Clara at One Year

 Weight: 23 lbs. 13 oz. (85th percentile)  Starting to thin out just a tad now that she's a speed crawler it seems.

Length: 31.5" (98th percentile)  In other words, it's pretty darn hard to find a 12 mo. white female baby any taller than Clara!

What she can do: She can take two steps together, put objects into a container and take them back out, point, repeat sounds, throw a ball (kind of), run little cars around the floor, and use some limited sign language.



What she likes: She likes turning the pages of her books, throwing things on the ground, strawberries, melon, frosting, cheese, and most foods she tries, the remote, her outdoor swing, walking while holding our hands, her friends, and "talking" a lot.

Sleep: She sleeps through the night except when she's sick.  This month I invented my own sleep training method where I offered her a sippy cup of warm milk when she woke up at night rather than nursing.  She was mad, but eventually drank some.  Then, when I put her back in her crib she would cry but soon fall asleep because there was no hunger to fuel her crying (unlike the Ferber method where you don't feed the baby or pick her up).  After a few nights she quit waking up, just like that.  It was never the food that she needed, she just liked the comfort of nursing in the night.  That was a happy success.  Unfortunately she's been sick lately, so she wakes up some and I end up rocking her back to sleep.  It's a bummer to be awake at 2am, but it's sweet to rock a baby back to sleep.

Other information:  Overall, she is a happy, fun, curious baby who likes to be on the go!