One Year

Yes, it's true, the girls are ONE!  After dreading them turning one for the whole month, it ended up being a very happy day and I'm so happy we survived the first year.  I posted this on Facebook that I can't believe it's been a year and I can't believe it's only been a year.  I can barely remember them not being part of our family and the first few months are a little foggy and yet the year has flown by and here they are all cute and at such a fun stage right now.  I love their little personalities that show themselves more and more each month.

This is going to be my last monthly post.  I promised myself I would do monthly posts for the first year and I'm very proud of myself for doing it every month.  don't worry I'll still be blogging a lot about the girls and stuff but after this I won't blog these formal monthly updates.  Maybe every few months just give a little update but this will end my formal monthly posts...yay. 

So without further ado...I present the monthly update.

Aria woke up one morning right after she turned 11 months and decided she wanted to crawl on all 4's.  We were totally convinced she would never crawl on all 4's and I was totally fine with that.  Well she literally woke up and crawled a couple steps and by the end of the hour she was pretty much crawling on all 4's and has never looked back.  I LOVE seeing both girls at the same stage and keeping up with each other and they crawl after each other all around the house.

Siena is starting to let go while standing and then she usually just sits down.  No steps yet.

Both wave hello or goodbye but Siena does it most consistently.  It's so cute to see her little hand wave backwards, I love that.

We got some little walkers that the girls can walk behind.  Aria takes a few steps behind it but mostly just likes to play with it.  Siena loves her walker and has a perma grin on her face whenever she gets behind it and walks across the room.  Here is one where Aria decided to take a little ride with Siena.

The both started a new thing when they get tired before their naps or bedtime.  Siena finds a pillow or a blanket, crawls over, lays her head down for about 10 seconds and then gets up and keeps playing.  Aria crawls up to me and wants to be held and then lays her head down on my shoulder, also for only 10 seconds and then gets up and looks around to see what she's missing out on.  They both do it repeatedly until I finally put them to bed.

Still no teeth but I think we are finally really close and I won't be surprised if a couple come in at the same time.  Their gums are swollen and it's been a cranky, drooling, runny noses kind of week.

Both are crawling up the stairs now although Aria is much faster and likes it more then Siena does.  I think Aria is going to be our climber in this family...she loves to be up looking down, and is constantly trying to crawl over the back of the couch.

This week we go in for their year check up and lots of shots...sad.  

UPDATE:  The doctor appt. went well.  They both got 4 shots, and were sooo mad/sad about it and VERY vocal.  Here are their stats:
Siena:
20lbs 11oz - 50%
31 inches - off the charts
Head - 50%
Aria:
18lbs 9oz - 10%
30 inches - 85%
Head - 50%