13 months! Yikes!

Wow! I can't believe it's already been a month since Maelie turned one (and since I last posted)! We spent part of today at the zoo with my family. It was fun!

Here are some recent pics of cutie Maelie...

Celebrating her daddy's birthday! 

 

 Peace out, yo!

Maelie enjoyed "swimming" at the new pool at the Orem rec center. 

I LOVE that cute face and that crazy hair!!! 

This is one of the only ways to get Maelie to sit still for longer than 10 seconds. She loves watching shows (Dora or Bubble Guppies) with her sister!

Maelie's boy cousins at the zoo today! 

 Cheesy Hannah and toothless Katelyn. Cuties!

Beautiful young ladies! 

Jana and crazy eyes. :) 

A selfie with my cute baby! 

My peeps at the new exhibit. 

Yay! The giraffes!

Classic lion drinking fountain! 

Giddy-up, lion!

And now 13 things about Maelie...

1- At her one-year Well Child Check, Maelie weighed 18 1/2 pounds (27th percentile), was 30 inches long (76th percentile), and continued to have a huge noggin (98th percentile). :)

2- Maelie has the best fake laugh ever!

3- Maelie loves to look at books and to have them read to her.

4- During naptime Maelie likes to throw her binkie on the floor and then cry and get mad that she can't reach her binkie! Silly girl!

5- Maelie's favorite noise to make is spitting repeatedly. It seems especially loud in church.

6- Maelie will rarely eat baby food anymore. Right now her favorite things to eat are Cheerios and lots of bananas! She finally got her 5th tooth.

7- Maelie loves finger plays (especially 5 Little Ducks & 5 Little Monkeys), and she knows how do to many of the actions.

8- Maelie says "Momma," "Dadda," "Hannah," and "Aw Gaw" (all gone) regularly. And she also says things like "book," "hi," and "dat" (that) when she feels like it. Last night she was playing with a toy car and made some "vroom" sounds. Super cute! She also sign "all gone" all the time and seems to think it also means "more." :)

9- Lately Maelie's favorite game to play is to stand up behind me while I'm sitting on the floor and then walk from side to side of me and laugh hysterically when I look at her.

10- Maelie loves to sing and dance like her sister. She has figured out how to push the buttons on Hannah's Dora mic in order to amplify her voice. :)

11- Maelie took 2 unassisted steps about a week-and-a-half ago, but she has yet to repeat that. She just walks around all over the place while holding on to things. And she loves to stand without holding onto anything and then swing her arms back and forth.

12- Maelie loves her daddy, but she is still a huge momma's girl.

13- Maelie loves to copy everything we do. She's especially good (and cute) at folding her arms for a prayer.


Well, that's my little Maelie! We love her to pieces!!!