One Year Old

I cannot believe my baby is ONE year old!!! Where has the time gone. I have been super emotional about her growing lately. Yesterday, Clark and I packed away the clothes that don't fit her anymore and put away things she doesn't use and we both got really emotional about how the time has flown by and that Macy is not a baby anymore. Well she is, but isn't all at the same time. The good thing about her growing up is that she is really blossoming. She is understanding so much of what I say to her. She can actually communicate with me, not all with words, but it is still so helpful.
Macy is such a little lover. She gives honis (kisses) freely. Often I will look over to see her giving her toys, dolls, books, etc. kisses. This melts my heart. One of her favorite things to do when she is allowed in Mommy and Daddy's bed is to go back and forth giving Clark and me kisses. The other night she was doing just this and as she went to kiss Clark a burp came out and up came spit up right in his mouth. He spit it out on my sleeve and this made Macy laugh soooo hard. This was the hardest she has ever laughed and she went for about 3 minutes straight. Clark and I just laughed and laughed with her. This is my favorite memory I think I have of us all together so far.
Macy is getting so smart. I'm sure she is just normal, but I am a proud mama. She can tell us what a doggie says, what an elephant says, and what a cow says. She is working on cat right now, but meow is a hard sound for her to make.
I'm pretty sure Macy is going to be artistic like her father because she loves to look at pictures. I often find her staring at a painting on the wall or just looking through the pictures in her books.
This picture is Macy making her elephant noise. She has a little sense of humor and thinks she is so funny. When we were in California for Christmas, she fake sneezed for my mom and dad. When they got a big kick out of it, she did it over and over grinning after each time.
Macy has finally learned how crawl correctly. She still prefers the army crawl because it is much faster, but she will get up on all fours and crawl now. I don't think she is close to walking just yet. She is incredibly cautious and doesn't like feeling unstable in the slightest. She has gotten a little more daring, but I think it will be a couple months until she walks. I walked at 13 months and Clark at 14 months so she's not really behind in that matter.
Macy has become a copy cat. She copies most of what I do. I love this because it is such a good way for her to learn. She now knows how to use a phone because of copying me. She picks it up puts it to her ear and jibber jabbers. We pulled some cotton out of a shoe and Clark put it up to his face and said HO HO HO. Macy took the cotton put it to her face and said O O O. What a little precious.

Macy still loves to dance to any music she hears...I love this about her. She is such a happy and curious baby who doesn't sit still. She is letting me know her opinions more and more each day, but she is still a sweetie pie.
12 month stats:

length- 30 1/4 in 87% (she was arching her back so I think she is actually a little longer)
weight- 17 lbs 15 oz 7% (she was sick and lost a little weight, but she is still so skinny)
head- not exactly sure, but 75% (she has been 75% forever for head)

Santa Claus

WE took Macy to meet Santa for the first time at my cousin in law Geoff's chiropractic clinic in Lindon. Macy is usually totally fine going to strangers, but of course she was sick and totally clingy to Mommy. I was the total epitome of "mom" and kept trying to get her to smile and telling Clark to take another picture. I wanted to capture the perfect image.
This Santa has to be the best Santa I have ever seen. He was so sweet and jolly and even I was star struck. Macy looks like she could be one of his elves.
While we were waiting for santa to arrive, there were these little boys talking about why they thought he was late. One said that it is pretty hard getting down a chimney. The other said that he was probably held up at the hospital giving all the kids presents. How sweet and innocent childhood is. I love seeing Christmas through a child's eyes.
This experience really got Clark and I excited for the day when Macy really knows what is going on and can get all giddy and excited about meeting santa and waking up Christmas morning to find presents under the tree. But we are most excited about is teaching sweet Macy about our brother who was born in a stable and lived a perfect life and atoned for our sins so that we could return to live with our Father in Heaven again.

Roseola

A couple of days before Macy's first birthday, she came down with a horrible fever. Even after giving her tylenol, it was 103 degrees. I made Clark go get some infant ibuprofen at around 10:30 pm because I just wanted her to sleep. She was miserable and I was miserable. She had a very hard time sleeping and most nights she just laid in our bed crying. I felt so bad for her. I was terrified that she had some horrible illness, but we were lucky and after 3 days the fever broke. Then came a rash...to the untrained eye this would look like a bad thing, but luckily I have a pediatric nurse practitioner living right upstairs that helped me diagnose it as roseola. It is very harmless and very common, the worst part is the fever.
Macy wanted to be held all of the time, so when I needed to get something done she was handed off to Daddy. Here she is watching him play world of warcraft on the bigscreen. You can see how sick she is in her eyes.
Love my baby girl.