Seriously, a year has passed? How did that happen?
The first three months went by in a haze. Then our little girl started to morph into a little person. By 6 months she was sitting up and interacting with us and the dogs. Then we blinked and it was 11 months and our BG started walking. Now it's been a year!
Here are BG's stats from her 12 month checkup:
Height: 29.5 in/63 percentile
Weight: 20.19lbs/35 percentile (she's always been small, our goal after 1 year was to be above 20 pounds, she did it!)
Head Circumference: 69th percentile
Calais is now officially a "toddler" gone our the days of our "baby". She will become a "child" when she turns 4.
We recently introduced Calais to moo milk. All seemed well at first. She was taking to her milk and her sippy cups. But we noticed she wasn't acting happy and seemed to get cranky a lot easier. She was also super gassy (burps and toots). Joe was playing with her one afternoon and she just started bawling. She wasn't extremely unconsoulable, but she definitley wasn't our happy girl! We ended up calling the on call doctor that night and scheduled an appointment for the following day. I did a bunch of research that evening and narrowed it down to that Calais is either lactose intolerant (just like her dad!) or she is allergic to the protein in milk. We also started thinking about the previous week and realized that she had a whole lot more poops than normal. She normally has 1 1x a day, but now she was going at least 3 sometimes 4 a day! When we met with Dr. Pham (our family doctor) he confirmed that she probably has some sort of intolerance of moo milk.
So.....Calais is back on mommy milk/formula for two weeks...then we will start her back SLOWLY on moo milk. If she is acting just as cranky/gassy etc. then we will start her on either goat's milk or soy milk.
Calais has also developed these small red dots on her belly and back. So we are calling her doc again in the morning to see what's up with those. She doesn't seem to be too bothered by them, so hopefully they are nothing too serious. I'm sure we will be back at the doctor for him to check them out!
Other than that, our little BG is becoming quite the little person! She loves books, loves to be outside, loves her baths. Lately she likes to be held more, so that's nice (especially since normally all she would rather be doing is walking). Sleeping is still going well. We put her down around 7 pm, and she'll sleep at least 12 hours, waking up sometime after 7. She naps twice a day, but I have a feeling we will be giving up that second nap anytime soon!
I always say I'll get better on blogging, but really....time is short :) With working full-time and being a mommy, in my free-time I spend it cleaning, making Calais' food and trying to get us to eat more local and healthier foods, so that doesn't leave much time for anything else! So enjoy the posts when you get them!
