big picture

Trying out posting big pictures to the blog. I googled it and found this site. Well it took me a couple of tries to get it to work. I kept missing the part where it said to change the s400 to s800. Yahooooo, I did it! It is more fun seeing a bigger picture of Hallie. Right?

2010 1 year old

Hallie is a year old and I don't know how it happened so fast, I guess that is just the way it goes. It is amazing to see all the growth she has gone through and everything she has learned. It was fun documenting each month with the Stendig calendar. Look back and see how she has grown - newborn * 1 month * 2 months * 3 months *4 months * 5 months * 6 months * 7 months * 8 months * 9 months * 10 months * 11 months * and now 1 year old.

At one year old Hallie weighs 19.4 lbs (23rd percentile) and is 29 inches tall (47th percentile). Here is what she is doing-
-She can walk so fast it might be called running at times.
-Easily stands herself up and can and spring herself back up.
-Loves to copy any movment Berret or I make (example-when I do exercise videos she'll do squats and waves her arms and stuff)
-Has her 6 teeth figured out. She no longer takes everything out of her mouth to see how awesome her teeth work, It is pretty cute when she closes her lips tightly to chew stuff up in the front of her mouth.
-She has been eating awesome lately and is completely against eating baby food.
-Has some great new dance moves.
-She is still signing and using it more but she pretty much uses the same sign for drink and eat.
-We are seeing more and more of her personality and plays little games with us.
-She loves to play with her doll or teddy bears giving them kisses, hugs, and little pats. She smiles when she comes across them and will then carry one everywhere.
-We have had to install safety things on our cabinents and drawers but we left a couple open though that had stuff that was ok to play with. She has learned what cupards these are and will go right to them to play as if it were her toy basket. She enjoys the non-toys like a spatula.
-She likes to be around people and show off especially at church.
-Her hair is long enough to put teeny tiny clips in!

Hallie is a joy and we are so happy to have her.

beautiful face

family pictures

happy birthday hallie!

Hallie is 1 year old. We had a party for her and it was lots of fun. Hallie being the little ham that she is loved all the attention.It was time to open presents but she was busy mooching food off of Becky.We had to coax her into getting started. We asked all the guests not to spend alot of money on Hallie to instead bring simple things that kids actually like. In this bag is an old computer keyboard that Hallie now loves to play with. She rolls all over it to press as many keys as possible. She really loved all the new "toys" she got- old cell phone, hat, books, glow stick, toilet paper tubes, glow in the dark rubber bracelet, wooden spoons, and water squirting fish. Thanks everyone, Hallie loved all of her gifts.We made a contest out of who brought the junk gifts that Hallie liked the most. First place was the books and glowstick from Warren, Allison and Dani. Second place was the wooden spoons and squirting fish from Landon and Becky. Here is Landon getting his prize for second place Twilight trading cards.She is all stripped down and ready for her cake.I'm not a big fan of cake at all but I used this simple chocolate cake recipe. It turned out awesome and was incredible easy. The frosting was even good, and I usually hate frosting. I just used strawberries instead of raspberries.

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