14 Months and an Outdoor Bath

We got to take some fun bath shots last week in this great old barn tub I found in someone's front yard trash pile like 5 years ago... with the purpose of one day bathing my kids in it. So it was so great to finally get to do it with Selah and with her Grandma Becky there to help out. It was a blast and I want to do it again in hopes of getting some smiles out of her. Selah's smile is so precious these days with her 4 teeth showing through, including the huge "Moog gap" between her front teeth :)

To my sweet Selah: You are such a handful now that you are walking and crawling and exploring everywhere you go. You are fearless! Stairs, hide and seek, and rummaging through cabinets are your favorites, however, you have such a gentle side to you too. You love your dolls and all babies! I love your sign for baby, it is a one handed cradle close to your cheek accompanied by a sweet sigh. It somewhat resembles a chicken wing dance. You sign ball too, and freak out whenever you see anything that resembles a ball :) I love spending my days with you and watching you do more and more things every day.

San Antonio Visit

We got to visit with Tim, Myleigh, and Merrick all the way from Vermont!

Selah had a blast in my parent's backyard.

She is so great at slides!

Mom's pretty flowers

Fishing with Mom's handmade fishing poles.

Pregnant sisters :)

Selah playing at Kim's house.

If you look close you can see two front teeth coming in just this week!

Fun at Landa Park in New Braunfels.

Fun times swimming and eating Popsicles.

Not wanting to leave Grammy.

Came home and got to be with Don for his birthday.

She is Everywhere

Here is just some stuff that has been going on in the life of our sweet girl lately.

Selah got a big girl car seat with her birthday money. She is also facing forward and loves it! I love the ability of actually getting to see her and I'm so glad she can now get some air conditioning. Our hot Texas summer has been brutal.

She also loves to wear shoes.

It is strange because I never put shoes on her before, then all of a sudden at a year she decided she needed to start wearing them. If she sees a pair she will bring them to me and point to her toes.

Some shots from her Grandpa Don's last visit to see us.

She is walking around everything now. She walks along the whole kitchen until she gets to me doing the dishes and then holds on to my legs. She does more and more everyday. Lately, she just started practicing standing by herself, it is so amazing!

Here is one of Selah's favorite faces to make. It is so funny every time she does it. She will sniff in and out as loud as she can while her face is scrunched up like this. She loves that we laugh at it, it makes her just do it more and more.

She is a year now!

Selah turned one. So much happened in her life in such a short time. It was like she found out about this big birthday that she wanted to do some catching up. It started with the appearance of her first tooth last Saturday, June 5. Then on Monday she started crawling!! She is now a mobile baby. It has been so fun watching it happen!! She would forget for a few days that she learned how to crawl each morning after that, but by the afternoon she would figure it out again. She had also already been standing up against things, but she stated walking around stuff. She has gotten very daring and now walks around the couch and from the couch to the coffee table to the love seat. A day after the crawling I went to check on her when she was trying to fall asleep for a nap and it was so strange...her mobile had been disassembled and thrown behind her crib. I thought that was crazy and didn't know how she would have been able to reach it, but I guessed she just sat up and reached. Well I went in again about 10 minutes later and she was standing in her crib!! She still can't even pick herself up in the living room, but it now looks like she can do it in her crib. So just before her big day she has covered sooooo many skills! It is wild seeing her moving around the house where for so long she didn't.

She is still quite the sweetheart and her favorite thing to do is to see her Daddy. She loves to wave to him and pretty much everyone. She is a wonderful waver! We have taught her to blow kisses too and although she doesn't have the blowing part down yet, it is extremely cute. She is very much into hugging her dolls and stuffed animals and making the sweetest sigh each time. She signs "more" and "milk" now. I am weening her and once we learned that she likes to drink from a real person straw, it started to go much better. I am down to only one feeding now. She also has decided that she is done with baby food and wants only food she can pick up. It is so much harder feeding her now! Her favorite food is defiantly macaroni and cheese. I don't know how she mushes that stuff up with only those gums....it is something.

She had a party on Saturday the 12th and it was a blast. Most of our families got to be there and lots of her friends. We went swimming in our old swamp now that it is clean like a real pool and grilled out. She handled her cake just like I thought she would. At first she wasn't much into it because she didn't really know it was edible...but all it took was one taste of the icing. I made her cupcakes with sunflowers decorating the tops. She ate all the icing and then dug into the cake. She didn't mind at all that everyone was around her watching her. Right after she finished it she jacked her cousin Anni's little cupcake and shoved that one in her mouth. Overall she loves sweets I think.

It was wonderful getting to spend lots of time with family this past week. Keith's Mom came a few days before her party and my sister and her kids stayed a few days after. Selah had a great time! She also went to her one year appointment were she had to get 4 shots which wasn't fun. She weighs 20.5 pounds and is 29 inches long.