Willow had her 1 year doc appt today.  We forgot to get her pic this morning and she's been sleeping since we came back from her appt.  So we'll have to do it later.  She was at 45% for weight(19# 6.6oz)  25% on head circum. (17.32'") 35% length (28.75").  Doc said she's doing good.  Not anemic and happy that she is self feeding and using a sippy.  Our next challenge is getting rid of the bottles and using whole milk. Doc said she should be using 2-4 words and knowing what they mean, I think we may be behind on that but we are trying.  Overall I think she's doing good.

Happy First Birthday Willow pants ( AKA Nugget)  I can't believe it's been a whole year!! (officially at 5:34pm) 
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Today was the big party day at our house.  We had cake and ice cream and some finger foods, nothing super fancy.  There were way more people that showed up then we ever expected. Thank you to all of you who did. Willow did great. She was the star of the show and had a blast wandering around and playing with the other kids that showed up . She was exhausted after the party was over but as I type this she is up and at it again.  After her little nap we were eating supper and she actually waved at us, gotta write that down in her calendar. She didn't really smoosh up her cake, I had to help her get into it but she did get it on her hands and ate a little of it.  We had big surprises for the grandmas. We had first professional pics taken and then had them and a lot of Willow's other pics put on a digital frame for them.  My mom was in tears (not surprising if you know my mom )

today is party day!!!  
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There will be a bigger post later after the festivities. Stay tuned

52 weeks !!!!! In just a couple days I will have a ONE year old! That does not seem possible.  We are working on getting things together for her party .  We spent July 4th very very low key, it was over 100 degrees ( one of many many days that it reached that hot).  So we stayed in and kept cool.