1 Year Old!

I cried multiple times in the days leading up to Kadee's birthday. Time has flown by way too fast! I would hold Kadee while she was falling asleep and just wish she could stay littler for a while longer. She is just so big now. Kadee likes to whistle, show off how good she is at saying "hi", and say "Dada" all day long. In the last few days Kadee has started to experiment with different word sounds. She also loves the fish at the zoo. When I took her this last week, she liked to stand in the window and point and shout "ishy" (or something extremely close to that..). Then she would mimic the fish opening and closing their mouths. According to her, that's what a fishy says. Brynne and Cache also taught her what a monkey says during one of our Skype calls, and today she has started to figure out how to make a duck sound. She is getting very good at imitating the sounds she hears.

We celebrated Kadee's birthday one day early because Spencer has been doing his summer pharmacy rotation in Ada. But I baked some cupcakes on Sunday and grilled cheese for her dinner. I think she liked the grilled cheese..sorta. I made it with homemade bread so we liked it at least. We Skyped my family first. They sang Kadee "Happy Birthday" and watched her open her gift from my Mom (onesies that fit). Then we did the same thing with Spencer's family (she opened a cute book). We let her eat her cupcake while we Skyped Wallaces too. I don't know how much of it she actually ate. She made quite a mess though. She also opened the gift we got her, which was a pack of fridge magnets that I knew she would like.

On her actual birthday it was just Kadee and Mommy at home. We were going to have her 1 year doctor appointment that day but they rescheduled so we took advantage of that time to get some pictures taken.

She didn't want to hold still so I gave up and just followed her around.

Whistling :)

Her 1 year appointment was actually rescheduled for today. Before we left this morning I was trying to get some laundry put away. I turned around and found Kadee totally immersed in books. She was reading "The Napping House'. It was upside down but just too cute.

We walked over to Kadee's appointment early because I knew she had to get a lot of shots. I got her all ready for the hot walk over there. Kadee weighed in a 23 lbs and is 31 inches tall. She got 6 shots and screamed a lot..that is.. until she saw the sucker the nurse gave her. Then all was forgiven. She did a pretty good job though.

Kadee was SO sticky when we got home that I put her in the bathtub until she had completely finished her sucker.