
13th Month
July 2009
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Susanna's
13th Month (July
'09)
How can our baby be a year old already?!
Susanna had a nice birthday, with Grandma and Grandpa coming for
it—she had a butterfly cake. She didn’t really care for eating
the cake, though. She now is off Mama’s milk and loves cow’s
milk. The first and only kid in the family who will drink cow’s
milk.
We had to practice some tough love early in
the month to break Susanna of her habit of waking up at night.
It just took one night of her screaming for 2 hours in the
middle of the night. Now she sleeps well again.
Susanna took her first steps on the 18th.
She won’t voluntarily stand up and take steps yet, but if we put
her up on her feet and give her something to walk toward, she
will take a few steps before plopping down.
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14th Month
August 2009
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Susanna's
14th Month (August
'09)
2 more teeth this month—one is even a back
tooth. Susanna loves going up the steps—we have to be very
careful that she doesn’t have access to them because she will be
up them in a flash.
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15th Month
September 2009 |
Susanna's
15th Month (September
'09)
2nd—Susanna stood up without pulling up and
walked across the kitchen floor!
The first evening Rachael and Liam had
gymnastics, Susanna just took off walking. She toddled all
around the little waiting room, even stopping and changing
direction without falling. By the end of the month, she has
become a pro!
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16th Month
October 2009
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Susanna's
16th Month (October
'09)
3 new teeth this month—whew!! Ready for
them all to be in!
Susanna was absolutely adorable as a
ladybug for Halloween this year. Right now her favorite foods
seem to be yogurt, cereal bars, and mandarin oranges.
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17th Month
November 2009
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Susanna's
17th Month (November
'09)
Cocoa Puffs and Cheerios are Susanna’s
standard breakfast these days. We have also discovered she has
an affinity for beans—lima, kidney, black—she will eat just
about any of them. She is also beginning to talk more and more.
She has a repertoire of about 30 words that we can recognize.
She will even put some together into a sentence occasionally.
Cereal bars have fallen by the wayside and have been replaced by
Ritz crackers—Susanna goes nuts when she sees the box; goldfish
crackers are a close second. She has come out with a little
devil of a personality, stealing Rachael’s and Liam’s things and
then running away. She loves “kissy face” and sticking her
tongue out at Daddy.
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18th Month
December 2009
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Susanna's
18th Month (December
'09)
Susanna very clearly said the word
“Rachael” early this month. She gets very excited in the
afternoon when we are waiting for Rachael at the bus stop. When
the bus comes around the corner, Susanna will yell “bus, bus!”;
then when Rachael gets off it’s “Rachael!” She also says “Yum”
which we take to mean “Liam”. Susanna definitely knows Santa to
see him. She also loves kissing any doll or stuffed animal she
gets her hands on.
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19th Month
January 2010
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Susanna's
19th Month (January
'10)
Susanna loves playing Ring Around the
Rosie, or “Rosie” as she calls it. Her love of yogurt seems to
have subsided a little, but she will now eat cheese and noodles.
She is quite good about trying whatever the rest of us are
having for supper, especially if Mom forks it into her mouth.
Her vocabulary has just exploded—we have lost count on just how
many words she says.
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20th Month
February 2010
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Susanna's
20th Month (February
'10)
We got a big snow storm this month. Susanna
isn’t quite sure what to do in all that snow.
She really loves playing with an alphabet
toy she got for Christmas—it goes on the fridge and you put
letters into it and it sings a song about the sounds each letter
makes. She will push the button to make the song start, and then
dance around the kitchen.
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 21st Month
March 2010 |
Susanna's
21st Month (March
'10)
Susanna has really taken a shine to her
“Aunt Emmie”, and the feeling is quite mutual. She like when
Aunt Emmie gives her “ponies” (puts her hair in pony tails)
One of Susanna’s favorite activities is to
pull all of the video tapes off the shelf—not only that, but she
pulls the tapes out of the cases, too.
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22nd Month
April 2010 |
Susanna's
22nd Month (April
'10)
Mom, Rachael, and Susanna had a girls’
weekend over Easter, heading to Grandma and Grandpa’s house
while Daddy and Liam had a weekend together. Rachael and
Susanna’s favorite pastime was playing in the water fountain in
Grandma and Grandpa’s back yard. The Easter Bunny even found us
while we were there.
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23rd Month
May 2010 |
Susanna's
23rd Month (May
'10)
Susanna has developed the same love of
books as Rachael and Liam. She even sometimes has the patience
to sit while Mom reads one to her.
We had fun over the past several weeks,
“growing” our own butterflies. We watched them go from
caterpillars—watched them eat and eat and grow bigger and
fatter. Then they spun their cocoons and then we had
butterflies. The kids liked feeding them oranges and watching
them flutter around their “house”. We took them to Grandma and
Grandpa’s house and let them go. One hung around for awhile and
let the kids hold it.
Susanna had her first real haircut this
month—and she did great—she sat still with no tears. When she
was done she danced around the salon announcing to everyone that
she got her hair cut.
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24th Month
June 2010 |
Susanna's
24th Month (June
'10)
Susanna just chats up a storm these
days—she holds her own quite well with the other two. She really
knows how to get the best of Liam—he resorts to tears quite
often when dealing with her.
Susanna loves playing with the Fisher
Price doll house that used to be Rachael’s. She plays quite well
on her own with it, and really seems to have a good imagination
with it. We also pulled out the Barbie dolls, and she likes
playing with those, too, but the doll house is more her speed
right now.
We switched Susanna’s crib to a toddler
bed this month. More often than not, we find her sleeping on the
floor.
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2nd Birthday Cake
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