Sunday, September 18, 2011

Turning ONE is TUTU fun!

Our little girl had her big day!
She turned ONE!
 Such a big girl now!


She enjoyed walking around with her cousin Cale.

And snuggling (we think that's what she was doing...ha!) with cousin Jayla.

She loved opening presents!





And she especially....

loved....

(not the hat)


digging into the cake!

family photo

 Callie decided Nana needed some cake on her face!


 All done! Get me out!

It was a great day! Callie celebrated with family and friends. She got tons of fun new stuff to play with and she had a ball!
Can't believe she is already one! But it was tutu fun!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Callie turns 1!!

Callie Tate is 1!!
I can't believe it! One year ago today, we were welcoming our sweet baby girl into this world. This year has gone so quickly.


Stats
Then: weight - 8lbs 1oz, height - 20 inches
Now: weight - 21 lbs 4oz, height - 29 3/4 inches
What a blessing she is to us!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Blankie

Callie is going to be just like me in a lot of ways, I can already tell.

One way....she loves her blankie.


It goes just about everywhere with her. Much like my blankie did. For many (many) years.

When I get Callie out of her crib after a nap or in the mornings, she always reaches out for me. As I get close to her to pick her up, she leans down and grabs her blanket to bring with us. It is so sweet!

She wasn't sleeping great at daycare for the first few weeks and I thought having her blanket there with her would help. I didn't really want to mess with taking the blanket back and forth everyday so we bought her another one. The original blanket was a gift. It has her name embroidered on it. It is sooo soft. It's thirty-one brand and you have to order through a consultant to get items from thirty-one. I couldn't find one through a few consultants because it is discontinued. Luckily, I found someone who could find one for me and we got it. Not sure if it was a coincidence or not, but she slept great at daycare after we got that extra blanket. Probably not.

Nothing is sweeter than seeing her snuggle up with her blankie!

Saturday, September 10, 2011

We've got a WALKER!

Just one week shy of her 1st birthday, our girl has decided that walking will be her way of getting around now. She is D-O-N-E crawling and only WALKS now.

Look at her GO!

She just decided this morning that she is going to walk everywhere. I love it!!


Saturday, September 3, 2011

Callie loves her "dods"

Callie knows the uses of items now. Like she will get a brush and raise it up to her head and try to brush her hair, often with the bristles facing up and the plastic part on her head. HA! She will get her shoes and put them down at her feet and try to get them on the best way she knows how, which would never actually get them on her feet but she knows that they go on that part of her body. If I give her a diaper to keep her content during a diaper change, she will shove it down between her legs. She pulled my toothbrush out of my travel bag and put it up to her mouth. I love to see her learning so much!  
She LOVES buckles right now. She is OBSESSED with the buckles on her carseat and high chair. She always tries to buckle them when I am putting her in or taking her out. 

“I can do this momma, I know I can.”


Callie has also started to call things by name. Often her name for them sounds nothing like their real name, but I notice she calls items by her same name for them each time.

She calls the dogs “dod” and she says it and points to them now.

And boy does she ever love her “dod.” When she wakes up from a nap and is crying, all I have to do is take her in to where the dogs are and she smiles and laughs and loves on them. She is getting better and better at petting them gently. We went through a stage where she would hit them, but now she pat-pats quite nicely. J