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12 Months of Anna

Monday, April 6th, 2009 | Anna | 4 Comments

Yesterday was Anna’s 1st birthday.  We celebrated with a small gathering of my family at our house.  The star was a little overwhelmed and mostly stared at us all while we waited for her to dig into her strawberry cupcake and whipped cream frosting.  Next year I think she’ll be a little more excited…

I’m working on a post reflecting on a year of motherhood, but for now I wanted to post some pictures to reflect on Anna’s year.  I printed out these photos and put them out for everyone to see at the party how much Anna has changed over the past year.  It’s pretty amazing!

Anna’s 1st day of life was captured by her dad (I was barely able to hold the camera), but even then she was pretty cute:

By May she had grown a little and I captured her yawning on her playmat:

In June we stuffed her into a laundry basket full of sheets and she smiled nonetheless:

July brought the ability to be on her tummy and not scream for a few minutes (very small babies hate being on their tummies):

In August I put her in a sweet little dress and propped her up on the futon with the help of her blocks:

September was nice and cool and so gave me the opportunity to try out a new coat and the hat we got from Rena (the hat doesn’t fit anymore sadly…):

October brought us to trying out solid food, which turned out to be pretty messy:

For Anna’s first Halloween I couldn’t resist stuffing her into a pink caterpillar costume:

By November Anna could sit up by herself pretty well and did so very nicely for this picture:

December brought multiple Christmas outfits; my favorite being this red corduroy dress with the fake fur trim:

At 9 months most doctors will tell you that you can give the baby finger foods and of course Anna did this with great gusto, but sometimes she missed her mouth:

In February I took Anna for her first pool swim and she got really excited about it before we even left the locker room:

March had a lot of warm days and very little snow, so we spent a lot of time at the park swinging, which is one of Anna’s favorite things:

Since she loves swinging so much we took her to the park last Thursday and she was again overjoyed:

When she’s at home, Anna’s favorite activity is climbing into and on top of anything and everything.  This includes into the ottoman that we use to store her toys in:

Don’t worry, after I laughed for a while I put down the camera and helped her out, but really, she didn’t seem to mind.

What an amazing transition from the small sleepy baby who could do nothing but cry, sleep, eat and poop to the little girl we have now.  What a difference a year makes!