About time!

I have been super busy lately and completely forgot about blogging! I'm in a writing/sharing/getting thoughts out kind of mood tonight so what better way than to blog! I have been on an emotional roller coaster lately but I blame it ALL on the fact that my husband leaves in just a few days for a 7 month deployment. We have been through a deployment before but it has been a few years and life is quite different now so it is a totally different bunch of feelings involved with this one. Last time we lived in an apartment and had very few ties to the city we lived in so I packed up and moved home with my parents but this time we own a home, have a one year old and so that changes things! I will not be going home this time b/c home is where I am. I have made some really great friends here who just so happen to be my neighbors and one of their husband's is in the same unit as my husband and the other's hubs has been deployed for a few months now but he will be gone a while longer so we will all be going through it together. That is comforting. Blogging will probably happen more frequently over the next few months since night times are the loneliest and are also the best time to blog.

I cannot believe that my baby girl turned one earlier this month! We had 3 parties! One in our house with all of our friends here, one in FL on her actual birthday with all of our family and another one in FL with all of our close friends there! What a way to bring in 1! She is such an amazing little girl <3 I love her more everyday! We are very tight and I'm a little worried that with Patrick gone, we will only get closer which is great for me but I want her to be comfortable with her Daddy and some other people. She is much better than she was the first 4 months of her life but she still doesn't like to be away from me for long nor does she like to stay with anyone when I'm not there other than my Mom and a few friends that also have kids. Having kids to play with distracts her so she has to have babysitters with kids!

Bailey at 1 year and 3 weeks-

-Loves dogs! She "barks" at every dog she sees! Her bark sounds somewhat like an owl "oh oh oh" and she makes the cutest face!

-is walking all over the place and gets very mad when I pick her up to "relocate" her when she's headed somewhere I don't want her to go (like trying to cross the street to play with our neighbor's kids!)

-still loves to eat! She is still eating 3 meals a day plus 2-3 snacks. She is no longer breastfeeding. We completely weaned about 3 weeks before her first birthday! She drinks whole milk at night now.

-is taking baths in the big tub now as of last night! She always fit so well in her baby tub and I was bathing her in our huge tub so it worked but I am redecorating the guest bath and turning it into Bailey's bathroom so we started using the tub in there and packed the baby tub away! Now we need more toys! She loves bath time!

-loves to climb! She tried to climb everything!! I am just waiting for the day she figures out how to get out of her crib. I hope we have a while but at the rate this kid is going it wouldn't surprise me!

-is facing forward in her car seat now! We turned her about a week after her birthday and she is so much happier now!

-is still sleeping 11-13 hours at night! Bedtime is between 8-9 most nights unless we're out late (which isn't often).

-is taking 2 naps a day lasting 1-2 hours. Very recently though her first nap has been very early causing her to take a 3rd nap or a longer 2nd nap and then get cranky around 6:30-7 until bedtime. I have to figure out what's going on with these naps and get back in a routine! She is growing and of course always changing so I'm sure she'll settle into something soon! ..Hopefully!

-has 3 teeth on the bottom with another coming in and 1 on top (a vampire fang as we call it since it's over to the side!) and 3 more coming in. She has to be in some pain with all these teeth trying to cut through!! That may be the problem with naps and crankiness!

-loves wearing shoes and gets quite upset when we take them off of her! She tried to put on everyones shoes if she is barefoot!

-still loves sunglasses and knows how to put them on!

-knows that combs and brushes are for your hair as well as hair bows! It's so fun to watch her "brush" her hair and try to put bows in!

-eats everything with her hands. We have tried spoons some but so far she's not so good at it! She likes trying though. She also isn't very good at eating off a plate. The plate usually ends up on the floor so for now we just eat off the tray or at restaurants we put down a mat or clean the table first.

I am pretty sure I could go on for a while but I should stop!! I updated Bailey's journal and have been typing for a while I have completely missed most of the movie we're watching! It's a movie about deployments so I wasn't too interested in watching it right now anyway.

Until next time... :-)