ONE

This baby doll turned ONE on November 7th!!  I am still in shock.

On her actual birthday,while Owen was at school, I got to go outside with Lexie and have a quick photo shoot before her nap. I'm so glad I got to capture my sweet little girl on her first birthday!

She had her check-up a few days later and she is a tiny lil' peanut! She weighs 20 lbs 10 oz (63rd percentile) and is 29 inches tall (43rd percentile).

At 12 months, Lexie:

• says "mama" deliberately
• says "dada"... sometimes
• finds her belly button on command
• EATs anything and everything, and A LOT of it!
• feeds herself. She does not need any help, thank you!
• takse a few steps by herself
• claps her hands when someone sings, "If You're Happy And You Know It"
• DANCEs to any music.  Sometimes she dances even when there isn't any music playing. She's got her own rhythm. :)
• does a "happy dance". Whenever she is excited/pleased by something, she will start bouncing her upper body and/or kicking her legs
• clicks her tongue
• stands all by herself for a looooong time, lower down to a squat, and stand back up
• growls (it's usually instigated by Owen)
• squeals REALLY loud and in a VERY high pitch when she's really happy, which is usually in the bathtub with her brother
• squeezes/crawls into the smallest spaces, and then usually get stuck
• has 6 teeth - four on top and two on bottom
• chases her brother around
• stands in the bathtub, but quickly sits back down when I remind her to "sit down"
• LOVES her brother and gets worried about him if he is upset
• LOVES to play with daddy and lights up when he enters the room
• LOVES to cuddle with mommy and during the night will wake up if mommy is not next to her

Pumpkin Patch

Before Halloween, Owen's Pre-K class took a trip to the pumpkin patch and we made it a family affair!  I wish I'd dressed Lexie a little cuter because these are the only pumpkin patch pictures I got of her this year. Oh, well!  You can see that she is wearing red shoes. These are shoes that Rick found at a consignment store. They were okay, but kind of worn out. In the Halloween post, you can see how I painted these shoes green for her costume! That's why she is wearing green shoes with red soles in the pictures.  Anyway...

 

Holding hands. Melts my heart. Every. Time.

Even though Lexie is totally closing her eyes, I love how Owen is being so sweet with Charlie.

 

 I love how this one shows Owen's crazy energy and Lexie's calm, go-with-the-flow demeanor.

So sweet.

 

 

And here's our own little pumpkin.