One Year Stats

Last week, in the midst of another small round of snow and ice, I took Ava for her one year check-up with the pediatrician.  Poor baby had to get three shots and she was not happy about it.  Other than that, she did great and is perfectly healthy.

Here are her official one year stats.

Weight  19 pounds 5 ounces  21st percentile
Length  28 3/4 inches  38th percentile
Head  17 3/4 centimeters  50th percentile

She is growing up so fast and getting into more and more "stuff."  One of her favorite activities is to pull all the tupperware containers out of the cabinet and toss them all over the kitchen floor.  She thinks this is great fun to do this while I am cooking dinner or washing dishes so I probably pick up and put away all that stuff at least 2 to 3 times a day.   One of her other favorite games is the "I throw it down, you pick it up" game.  She loves this.  Over and over again she will throw down something, a doll, a book, a plastic car or cup, anything really, she's not picky, and then look at me or her daddy and want us to pick it up and give it back to her.  Then she smiles and throws it down again.  This is her favorite church time game.  She plays with some good friends who sit behind us in church.  She will stand on our pew and throw the bulletin or a small board book or her stuff doll baby over the back of the pew, smile sweetly at Shannon and Dewayne, and then they will pick it up and give it back to her.  It keeps her entertained and as long as she isn't throwing something that makes a loud bang when it hits the floor, doesn't disturb too many people sitting around us.  Of course, she is still a Mommy's girl.  She loves to play games with Shannon and Dewayne, but she still won't let Dewayne hold her.  As a newborn she loved being held by Dewayne.  She is getting a little better in that she lets my parents hold her quite a bit now so I'm sure Dewayne will be back on the acceptable list before too long.

Our birthday tradition is to take the kids to have a donut on their first birthday.  It is their first "sweet."  We have done this with each of the older three so last Saturday it was Ava's turn.  We went to Krispy Kreme, which is not our usual donut place but is our traditional spot for the first birthday donut, and were not disappointed with fresh hot glazed when we walked in the door.  Ava loved her first donut.  We stuck with plain glazed for her.  I think that is plenty of sugar for a 1 year old or any of us for that matter.

Her first donut.  Yummy!  She is very focused on getting some more.

In her birthday hat saying Yay! for donuts.  

We delayed her birthday party until February.  The delay is partly because I am in denial about her already being a year old, partly because her birthday is so close to the holidays it caused me trouble, and partly because of the snow storm on Christmas that left me without power for 5 days.  Better late than never though.  I'll post photos of the fun times soon.