The week before Christmas something very exciting happened at our house. Sweet Sophie turned one year old! Her older siblings counted down the days until this important event and were thrilled when it arrived. Peter and Cooper collaborated on this birthday banner and were so pleased that they could make something for Sophie's special day.
We discovered back in September that we don't have any lighters in the house, one of the outcomes of a moving company packing and shipping your belongings. We all chuckled as Phoebe pretended to blow out her candles and I mentally jotted down the word lighter onto the shopping list in my brain. Well, it turns out I don't read that list as thoroughly as I should and I never bought the lighter, so Sophie had an unlit candle on her birthday banana muffin. That's okay, I didn't really want my newly minted one-year-old playing with fire anyway.
Sophie wasn't sure what to make of the gifts at first.
She caught on pretty quickly though.
She loved the paper - wrapping paper, tissue paper, clothing tags, it didn't matter - that was her favorite part.
See, more paper.
I should correct my earlier statement. The paper was her second favorite part. Hearing the Happy Birthday song was her favorite. She would grin when we sang it or played it, which prompted us to sing it and play it a lot.
One is a big birthday at our house. It means you're now allowed to have screen time. We watched The Muppet Christmas Carol as a family on the night of her birthday. I think she liked that I didn't turn her away every time she tried to watch, as I'd done for the year previous.
Here are a few things about Sophie at age one:
- She is crawling and pulling herself to stand on anything and everything.
- She has started to cruise a little and she is careful and skilled at sitting back down after standing.
- She loves books and baby dolls and will kiss the latter whenever prompted.
- She also will kiss her family members with big, sloppy, face-grabbing kisses.
- She is curious and likes to climb into small spaces to investigate them. The big kids have started yelling out "Baby alert!" whenever she goes somewhere they deem unsafe.
- She's not so interested in baby food anymore, but is still getting used to regular table food.
- She still nurses, though not as often during the day.
- She says several words including Dada, Mama, na (which means food), dao (which means doll and yes, it does sound different than Dad), hi, bye, and her newest word bumpa (which means Grandpa).
- She loves to clap, wave, blow kisses, click her tongue, and say "bababababa" which she started doing after I demonstrated what a chicken says.
- She is judicious with her smiles and laughs, unless your name is Peter, Cooper, or Phoebe, then she'll laugh and smile at pretty much anything you do.
- She is sweet-natured and loves to snuggle.
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