Brooklyn is 1!!!

  Stats:

Weight: 17 lbs, 13 ozs - 15%

Height: 28 1/2 inches - 30%

Head Circumference: 45- 45%

Brooklyn likes throwing things to see how they sound, where they land, etc. Her favorite things to throw are balls. She throws them and then chases them down and throws them again.


She has been more whiny, but I think it is because she has so many teeth coming in. She got three in one week, and has three more that I can tell are trying to come through, maybe more. That makes the grand total of 5 teeth at 12 months.

Brooklyn can stand by herself really well for up to 2 minutes. She expects everyone to be watching and everyone to be clapping at her amazing feat. She loves walking with someone holding her hands and pushing her walking toys, but isn't quite ready to do it on her own. Probably in a couple of weeks she will be walking.

Because she likes to stand and is trying to walk, she has started a half walk, half crawl, where her butt is in the air and she walks like a monkey.

She wants to eat and snack all day long. If there isn't food, she usually isn't too happy.

It is funny to see how different your children are. Brooklyn loves dolls and stuffed animals. She coos at them, snuggles them and plays with them. Laneah didn't like stuffed animals until she was much older and she never liked dolls and still could care less about them.

Brooklyn loves our cat Monty. When she sees him, she chases him all around the house squealing.

She loves to play, but she also gets bored easily. She likes playing on her own, but wants mommy very close by. I enjoy watching her play and learn. She is very interactive in her play for her age.
 Brooklyn is so smart. She picks up brushes or combs and tries to use them on her own hair.
 She also tries really hard to put socks and shoes on herself.


I think this is so funny. Brooklyn puts toys in her mouth and then crawls around with them hanging out of her mouth. It cracks me up.
She doesn't like when things are clean. She will seriously crawl behind me or Jason while we are picking up and whatever we put away, she will take back out. A few of her favorite things to do is to throw all the books off the bookshelf and to unfold all the laundry that mommy just folded:)

Brooklyn is still very good at singing and dancing. She has such good rhythm. She loves patty cake; all I have to do is say "patty cake" and she starts clapping her hands. 

 I seriously can't wrap my head around the fact that my baby is a year old. Brooklyn is such a dream come true. She is such a good baby and we love her so much!