Well a year has come and gone and now you are the big 13 months! You have been a very busy Iggy. Right now you are napping next to me because you were up about every 1/2 hour last night! You have two bottom teeth coming in and possibly molars but we’re not sure since you wont let mommy see in there for long. You started doing a lot of new things lately and are just so much fun. We just got home from Florida and you caught a nasty virus that you’re finally kicking but you managed to still have a blast and smile. This is your first official “virus” that lasted about a week and I hope to GOD that it is your last…though that is prob not realistic. I hate seeing you sick and not yourself- it breaks my heart. Anyway, that’s about all we’re going to dwell on that dumb ole virus…on to the good stuff!
1. You are walking everywhere!!! I think you forgot how to crawl and sit. You only want mommy’s finger and you want me to go wherever your little heart desires. You grunt and stick your hand in the air and that means – mommy finger now…and we’re off. As soon as you wake up in the morning you instruct me to go go go and so we go go go.
2. You walked our entire grocery shopping trip at Costco yesterday with a big fat grin b/c you were so proud of yourself. You just held my hand and walked all the aisles. I wish we had video b/c it was the most adorable thing. You def. brought lots of smiles to shopper’s faces.
3. You wave hello all the time now, but not necessarily on cue or when anyone is looking. You will wave to people’s backs, you waved to people sleeping on the plane, and to cars driving by.
4. You love other little girls. You make me walk right over to them and you stick your hand out until they hold it. Ugh melts my heart each time. You are just the sweetest little thing (unless you are having a diva moment which is my next point)
5. You have learned to have a diva fit. You bend your legs like a drama queen and give a beautiful high pitch scream that just sings I love you. You are very lucky you’re cute and these are isolated events.
6. You can do “SO BIG” though you choose when you want to show off this trick.
7. You have taken a liking to Nilla Wafers and feeding mommy and daddy. You are also trying to eat with the spoon and imitate everything we do.
8. You are saying DAH and that means dog, and Ello and that means hello but you only say this when you have a phone in your hand or a phone rings.
9. You are starting to understand things like when you grab a comb you put it to brush your hair, when you have a plastic bag you bring it to where we store plastic bags, you brought the dog bowl to betsy yesterday too. You are so smart.
10. You’re still bfeeding and clearly do not want to stop anytime soon. I initially said 6 mos, then 12 mos, now I’m just leaving it open ended…we’ll know when it is right.
11. You love water, fountains, pools, the sink, just anything water related.
12. You love playing in dirt, but hate the sand. If you get sand on your hands you hold them up to show me with a disgusted look on your face and wait until i wipe it all off (D I V A)
13. You went to the Zoo for the first time and loved it. You mostly loved the people and music but gave some smiles and pointing to the animals.
14. You love to dance whenever music is on and you have 3 solid dance moves…the bounce, the limp arm, and the open/close.
15. You’ve gotten better about your diaper changes, or should i say, we’ve gotten better at figuring out how to change it with you standing, crawling, walking, kicking.
Anyway, I’ll add more if i think of it but these are the main updates. So proud of you!! Ohhh you weighed 21.11lbs at dr. and you were 31″ long- work it supermodel! Love you sooooo much! mwah mwah mwah mwah!

Sosi had an awful night sleep. We’re not sure what it is but we’re going with teething since that usually seems to be the case. Anyway, this morning she woke up at 5am and since I was up with her all night, her awesome daddy got up and let me sleep a little bit more. I came out of the bedroom at 7am to find Elmo on the TV and my little loves like this…heaven.