Happy 1st Birthday, Hadley Rose Block!

Ok, I am going to cry!  I can hardly believe that one year ago today I was trucking/waddling up the hill in the snow (enormously pregnant I might add) on our way to Hirslanden to meet our daughter for the first time.  I feel an overwhelming sense of luckiness to call her mine, and it is hard to fathom what life would be like without her.  She completes us!  It has been such a great year watching her little personality develop (or should I say big personality).  Happy birthday to our sweet little munchkin...please stop growing up so fast! (Read Hadley's birthday story here)

February 12, 2010

Height & Weight: 18 lbs 2 oz (a few weeks ago) - height tbd at her 1 yr. appt.

Latest words: Dada, Nana (Banana), Ow, Bobo (Mr. Bobo the elephant). Points at Oscar as says "T" for kitty.

Favorite Things: The biggest thing this past week has been BOOKS - she is obsessed with being read to, and it is so much fun! Other favorites: carting Mr. Bobo around the house by the ears/trunk/tail, her stand up music table (especially the banjo - she'll do an occassional fly by just to start up the banjo music and then keep walking), still has us holding her bottle when she eats (though she'll hold a sippy cup no problem), playing in her room with all her books (and making a big ole mess in general), her Gymboree class we go to on Mondays...very cute to see her interact with all the kids, though most of the time she's taking off in the other direction and exploring.

Favorite Foods: Scrambled eggs, yo-baby yogurt (why wouldn't she it tastes like dessert), loves butternut squash, broccoli, cheerios (Hadley's version of a junk food fix), veggie pirates booty, bakers breakfast cookies, fig newtons, turkey & havarti, bread & raviolis.  She's quite a good / healthy eater!

Dislikes: Holding still for a diaper change, or anything really. Her first ear infection which turned into a double ear infection...it was the roughest week of her life to date. Poor kid was even resistent to the first round of antibiotics so we had to go back for something stronger, which thankfully worked. Infant Motrin was our bff that week!

Accomplishments: Walks - always walking (no more crawling hardly ever, I miss her cute little hyper speed crawl), points at everything, drinks from a sippy straw cup, waves any time someone says the word "hi" or "bye", goes to get things when you ask her to: "Hadley where is Mr. Bobo?" and she goes and finds him and brings him over..."Hadley go get your water" and she comes trucking back with her sippy cup...it's so fun to really interact with her like this! And just yesterday anytime I told her she was going to be 1, she started holding up her finger.  Yes, our child is a genious.  Hadley: What's the square root of one?  (Holds up her finger...) Brilliant!

Highlight of the month: Obviously her first birthday!

I had planned to do these posts each month for the first year, and then cut down to every three to six months or so in her second year (a lot like a baby book is set up). So our next update will be at about 15 months - at that point Hadley may or may not have a sibling (mom is hoping so!).  In the mean time we're working on walking with me to the elevator / apartment (doing good so far), the word "gentle" (not doing as well with that one :), and playing independently (very good there, thankfully) to get prepped for little brother's arrival.  Exciting stuff happening in the Block household! Until next time...