Aliza 1 Year

How a year has flown!!!  Your first birthday you were met with multiple viruses one including an ear infection.  You are well now after a month of fevers and crabbiness and your happy self has emerged yet again! 
One thing I will say for babies is that we do not give them enough credit for how smart they are.  A few weeks back, I had what my friend Katie and I call " Number One Mom Moments". I had come up with laundry and forgot to close the basement door, Aliza went down and thankfully was crying on her hands and knees at the bottom of the stairs, with the terror of it seeming to be the worst part.  A couple days later Isabelle left the door open and she wouldn't go to the stairs.  We got back from Ks, she still won't go.  She used to try to put her face in the tub water.  Then she got to where she would start to, then look at me and shake her head no.  She heard us talking about going for a walk so she went and got her sun hat and pulled up to the bench at the table while I was cleaning up supper to give it to me.  She is a mimic.  She signs more, all done, milk, night night.  I need to learn more to teach her!  If I say are you hungry?? she starts signing "milk".  She loves to dance, she loves the outside.  She also likes to pinch and bite which we are working on. :)  She got to a point where she would pinch then give "loves"  like she knew she was supposed to be gentle.  When I was talking to the dr at her 1 year apt, she kept nodding her head" yes".  Her stats were 16lbs. 14oz. I do believe 0% and 28.25 inches which was 25%.  She isn't walking yet but walks around things, and can stand up on her own.  She came crawling in to the kitchen with a baby safety outlet plug she had pulled out, I later found it in the bottom of the dishwasher. :)  She imitates sounds and everything else.  Funny little baby.  Still taking those two naps which is great!!
And Christian had his apt and he grew 3 inches last year!  He is still at the bottom of the charts.  I charted his height as if he were a 4 year old and that put him in the 25%.  It gives me a good idea where he will be in regards to his fellow kindergartners size when he starts a year later.:)
That's all for now, I could go into how amazing sick we have been for the past 6 weeks but I'm too tired to put my energy there.  We are trying to make the most of when we are NOT sick. :)

here is a link I really enjoyed btw motherhood