1 Year Pics

So we finally got around to getting Addison's 1 year old pics. Here are just a few of our favorites. Addison has grown SOOOO much from her tiny little baby days. I spend most days just looking at her and seeing a little girl now instead of a baby. She gets cuter and cuter as the days go by and I love just watching her personality develop even more.

Nowadays she is saying LOTS. However, none of us understand what exactly it is she is saying. She speaks in her own little language and often while she's off playing by herself. She has a great little imagination and I am grateful for that. She LOVES to read. She'd probably rather do that than play with toys even. A few weeks ago we went to the library for story time and while I was perusing through books, she had grabbed one and sat down to read it. She was just jabbering away to herself quite happily. But when the librarian came out to watch her and comment on her amazing reading skills, she immediately jumped up, threw the book down and ran to find me. She must have thought she was getting in trouble or something.

Some of her other favorite toys to play with are baby dolls and balls. And I think I've even heard her say the words as she plays with them. She's also into carrying a purse around on her arm while she's holding her hand in the air to keep it from falling off. She's even learning how to jabber into a phone. She turns all of her toys into phones as well and holds them to her cheek and jabbers away. So, with a purse and a phone, it won't be too much longer before she's asking me to take her to the mall! I guess she better start looking for a job to fund all of those mall excursions!

Addison is still such an easy going baby and just plays happily by herself. Although she is more apt to do it when other kids are around. When it's just me and her, she'd rather just follow me around everywhere and be right on my tail. She can be playing quite well in another room but the minute I stand up and go somewhere she hears me and jumps up and follows me so quickly. I'm amazed at how in tune she is....I've even tried sneaking by but somehow she still hears me.

So far we are doing pretty good on our signs. However, she does get frustrated with not knowing how to communicate with me. That usually leaves her grunting and whining at me while I try to teach her "her words" to use instead. Hopefully soon we'll start learning more communication skills with each other.

She is very much a Mommy's girl - can you blame her? We spend most days together after all! But she does get excited to play/wrestle with Daddy when he comes home from work. She does well with other people but does usually take a few seconds to warm up to them. She's still MUCH better than I was at her age. I was horribly shy growing up. I'm just glad she's not as much.

Overall, we still LOVE having her as part of our family and couldn't imagine life without her. She is so adorable and so entertaining to watch.