At One Year

At your one year appointment you weighed 23 pounds 12 ounces, and were 33.5 inches long. You can walk, and love to climb up onto everything. You don't clap or wave, but you give us "baby-fives", hugs, and kisses. You love to play peekaboo from behind the arm of the love seat and raise your arms to "How big is Miles?".
Your first word was night-night...in reference to your blue and green blanket. Now you can say, Mama, Dada, and dog as well. You say night-night now when you are tired and will walk me to the stairs. If you are hungry or thirsty you will walk me to the fridge, and if we ever ask you if you want to go to the park, you go right to the box that holds all the shoes to get yours out.
You are determined. You will try and try until you get where you want to go or what you wanted. You are so funny. You love to laugh at everything, and make us always smile. You are daring. You love it when Dad tries to "drop" you, and you love love love being high up. You are snuggly. When you get sleepy, all you want to do is roll around on the ground cuddling up to your blanket. You will carry it over to one of us and then collapse into our arms. You are curious. You explore everything, want to touch everything, put it into your mouth, throw it on the ground, carry it around the house. You discover nooks and crannies I never knew existed. You are such a little explorer.
Your favorite animal is definitely a dog. You fell in love with Ginger at Grandma and Grandpa Checchio's. You flirt with other people when you are close to us, but rarely let anyone else play with you. You love other kids and want to be doing anything that they are.
You are such a joy, and have always been so happy.