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\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nAs 1 year old you have 5 teeth.\u00a0 You have just decided to drop down to one nap a day.\u00a0 Selfishly I love that you and Reed are finally on the same nap schedule.\u00a0 Weekends are going to be so much more fun now that we aren’t spending the bulk of the day at home around nap times.\u00a0 On New Years Day you took your first steps.\u00a0 You are definitely not ‘walking’ yet, but you are getting more adventurous.<\/p>\n
One of your funny new things is that you demand that we hold you and walk around the house so you can point at every single picture on the wall.\u00a0 It is so cute because you just love to point at things.\u00a0 Last night you figured out how to work the light switch so I’m sure that will become a new pasttime for you too.<\/p>\n
You are SUCH a water baby.\u00a0 When you are in the bathtub you choose to lay on your belly and put your face in the water.\u00a0 You do this over, and over, and over again.\u00a0 When you pull your face out of the water you have the biggest smile on your face.\u00a0 You would stay in the bath for hours if we let you.<\/p>\n
Last night at dinner you would only eat green beans and blueberries.\u00a0 Anytime we tried to feed you something else you would blow raspberries at us.\u00a0 You screamed when we took you away from the table…until you realized Daddy was taking you into the bathroom.\u00a0 Then you kicked those little feet and tried to jump out of his arms.<\/p>\n
You are trying to talk.\u00a0 The funniest thing is when you drop food on the ground (which you do ALL the time) you look at me and make the ‘O’ face and say ‘UH-ooooh’.\u00a0 Melt my heart.\u00a0 Last night at dinner you actually made the ‘more’ sign (in sign language) and I was so excited.\u00a0 I love that you are becoming more communicative.<\/p>\n
If Reed is the singer in the family (and he is) you are definitely the dancer.\u00a0 Anytime you hear music you start dancing.\u00a0 On New Years Eve we were listening to a PINK album and you could not contain yourself.\u00a0 I wish I had video of your dance moves.<\/p>\n
I know I say this all the time…but you and Reed have the SWEETEST relationship.\u00a0 He can’t wait to see you when you wake up from your nap.\u00a0 And when you see him you kick your feet and smile so big.\u00a0 I think the only time you want me to put you down is if Reed wants to play with you.\u00a0 Reed is moving to the other side of the day care building soon and I’m so sad.\u00a0 Every day you two get to see each other.\u00a0 When he is playing outside he pulls a car up to the window to your room.\u00a0 He stands on the car and demands that your teachers put you in a seat by the window so he can see you.\u00a0 One day I walked in when this was going on.\u00a0 Your back was to me and you were facing Reed on the playground.\u00a0 You were kicking your feet and waving your arms so much.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Melt my heart.<\/p>\n
I know I say it all the time, but I love you so much.\u00a0 You have been a handful this first year, and you better believe we are thankful that you have finally figured out how to sleep through the night…but that sweet smile makes up for all of it.\u00a0 I love being your mom and I can’t wait to see the person you will become.<\/p>\n
Happy Birthday Ali!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alison Michelle, you are one year old today.\u00a0 I woke up this morning remembering this morning last year.\u00a0 I was SO ready to be done being pregnant, and I was SO ready to see your smiling face.\u00a0 I was nervous that I wouldn’t be capable of loving you as much as I love Reed, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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