1 Year Pictures

My neighbor took some cute pictures of Penelope in her birthday outfit.  For some reason, she was a stone face, even with Bridgette and I dancing and singing with tambourines!  We still got some cute Penny smirks though.

I love this one!

 Standing all by herself.

Finally a few smiles!

 

 Crawling as fast as she can to me.

 I love these sweet chubby cheeks!

At her 12 month checkup, Penny was 28.5 inches- 25%ile and 18#- 15%ile.  She is definitely slimming down with all this crawling around.  She is very close to walking and takes 3-4 steps before she falls.  She is very good at telling you what she wants, especially with the start of her chubby finger-
pointing.  She loves to eat, take baths and swing.  She laughs when she burps and blows raspberries at you (all day long!).  She's a crappy sleeper and I'm beginning to think she always will be.  She snuggles anything remotely soft and loves her blankets, stuffed animals and baby touch and feel books (snuggles dog fur...)

It's fun to see how different Penelope and Bridgette are even though they look almost exactly alike.  Here's the proof:

Bridgette at 1 year