Birthday Girl

I cannot believe that a whole year has come and gone! H-bomb is no longer a baby, she's now a
TODDLER! Oh how far she has come since that tiny little barely 5 pound baby struggling in the NICU. She now weighs 22 pounds and is in the 75% for everything. Formula is a thing of the past and has been for about a month now and she's the only kid I know of that actually LIKES her multivitamin. Bottles are also out of our lives now as of one week ago today! Transitioning her to both of these things was much easier than I imagined it would be considering the horror stories I've heard from others. She is still working on learning to walk but I think it's only a matter of time since she pushes everything around the house. Climbing is her favorite activity these days. A few weeks ago she showed us she could make it all the way up a flight of stairs! She also likes to climb on her stroller and some of her toys.  It won't surprise me if she figures out how to climb out of her crib soon. Fruit is her favorite food, particularly watermelon and strawberries. What will we do when they are out of season? She is transitioning to all solid foods pretty well. We went through a tough spot with it but she seems to be eating almost everything we give her now. She can wave bye-bye, clap, give a high five and sometimes raise her little finger when you ask how old she is. Her vocabulary consists of Mama, Dada, bye-bye, nigh-nigh (night-night) and no,no,no. Well that's what's intelligible anyway. She talks all the time, it's so cute to hear the inflection in her voice. What else? Oh, she is a stinking little fish! She loves to be in the water. She likes to dance, when the right music comes on.  Mickey and Minnie Mouse are still her favorites, too, but she doesn't like the Hot dog Dance anymore. I think it's because she knows that means the show is almost over. She's smart like that. The itsy bitsy spider is her favorite song, I mean pull-her-out-of-an-out-right-fit favorite song. I think that about sums up what H bomb is up to these days.

In the past year our little mouse has:

1. spent 10 days in a critical care unit

2. been healed of 2 congenital heart defects

3. flown on an airplane, twice

4. been to a MS State basketball game

5. met Mickey and Minnie Mouse

6. been to Disney World

7. spent the night in MS, FL, GA, OK and AZ

8. cut 8 teeth

9. had double pnuemonia and learned how to take breathing treatments like a big girl

10. made her Mommy and Daddy the proudest, happiest parents on earth!

Since we were just getting back from Disney on her birthday we postponed her party a week. It will be this Saturday at a park near our house. But we couldn't let her special day pass without at least a little party. She got her first taste of cake and icing and she loved it!

First few bites...

MMMMMMMM...

That was GOOOOOD!