One Year Old Hannah

Hannah's 13 month stats:

Weight: 20.3 pounds (24th percentile)
Height: 30 inches (63rd percentile)
Head Circumference: 45.5 centimeters (52nd percentile)

Hannah has the sweetest, happiest little disposition, but behind her smiles is a tough, determined little person.  I experience dejavu constantly.  I witness my Hannah's tenacity as she plays throughout the day and I am reminded of the same budding ferocity Emmy expressed at the same age.  No shortage of personality in our home, and we wouldn't have it any other way. :)

Hannah is cruising, walking along furniture and will even walk holding one of our hands. She has taken a couple of steps on her own on just two occasions, but hasn't attempted it since.  She has figured out the stairs and can ascend pretty quickly, it's the descent that we haven't approached yet. The stair infatuation developed over night, which called for desperate child-proofing measures so that I could do more than guard the stairs during her wakeful periods.

She is a little chatterbox, saying "dada," "mama," "duck," "snack" (sounds like "ack"), "dat" (said when pointing to something), "Darla" (used for Molly and Darla, which sounds pretty similar to "dada") and "ball".  If we ask her where something is, she will point to it.  She waves when we say "hello" or "bye bye" and has started giving kisses, complete with giggles afterwards.  She claps on command or every time we say "yay!" She loves music, and gets down with a super cool bounce move.

She goes down for bed at 7:00 each night and has (luckily) slept without interruption until between 6-6:30 each morning.  She started consistently sleeping through the night just before her birthday when I switched from nursing to whole milk bottles.  I didn't even realize how sleep deprived I was until I got my first full night of sleep!  She naps twice a day, usually going down between 730 and 8 for about two hours in the morning and a second nap around 12:30 or 1:00 for a couple of hours as well.

She loves to play with whatever Emmy is playing with.  She is notorious for taking Emmy's sippy cups and drinking from them, even when hers is right next to her.  I'm pretty certain she just likes the rise she gets out of Emmy.  She loves my phone, swiping her fingers all over it which reliably opens all sorts of apps.  She find features on my phone that I never knew existed.  She holds it up to her ear to "call" Dada as often as she can throughout the day.  Taking it from her is the quickest way to tick Hannah off, which Emmy does in order to "help" me out (although I think it just makes her feel powerful.) :-P  She is on a ball hunt much of the time, when she find them she likes to clap them together, hand them off, or roll them so she can chase them again.  If only adults were this easily entertained.

Hannah is my little bug, and doesn't like to be far from me.  We've kind of been going through some separation anxiety recently, which caught the wonderful ladies in the nursery at church off-gaurd, because Hannah was known for her easy-going nature.  Luckily, she is easily distracted and can be lured away with most toys. When we're at home, she's usually crawling behind me wherever I go and climbing up my yoga-pant legs when I stop.  When we're out shopping, she prefers the Ergo carrier or my hip over the shopping cart.  I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have in my personal space most of the time, but I am grateful for the time to myself during her naps. :-P

Hannah has 7 teeth with an eighth on it's way up.  Her molars are working their way up, too, beneath some hugely swollen gums.  She's taking teething standing up, but will be grateful for a breather soon, I'm sure.

I'm really not sure how either of my children grow on the very little food they consume each day, but among Hannah's favorites are little smokies sausages, sweet potato fries, applesauce pouches, graham crackers, pear slices, bean and cheese quesadillas, hummus and carrots, and any and all bread products. Anything else gets fed to the dogs.

As for the cloth diapers...we still use them, some of the time.  For a long while, Hannah would get a gnarly diaper rash despite my regimented laundry routine.  It seemed she would be in cloth diapers until she got a rash and then disposables until it cleared up.  I got fed up with this routine and put the cloth diapers away for a couple months.  I "stripped" them over and over again and rethought my approach to cleaning them, and we have been lucky for the last couple of months, since I've been using a third of the originally recommended Rockin' Green detergent and, basically, run them three times with an extra rinse.  The High Efficiency washing machine uses very little water, so I'm pretty sure there was a bunch of detergent residue (despite my following the washing directions to the "T") which was irritating dear Hannah's tush.  Anyways, it's better now, although with the amount of time it takes to wash the diapers, I question whether or not I'm helping the environment at all...:-P  She still wears a disposable diaper to sleep because, frankly, she sleeps longer.

Here is a little video we caught while playing after bath time: (Love those girls! :)