13 months, waaaaa, wait, what happened to 12???

::WARNING:: This will be a picture heavy update! :)

E turns 13 months on Monday, so this will be her 13 month update, LOL, I am very delinquent on the 12 month update so I am combining them.

Life has hit the fast lane in more ways than one...  But let's rewind a little bit back to the middle of June.  My last update was on the 14th so we'll pick up from there...

E is more curious than a cat, she loves to help me cook in more ways than one. Here is her impression of a potato in my potato drawer.

She has developed a love for balloons when we were given a free kids balloon at Chic-fil-a. (Read into that what you will, I refuse to have my food choices become a platform for my political or religious beliefs)

She was finally able to fit into a helmet, so we got her one, and started going on bike rides

She loves to help sort the mail and taste it too!

Then on the 29th of June we celebrated A's birthday and we made a chocolate cookie cake, which we all enjoyed.

Some of us enjoying multiple times when E found the cake in the fridge and, bonus, found a gap in the foil... Yummy, cake for breakfast!

For the 4th of July, since we busy getting ready for E's first birthday party, we spent the day at home and went to the little park down the street.

The Thursday before her birthday we received a package from Nana with a bunch of birthday presents for E.  She got a doll house, a mermaid, some new clothes, and a bunch of fun stuff from Nana.

E turned 1 on Friday, June 6th, and we had a family celebration and E enjoyed a candle in ice cream and of course... Opening birthday presents!




 

We opened a birthday card from Nana

Daddy got E her first Barbie doll, the ballerina barbie since E still loved walking on her tippy toes.

Grandma and Grandpa Miller got her a Muppet WhatNot, which is a Muppet doll you get to dress up and can puppeteer.  Daddy and E have a lot of fun playing with our yet unnamed Muppet friend.

Then on Saturday the 7th we had an awesome pool backyard BBQ party to celebrate her birthday.  Auntie Lauren helped with the decorations and made the day extra special!
















She wore a special birthday dress Grandma Miller had gotten her that I save special for the occasion but this is the only photo we have of her in the dress.  :)

She had a great time playing in the pool with her friends.

Her beautiful smash cake

E thinking "now Mom, what am I supposed to do with this?"

"Ah, I get it now, eat it!"

E started a high chair strike sometime the week of her birthday so she ate and loved her cake so much more on my lap.  I can't say my outfit agreed!

 

We dug out and filled her sandbox with brand new clean sand.  She loves to play in it every day.

Her friend Lucy from my mothers group got her a phone for her birthday.  E loves taking and receiving calls on it.

Then on Tuesday the 10th of July she started taking her first steps.  Here is a small video of the first ones:

Here she is cruising a little more:

On the 21st her cousin Alex turned 1 as well so we took happy birthday pictures.  It's hard to get a 1 year old to focus.

And then we went to my company picnic at Knott's Berry Farms.  Here she is with A outside the park.

We all got to ride the carousel

E loved being able to walk around and play with her clapper while Daddy waited in line to ride the big kid rides.

Here is a movie of her walking skills:

Then at the end of the month we got to go to another friends 1st birthday party and E had a lot of fun "helping" J open his presents.

The more mobile she gets the more "fun" she seems to have.

 Then last night we got to go to the Redondo Beach Pier for their Summer Music Festival and see a band play called the "Classic Rock Cougars."  A went to school with their dummer.E had lots of fun people watching, dancing, and watching the ocean.

I think that is all caught up, but last but not least her 1 year old stats:

On July 10th she was:

Weight: 19lbs 6oz - 43 percentile

Height: 29.5in - 61 percentile

Head: 17.75in - 54 percentile

So, she is pretty much hitting smack dab in the middle of the growth carts.  However, when we went to her monthly hematologist appointment, about two weeks after her pedi appointment, and used the standing scale she weighed 20lbs, even.

Keep on growing little one, we'll keep on loving you, and enjoying every day, minute, and hour we get to share!