I was finally able to go to the doctor and do Sarah's 12 month checkup and get her stats. She was sick for her appointment in February so I had to postpone it until this week. She is doing really well!
Weight: 19 lbs 10%
Height: 29 inches 31%
Head: 18 inches 60%
I was so happy to see her percentiles go up in all three areas! She was at 5% for weight and 17% for height at 9 months so she is doing great! She is not quite walking yet, which is still fine with me. She will take one step here and there and she walks along furniture just great. She can turn around to go down the stairs or get down from the couch by herself. She is really quite the talker too. A lot of the time she will go on for 5 minutes straight just jabbering in baby talk. It is pretty cute and she really seems like she thinks she is saying something. She also knows a lot of real words. She especially likes the animal names and sounds. She will say meow for cat and moo for cow. She knows about 12 or 13 signs now and she uses those as much as her verbal language.
Much to my dismay she hasn't taken to milk very well so I am still breastfeeding. I asked the doctor what to do about it and he said just to keep trying. Great. So helpful. I reintroduced milk this week after taking a couple weeks off and she seems to like it a bit more than she did before so I am hopeful that I can stop breastfeeding soon. Other than milk she is a very good eater. She loves noodles in any form, cheese, crackers-especially graham- and chips, and she is starting to like apples, although she doesn't actually swallow much of it when she eats a slice of apple. She loves pancakes, cinnamon toast and eggs as well as dry cereal so breakfast is easy. She really is a good little eater.
Sarah is my cuddler. She will usually give hugs and kisses when we ask her. She is daddy's little girl. She just lights up when he is around and she loves to see pictures of him when he's not around. She loves to sit on his lap and just be with him. She also adores Isaac. Everything he does is hilarious to her. They are really cute together. Isaac is usually good to play with her or read her a book. She loves to read books! She loves to point to the animals that she knows and turn the pages. Pulling the books off our bookshelves is one of her favorite pastimes as well and I end up picking up the books 4-5 times a day most days.
Sarah is a great sleeper. She takes two naps a day and they are usually 1-2 hours each and she sleeps from 7:30 pm to 7:00 or 7:30 am most days. I am so glad to have a good sleeper this time around!
Sarah's hair was finally long enough for a ponytail this week but she ripped it out about 10 minutes after I put it in. She pretty much won't leave a headband in either but I'm going to keep trying.
Love that girl!~
Will was front and center for his parts of the show which was great for picture taking. 
I told her to smile and look like she was enjoying herself, but this was mostly what we got from Savannah. 
