1 year stats and random pictures

We survived the first year. This picture was taken the day after Grace's birthday when we celebrated with Justin's parents in Utah. This gift is from my mom and dad. She loved opening presents this year. It seems like she opened presents for 5 days straight and was completely spoiled by loving family members.

Grace had her one year check up last week and she weighs 25.2 lbs and is 31.75 inches long. She's in the 98th percentile for both. She had to get 3 shots this time, one of them being the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine which was very painful and left her with a nasty bruise on her thigh and a little fever. She was doing much better after a couple days.

Here are a few of the things she likes and what she's been up to lately:

• She will only eat table food now, no more baby food for her.
• She loves scrambled eggs, bananas, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (not necessarily together though).
• She says 'mama' 'dada' and 'bahbah' very clearly and distinguishes who/what they are
• She loves attention and making people laugh. She makes goofy faces until somebody laughs at her.
• She loves music and will sing along and has recently started to dance to music as well.
• She loves books and to be read to. She will pick up anything that looks like a book (dvd case, menu, etc.) and start "reading" aloud - basically babbling in her own language - as she points to things on the pages.
• She has the most contagious laugh
• She loves giving hugs and kisses

Now, some random pictures:

While I was watching President Bush's farewell speech Grace was just chillin against the couch. I had to take a picture.

Daddy giving a mani and pedi. He's the only one she'll let cut her nails.

The other night she was so cuddly with Justin that I had to snap a picture (actually about 6) of this sweet moment.