Britynn's first year

I can't believe that a year ago we were welcoming our new little baby girl into the world! She has truly brought so much joy into our loves! I am so thankful to be her mother and for all that she has taught me over the past year. She and I have very much in common, My mom is always telling how much we are alike and it is not just the looks. Britynn is truly an angel, she has always been such a lovely little girl, loves to be hugged and snuggled. I have been taking a picture of her each month so that I can see how she has changed over the past year, unfortunately we don't have a one month photo.

2 weeks
Loving the nursing thing, and pretty much sleeping all the time
you went to Virginia beach and to Williams burg.

2 months

Started to love looking at peoples faces, started tracking very well and holding your head up. Loves books especially contrast books!

3 months
Getting really good at grabbing things to put into her mouth, everything was in you mouth by this age! We went to Virginia beach again during this month.

4 months

Loves to grab faces and try to eat them. Waking up once in the night. On September 26Th you rolled from you back onto your belly all by your self for the first time!

5 months
Introduced rice cereal, not so sure about it yet. Started saying Mama. We moved up to Fort Drum during this time, visited the Washington DC Temple along the way.

6 month
Now loves Rice cereal and applesauce. Sitting up all by herself. Making motor sounds. We moved to Arizona this month and you meet your cousins Nixen and Maycee for the first time.

7 months

Discovered your ears. Started clapping your hands and when we asked you to clap for us you were always happy to dot it.

8 months
All sorts of new foods to discover now. Loves Green Beans, Carrots, Squash, Sweet potatoes, Peaches and Pears. You were full on crawling by now. Daddy came to visit for a month and you started saying "Dada."

9 months
Sleeping through the night started becoming a thing of the past, with you cutting so many teeth! This is when you started saying the word "What". You started pulling yourself up to standing position. I left you with Aunt Shanna for about 6 days so that I could go visit Daddy.

10 months
You got your first ear infection. You really started becoming more social. Waving o people and Blowing kisses. You discovered your tongue and Belly. We went to Freestone for your first ride on the train.

11 months

You recently started sleeping wonderfully lately. You have one nap a day for about five hours and you would still sleep through the night! You are starting to love playing outside and are now Crawling all the way to the top of the stairs! We are sure lucky that there are a lot of kids around to inform us when this happens. The kids are so helpful and follow up right behind her. So far she hasn't had a bad fall.

I can't believe our little B is now ONE Year old!! I really have been feeling like things have been happening so fast lately. Maybe it has something to do with the constant transition we have been in for the past two years? Little Britters is still not walking independently, but she is now walking along things alot more. She is very good at imitating, she will click her tongue if you do it and she will wave and blow kisses when someone else is doing it to her. She is such a social little girl, always has been easy going. She started waving at all the people in church one Sunday as they were leaving gospel doctrine class. She loves to clap her hands, dance to music, splash really really hard in the bathtub (and will throw a fit if you try to get her out). She has quite a few words in her little vocabulary: She can say- No No, Hi, Momma, Bottle, Daddy, What, Uh Oh, Belly, Ear, What, All Done and is really trying to say I love you! She can say the the "Love" part pretty good. She knows where her belly is and her feet, sometimes she will touch her head when I ask her where it is. The cutest thing that she has recently started doing, is joining in laughter when everyone else is doing it!!! She has the sweetest little giggle!! She loves her brother and sister and lights up every morning that she sees them and gets to play. She doesn't like to sit in the grass, (especially if she doesn't have long enough pants to cover her legs) She will hold her legs up off the grass if that is the case. She loves stuffed animals of any kind and will just melt right into them. She is really the happiest baby I have ever seen, always has a smile on her face even when she is sick. We all say that she has an award winning smile!!