The Hopewell's!!!: Happy 1st Birthday Caroline Taylor!!!

Friday, September 23rd was Caroline's 1 year birthday. We have a 1 year old!!! Officially a toddler. No more calling her an infant, or waiting in the infant area at the doctors office. No more buying formula or jar baby food. Walking the baby isle at HEB to just get diapers made me a little sad yesterday. Little things like that get to me. I have to say though... not buying $60 worth of formula every grocery trip is a little nice. I can't believe a year ago I was snuggled down in my hospital room with my sweet baby girl. Everyone was over the moon with joy and excitement. How can this tiny little creature bring so much love? It blows my mind every time I look at her.

With us celebrating C's birthday last weekend, her actual birthday was low key and pretty much a normal day. I fixed her scrambled egg and toast for breakfast. For lunch she had chicken fries, shells n cheese and sweet peas. We went to the doctor for her 1 year well check. Boo for the 4 shots!! Ruined her day, so by the time we got home she was a drama queen until bed time. That was fun! Here are the stats:

Length: 30.32"
Weight: 19 lb 8.5 oz. (I was worried she may be a little too slim but the doctor said she is perfect)
Head circumference: 18.11"
Size 3 diapers, gonna be that for a little while longer I think!!
Wears size 12 month clothing
She is on 100% whole milk and loving it!!
Eats everything we eat! Favorites are yogurt, pizza, grilled cheese, sweet peas, green beans, broccoli, hummus (yes I did just say hummus), gold fish, pita chips, potatoes, all pasta and pasta salads, chicken, she had some pulled pork at her birthday party and loved it, scrambled eggs, and I could go on and on.

When I first started introducing table foods to Caroline I vowed I was going to establish a non picky eater and I think we are doing good so far. There's nothing she won't eat. She is starting to get to the point of inspection when I put something new in front of her but she always opens that mouth!

Words she is saying: dada, dadee, ma, mama, tendee (Kenzie, my moms dog), ba (ball), da (dog) and a bunch of other jibberish that makes perfect sense to her!!

This weekend was a low key weekend and we just enjoyed our Birthday girl! Saturday we went to Scott's cousins football game up at the Cinco Ranch football fields, came home and watched a heartbreaking loss with our Aggie's. Sunday we tried out a brand new church and absolutely LOVED it!! I think we may have found a winner, finally! I was a little worried about leaving Caroline in the nursery, as she's been having some separation anxiety issues. Once she saw all the other 1 year olds she was wiggling to get out of my arms and never looked back!! :) Below are some pictures I snapped at the football game of our little toddler!!