Two weeks from now, you will be 1 year old! That's crazy! This year has gone by sooooo fast and you are growing into such a fun little person. I don't even remember what you were like as a newborn because you are so big and active now. Here are some things about you at almost-1-year-old:
-Often, you reach for me and say "mama." It's probably just a coincidence since it's a little early for your first word, but I like to think that you are already addressing me :-)
-When GuhGaw and JieJie climb into their beds at bedtime, you wave bye to them and make a kissing noise with your mouth.
-You have four teeth now.
-When you are happy and excited, you scream at ear-shattering decibels.
-You still looooooove being tickled!
-You think it's hysterical when you burp or sneeze and then try to make yourself burp and sneeze again, but you actually just make a growling sound.
-You love to eat and get soooo impatient when you see your food while you are waiting to be fed. You start whimpering, fidgeting in your high chair and leaning forward frantically. Dude, chill!
-You love Mum-Mums and snack puffs and can easily feed them to yourself. I have to be careful how many puffs I pour onto your high chair tray, though, because you will stuff all of them in your mouth at once if I'm not watching you.
-Speaking of Mum-Mums and puffs, you get really excited when I'm carrying you and we walk past the snack cabinet where we keep them. You point to them and ask for them by urgently saying, "Ungh ungh ungh!"
-You like opening your dresser drawers, pulling all of your clothes, sheets and blankets out and throwing them onto the floor. Actually, you love pulling anything--toys out of your toy box, books out of your bookshelf, tissues out of the tissue box--and throwing it onto the floor. You embrace not order but chaos--if I put plastic coins in your piggy bank, you immediately take them out and scatter them around your room; if I put all of your picnic basket toys inside the basket, you pull them all out; if there are toys and books on the coffee table, you will walk around it and methodically throw everything onto the floor. Cleaning up after you is pretty pointless, as you destroy the room as soon as I straighten it up!
-Like GuhGaw and JieJie when they were babies, you don't like wearing socks and pull them off every chance you get.
-You already know how to crawl up stairs. Uh-oh.
-The other day, you managed to push the sling bookshelf in your room--which was full of books, by the way--all the way from the wall to the middle of the room. You can also do pull-ups on the side of your crib, pulling all of your body weight up with your arms while you lift your feet in the air. Well, hello there, baby Hercules.
-You are so adorable when you flop onto your belly and just lay there contentedly kicking your feet.
-You are also adorable when I say "No no no!" and you respond by shaking your head no and smiling.
-You are especially adorable now that you have started posing for pictures. When I say, "Say cheese!", you tilt your head up, smile and scrunch up your face like this:
-Today while eating, you insisted on holding your spoon and feeding yourself. Agh! Stop trying to grow up so fast!
Love,
Mom
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