Happy 1st Birthday 

Ailish Sinead! 

she LOVES driving the boys cars around, so now she has her very own pink one!

Sweet little A, how are you a year old already? You are such a sweetheart. With a ready smile and happy face. You love to kiss and hug and cuddle. You nod 'yes' and 'no' in the cutest way. You are pulling up and standing and walking along everything - and have been for a couple months. Still not quite standing on your own or attempting to walk solo yet. My guess is another month or so. 

You climb up steps well and quick. You haven't attempted down at all, except for the one time you fell, now you are perfectly happy to stay away from too closet to the edge and you haven't fallen since!

You are quite the talker. So many times I will say something to you and it sounds just like you answer me with an appropriate answer or sound. You have many 'words', though much beyond 'Da' are more sounds then anything. Some words I think you have mimicked us saying are: bath, diaper, yes, okay, go, bottle, milk...... and so many more.

You are still napping twice a day, an hour-two in the morning and a good hour and a half in the afternoon. You are sleeping about 7-7 overnight and we have recently given up any and all night bottles, besides one as you go to bed. We also took the paci away (from everyone at the same time!) but you are doing fine without it. Your other siblings miss it more ;-)

You are still getting around 4 bottles a day, that you love. And you are pretty much eating whatever we are eating, unless it's too spicy, then it's whatever I can find! I think concentrated quantities of nuts is about the only thing you haven't had much of, everything else you love and eat. You especially love bananas and cheese. 

You are much loved by all your brothers and sister. They play pretty well with you and you love trying to keep up with them.

Love you Ailish!

This is her hair at 1 year..... what do you think.... curls coming in? Any chance of a little red-hair? It's still pretty light, I see a little red every now and then, but it'll probably be blond, my guess is blonder then Alannah. And Alannah was well past a year before we knew she had curls.... so we'll see!