Fun to be One
365 days and over 2,500 dirty diapers later and Elizabeth is 1 year old. Our 8 pound 2 oz baby is now a toddler (”one who walks in short tottering steps”). At her checkup today she weighed in at just over 21 pounds and is 31.25 inches. She’s still in the 95th percentile for height and she’s creeping up in the weight department.
It seems like each one of those 365 days has been filled with something new- be it teething, tottering, discovering the kitties… I can’t believe I wanted to go back to work after she was born!
We decided to start off her birthday celebrations right and threw her a party at our neighborhood clubhouse. Kids could run around all they wanted and we wouldn’t have to worry about something getting broken-it was great. In honor of our year of the monkey baby, we chose a monkey theme, complete with pin the banana on the monkey. We grilled out burgers and hotdogs. Well, actually Frank was outside at the grill with a flock of kids around him all attracted to the dangers of fire and heat. We also had two pinatas-one each for kids and adults. For those of you who are curious, plastic mini-bottles of alcohol are not unbreakable when batted around in pinatas.
Elizabeth got a little overwhelmed when it came time for cake (especially after just waking up from a surprise nap). She’s never had 18 kids and 16 adults all staring at her singing, so I can understand why she froze up and just stared at the cake. She refused to even take a bite of her special baby carrot cake, carefully baked in the shape of a monkey head. Oh well. Next year she’ll be begging for cake.
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