Ellie the 12 month/ 1 Year old!!!



Our precious little girl is officially a one year old!!!

Updates on Ellie:

Sleep:
Ellie is still sleeping great overall! She usually sleeps from around 7:30 pm to 7:30 am., and we just started working on dropping her morning nap. She really still seems to need an earlier nap, but if she goes down before 1 pm, I have to wake her to go pick the boys up from school.  And the worst part is that she will then refuse to take another nap! So I decided to try to get her to hold off on her nap until after pick-up, and if I can, she takes a great afternoon nap (about 2-3 hours). 

She still has her paci's, blankies, and all her stuffed friends in bed that she loves! She loves turning on music in her bed, and doing her routine with her dad before bed at night (after reading lots of books)! 


Eating:
She loves her food! She eats 3 meals and has snacks- and she eats basically whatever we are eating. She is still drinking about 24 ounces of formula a day, and we have now started introducing/ replacing some of it with whole milk- she likes it so far! 
She loves/expects her bottle in the car when we drive now, and yells if she doesn't get it (I created a monster!). We have tried to introduce milk in a straw cup, but she isn't super interested! 
I think her favorite food is still cottage cheese, but she also loves mum mums, yogurt melts, lasagna, black beans, rice, mandarin oranges...

Other Milestones:
- She has taken several steps- over 10 in a row! She stands alone -especially when she gets focused doing something and doesn't realize she's standing! And she wants to walk All. The. Time! She prefers holding my hand and walking in circles all over our house. She's is very demanding about doing this!! Without a hand, she loves crawling fast! 
- She still loves playing with Bella, with balls, and she will even occupy herself with the boys' Imaginext Batcaves (or similar things) and people. She is great at entertaining herself! 
- She has a lot of signs and signs VERY often! She often attempts words with the signs too! Some signs she does a lot: dog, eat, dada, mama, sleep, bird, milk, water, all done, please, more, ball, bath, book, cat, outside, etc!!  
- She still points at things, claps, waves,  dances, and laughs often... she is just precious!!! 
- Words: BA (book), Dada, Dad, Bababa, Mama, bye, hi, ahhhhh, dog, Bb-ba (bella), Shleee (sleep), this (and she points at things) ... 
- She has TWO teeth!! The two bottom teeth popped out together about 2 weeks before her 1st birthday! This makes her our baby with the most teeth at one (Both boys got their teeth between 11 and 12 months too- but they each only had one tooth on their first bday!)!

Here is a video of Ellie this month- not super exciting but a glimpse at our busy, happy girl. She is eating dinner, signing, babbling, etc... 


Comparison of boys at 12 months:

LJ.... 

Evan.... 
More pictures of the birthday girl: 


 Our sweet sweet girl is really starting to get some STRONG opinions!



 Signing 'Thank you'!

 

She stands!  

 She loves being silly and laughs a lot!

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