Happy 1st Birthday Callison!

Our sweet baby girl had her first birthday on Sunday!!  Oh how the year has flown by!  We celebrated her birthday weekend out camping with Grandma and Grandpa Oistad in Seward.  We really lucked out with the weather, it was so gorgeous there with the mountains and the ocean!  Then we came home Sunday afternoon for our friend's birthday party and had a small intimate party for our own birthday girl at Grandma/Grandpa Oistad's house. 

I was so excited to dress her up in this sweet yellow ruffle dress that I found 6 months ago! She looked so pretty.  It was fun to dress her up since most of the time we keep her in play clothes/pants since she loves to crawl and dresses tend to get in her way.  The dinner was delicious as always and Grandma Jan made her the cutest pink teddy bear carrot cake!  Our good friend Angela and her two boys joined us for cake and ice cream and helped us celebrate! We all sang her "Happy Birthday" and loved watching her dig into her first piece of cake.  She was hesitant at first with everyone watching her, but once the commotion dialed down a bit, she dived in and loved it! 

We had her one year well-baby checkup yesterday and she weighed in at 15lbs 6oz, 28 inches for height and 44.5cm for head circumference.  Doctor P noted she was "petite but proportionate" and that her growth and development was right on track.  She continues to stay right along the 3% growth curve she has been on most of her life.  Our little Miss Petite.  We tease that since she is so small that when she starts walking (which we expect to be any week now) she will look like a 6 month genius baby! hahahaha.  We are so in love with our Callie girl. 

She is doing so great on all fronts, but she still gets up 1-2 times in the night to nurse.  We were letting her get away with it becuase she was so tiny and wanted her to eat as much as possible, but her doc encouraged us to try to get her to sleep through the night since she really was only nursing for comfort not hunger during those hours.  Her room is right next to her brother's so we have been hesistant to let her cry it out for fear of waking him up two and then having TWO kids to deal with in the middle of the night. Wish us luck. The first few weeks should be interesting to say the least!

Favorite words: "ma ma ma", "da da da," "go!" and "uh oh."
Favorite foods: any table foods. chicken, rice, brocolli, salmon, porridge, cherrios. She really doesn't like baby food anymore. 
Favorite activity: anything Noah is doing.  :)

After much angst, I am sorry to announce to anyone who follows this blog, that this may be my last post or one of the last.  I just don't have the time to work on it anymore and when I do get a free moment after both kids are in bed, pretty much the LAST thing I want to do is sit in front of the computer since I do that all day for work. I am gonna print all these blog entries into a photo book and then call it good. I plan to continue writing about our kids in annual photo/year books so I can print them out at the end of each year, it just won't be available online.  I'll try to do periodic facebook updates to share a few favorite pics with family and friends here and there! Thanks for checking in with our little family!