Happy "One Year"!

So I realize that Layla is really 14 months today, but her adjusted age is 1 year! One year ago today was my due date! It's crazy to think that she should only be just turning a year when now her birthday seems like so long ago! She's grown so much in the past 14 months and we love her more every day (yep, even on bad days:D). Here are some of the basic things she's doing now. I haven't filled her baby book out since she was maybe a few months, so here's her baby book update:-). Oh, and she goes in for a weight check on Thursday so I'll know her weight then. Hopefully she's gained lots of (or at least some) weight!

She walks maybe 50% of the time and crawls the rest. She'll often walk and then start crawling once she falls down. She is starting to learn to listen better to instructions ("hand me Dolly" "give Elvis his toy"--VERY simple instructions). And the words that she says that we're pretty sure she knows what she's saying are: Mama, Dada, Bye-bye "ba-bye", ball, book "bo", baby "baybay", uh-oh, baba (her sippy), more "mo"...I think that's it. Every once in awhile I hear a "hi" when I say it to her. Of course sometimes she makes some of the same sounds while just blabbering too so it's hard to really know what she's saying:-). She likes to play with her Little Peoples sets (especially if they make lots of noises), she still enjoys her laugh and learn kitchen, she loves books, balls (although she mainly just gets excited about seeing them--she doesn't play with them real long), her brother Elvis, and little objects like her monkeys in a barrell and some little leap frogs--she enjoys putting the little things in and out of containers. She still naps twice a day--about an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon--if we're really lucky, one of those naps is an hour and a half. She has just never been a long napper, but I'll gladly take long nights over long naps (unless I could have both:D)! Her bedtime is about 7:30/8 and she wakes up at 8/8:30. I don't think she'll be ready to drop her morning nap for awhile. I know that a lot of kids drop it around a year, but she'd probably still only sleep an hour in the afternoon and by 10 she's ready for her nap so I think it'd be a major struggle to keep her up until after lunch every day! She still enjoys eating and will eat most foods, but everyonce in awhile (like this week) she doesn't want to eat all that much (I told her she has her weight check on Thursday and needs to gain weight by then, but she just doesn't listen:D). Well, I think that's about it for her update! I love watching her grow and learn and am excited to have her keep learning new things (not that I want to wish her life away or anything, but I think it will be nice when she can actually communicate with me in sentences!).

I took this video this morning b/c the kids were giggling so much with eachother for quite awhile. It's funny to watch them make each other laugh by barely doing anything!

I knew they were being too quiet this morning. This is what I found them doing...(I think Elv didn't like it b/c some of his toys are buried in that pile:D)