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.

11 months (almost a month late)

Macy enjoyed herself some lasagna...as you can probably tell. She shoveled and shoveled to her hearts content.

Macy has mastered the stair at the camera look.

So sad that the one picture of her smiling is cut off...that's what I get when I am trying desperately to get her to smile and not paying attention to looking in the camera.

Macy has turned into such a little lover. She gives me hugs and kisses (honis) frequently. Lately she has been understanding so much. I love that she can understand what I am saying and somewhat communicate with me.

Macy can say a few words really well, and she attempts many others. Yesterday, we put up the Christmas tree and she called it the sasa de. It was pretty close. Her best words all start with the letter D, and if they don't originally start with D, she adds one.

Macy is a paper eater...any paper she can get her hands on goes in her mouth. I hear that her father also loved him some paper and even ate a whole newspaper once.

Macy is a great eater of solid foods, she will eat ANYTHING! The problem is that she eats more solids than she drinks milk, so I am trying to force a bottle down her along with nursing. She is just so skinny...she needs some fat on those bones.

Macy does not like to sit still. She is a mover and a shaker. The only time she sits still is when she is in a big group of people she doesn't know, or there is a ton of commotion to keep her occupied and entertained.

Macy is so close to being 1 year old. I cannot believe how quickly time has gone. Macy feels like a giant to me now, and I wonder where my baby has gone. I am enjoying seeing her learn and grow and develop. Being a mom is seriously the best job ever!

Pumpkins and Ladybugs

I was so excited to carve a pumpkin this year since we now have a child. Macy was so enthralled with the entire process. Clark gave her some of the inside gunk and she inspected it and inspected it. I wish we had had more time so we could have really let her explore...oh well, next year.
Macy LOVED the pumpkin...all she wanted to do was touch it. I kept freaking out because there was a candle lit inside and she was getting all grabby.

I wish we had Clark home more so we could enjoy more fun festivities...I like doing things as a family and making fun family memories.

I have been thinking about what I wanted Macy to be for her first Halloween since I was pregnant. I had all these great extravagant plans...but alas they were not fulfilled. I wanted to do a family theme, but Clark had to work on Saturday night (the night we celebrated) so those plans were foiled. Then I decided that I wanted Macy to be a ladybug because I call her Macy bug. I went looking for a ladybug costume, but the only 2 that I like anywhere were sold out EVERYWHERE. I then decided to make her costume...I didn't think I could do a ladybug, so for a while I was gonna make her an m&m mini. Finally I decided I could make a ladybug costume and it didn't matter if it was the cutest costume anyone had ever seen because Macy can't even walk or understand what Halloween is...so...
On Halloween Macy wore black pants as well, but this was just a little photo shoot I did the next day. I really wanted to get pictures of her on Halloween, but I left my camera at home and was also locked out until around 8'oclock pm.
We had a lot of fun on Halloween. My Aunt and Uncle had a Halloween party at their house with most of my dad's side of the family and their posterity. Macy loved playing with all the little kids. There were a ton of games like pumpkin bowling, fishing, guess how many candy's in a jar, a cupcake walk, and more. All my cousins and their families, and my aunts and uncles were dressed up great. They had some really creative costumes. I hope they do this again next year!
My mom and Julie said that Macy was the longest ladybug they had ever seen. I think they are right...

I love my little ladybug, who is quickly approaching the age of 1...I can't believe it! She is getting more teeth and starting to say a few words including, Daddy, no, doggy, and all done. I can't get over how precious it is to see her develop and learn. Man I love her!

10 Months

Oh man how I love my baby! She gets cuter and cuter every day. She is getting so smart and I keep expecting her to start talking to me. She does however, have her way of communicating with me. With different pitches of "EHHHS," she lets me know what she thinks or wants.

Macy now drinks from a sippy cup. It has taken her a couple days to figure out how to feed it to herself, she can do it all by herself. She self feeds most everything. I just don't trust her with a spoon and yogurt, or anything of that consistancy.

I have taught Macy some new tricks. She now gives high fives and she can grab my nose when I ask her where my nose is.

Macy is cruising all around the place. She thinks she can walk, but definitely doesn't have the balance...this leads to some not so pleasant tumbles.

Macy's hair is growing, but not fast enough for my liking. I can put clips in it, but they just don't look great because she has almost no hair on the sides of her head. The back is getting longer and sometimes gets a little curl in it. I can't wait to see what it looks like when it is grown out.

She continues to be a string bean. I feed her as much as I possibly can, but still no fat sticks to her. Clark even told me to stop feeding her all the time. She seriously is almost always eating.

Macy's favorite time of the day is our walk. She is happy the entire time and looks around at all of the scenery.

Macy LOVES animals. She starts shaking with excitement at the sight of any animal. I was watching some show that had zoo animals on the screen, and Macy stared at the animals and squealed at them. It is precious.

Macy is moving all over the place, and with that comes some bad effects. One is that I will find her chewing on something, and when I get it out of her mouth, it is a worm or a beetle!!! YUCK! I hate that we have so many little bugs coming into our house all the time...it is quite inconvenient.

Macy is a great appreciator of music. She dances ANY time music comes on...even if it is just a little snip it from a commercial, or a little tune I sing around the house. My favorite is when she starts busting out her moves in church to the hymns...so cute.

Macy also loves babies/kids and she will talk/squak at them at the top of her lungs. I think I need to make her a little sibling ;)

Guess Who Pulls Herself Up

I thought Macy would never pull herself up...she seemed so far away from doing it, but I was wrong. BAM! Out of nowhere she pulled herself up on the bouncy seat. Then she pulled herself up on the fireplace. I am not a fan of this because the fireplace is marble/tile and has sharp edges. Any suggestions on how to child proof it?

Macy also stood by herself for about 3 seconds before losing her balance. I can't believe she is getting so close to walking. Oh me oh my, my baby is growing up :(/:)