12 Months Old

The BIG O-N-E, 1, 1, 1!!  It sure doesn’t seem like a year ago Lakelyn was born.  This has been by far the best and quickest year of my life.  This month we celebrated Lakelyn’s 1^st birthday with an Owl party at our house.  Her aunts, uncles, grandparents and great grandparents came to the party.

 Lakelyn moved from the infant room to the 1 year old room this month.  I was very nervous for this transition!  In the infant room Lakelyn slept in a crib but when they move to the 1 year old room they sleep on a cot.  Lakelyn ALWAYS fights her sleep, always.  It may not be for very long but she never just lies down and goes right to sleep.  I was so worried she would be coming home with no nap and be a disaster at home.  However, she did great!  Her first day she slept an hour and half on a cot, all by herself!  She has never had an issue with taking a nap since she has been in this room.

She also no longer eats at a high chair.  Her and her friends sit at a picnic type of table and eat lunch.  This is also hard for me to vision.  She takes so long to eat at home with hardly an distractions and sits in a high chair.  I have to get a picture of it one day!

Sleeping: You are still a great sleeper!  You are still going to bed between 7-8pm and waking up around 7am.  You are now only taking one nap at daycare and at home.  At daycare your naps are in between 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours.  At home they range from 2-3 hours.

Eating: You are still eating all big people food like a champ, slowly but surely.  You are now 100% on cows milk.  Daycare figured out that you drink better out of a hard nipple sippy cup so we have switched you over.  You still get a bottle in the morning and before bed but all other times you drink from a sippy cup.  You drink faster and more from a bottle and I like to make sure are full at night before you go to bed.  We have started to give you a fork and spoon with food but you still play with it instead of use it.

Clothes:  You mostly wear 12 Months clothes but have a few 18 month pants.

Diaper:  You are now wearing a size 4 diaper.  The size 3’s fit great and size 4’s look huge on you but don’t leak.  We only had a problem with them leaking over night and during nap time but it was easiest to switch then try and keep track of 2 different size diapers.

We also celebrated Thanksgiving this month!  It’s amazing to think this time last year you were 4 days old.

Lakelyn is still NOT walking.  She will walk along the furniture and with any push toy but will not walk alone.  She took her time learning to crawl so I am sure she will take her time walking!