted today on her birthday. Each tooth has erupted on a birthday. Letter P erupted on her 8 month birthday, O on her 10 month birthday and letter G today. With the eruption of G the typical eruption pattern has been thrown off... Her two bottom teeth are turned into each other which is slightly adorable but mostly annoying to her mom the hygienist.

Her hair is getting very long and is really thick in the back. She frequently wears a ponytail on top of her head or two pigtails. Of course she likes to rip them out and then she styles a mohawk.

She loves to eat what the family is eating. She only takes a bottle in the morning when she wakes and at night before bed. Though she only has 3 teeth she eats as though she has 20 of them!

She is a healthy size! Not too big... not too small... just right! She has a well-child checkup this week and we will get the details but I know she is right on track. She now wears mostly 18 month clothes. 

She says "Mama" and "Dada". Grandma said she once said "dog" but I haven't heard it yet. I imagine she will say some form of Creighton or brother soon. 

Her very best friend is her brother. She adores the heck out of him. He fell asleep on our bed tonight and she crawled over to him and was trying to wrestle. They have a lot of fun together. What a special and sweet thing it is. Her eyes literally sparkle when she sees him in the morning.

Second to big brother is grandpa. He spoils her and will always hold her when she wants to be held. But it is adorable how she snuggles in to him.

She has a cute smile and scrunches her nose and eyes, I call it her pirate-smile. 

Her hair keeps getting lighter and lighter and is almost blonde now. Her eyes are a beautiful blue and many people compliment them.

Her laugh is loud.

She has a "poker face" and can be difficult to make giggle (unless you are Creighton). She does not like strangers and stares them down.

Until recently her favorite toys were anything Creighton was playing with. But now with Christmas and her birthday over, she has several of her own toys she loves: Ariel car, Cookie Monster kitchen-set, and the bracelets from her vanity. She also likes to chew on the heads of all of her Fisher-Price Little People Disney Princesses. (They are short and round and fit perfect in her hand!)

She loves to play in the dog water dish... Sunday I found her literally sitting in the dish and splashing as though it were her own personal bath tub. It was so funny I couldn't be mad one bit.

She LOVES the bath!! As soon as the water starts to run she lifts a leg over the side of the tub trying to dive in.

She loves her pacifier and I am not going to try to wean her off of it anytime soon.
She is a poor sleeper as of the past few months. She naps only 1-2x a day and hardly more than 30 minutes at a time. If she slept through the night two nights in a row I can count on her being up the entire next night. She is always sure she will miss something fun. She must have gotten the daddy sleep-gene. Not sure how she is so active on so little sleep.

What a wonderful time this last year has been as we have added our beautiful babe to the family.

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