Night Owl - A FUN Business!

Night Owl is having a giveaway of a dress or hoodie.  

She is VERY creative and makes great things!  

Check out her blog and her website to see what she has!

PS - I've been tempted TWICE in buying an adorable dress from her and by the time I decided I wanted it, the dress was already spoken for (this was for 2 different dresses).

http://www.nightowlclothing.com/

Edyn's First Tooth!

I thought Strummer was late in getting teeth! Edyn has her brother beat on the lateness! Strummer was 9 months, Edyn was 13 months!

I can now say that Edyn is no longer toothless! On April 16th we (Edyn and I) were in Des Moines and we were going to be meeting up with Holly and Sara to go to Nicole's Baby Shower (Do these names sound familer? Check out the post of Strummer's first tooth)

Holly and Brayden happened to be in DSM at Babies R Us which is where we were heading! (I couldn't pass up a buy 1, get one free on clearance items).  Moving on, we were in the store and while I was looking at t-shirts for Strummer, Holly was entertaining the kids, then she says, Manda - I think Edyn has a tooth! I said - really? I haven't seen anything pop up yet.  Then she says, I can feel it! So, I went over to my little girl's mouth - and behold - a tooth had indeed popped up!

She was wasn't acting that extra cranky - just slightly droolly, and slightly cranky!

So, once again, THANKS to Holly for finding my child's first tooth!!! :o)

Happy Girl in a Swing

I think her odd look is b/c we were at Pizza Ranch
and she didn't have any food yet!
(If you zoom up on the pic, you can see her tooth!) 

Edyn's 1 Year Appointment

Edyn loved playing the the shape slider toy

She also loved taking the legos from the container to the  bucket

Playing and waiting for Dr. Parsons

Edyn continues on being petite.  Which perfectly fine.  She was born pretty small, so maybe she'll just stay on the smaller side.  Time will only tell.  I can tell you that she is ALMOST exactly 2 lbs and 2 inches smaller than what Strummer was at his 1-year appointment.  Of course, Strummer was also on the smaller/average side at his 1-year too! 

Here are Edyn's Stats

Her weight went from 34th percentile at birth to 6th percentile

Her height went from 58th percentile at birth to 25th percentile at 1 year

Here is how Edyn grew in the past year!

Weight

Birth: 7 lbs 1 oz (34%)

2 Months: 10 lbs 12 oz (50%)

4 Months:  13 lbs 10 oz (54%)

6 Months:  16 lbs 0 oz (53%)

9 Months:  16 lbs 9 oz (14%) 

12 Months: 17 lbs 11 oz (6%) 

Height

Birth:  19-1/2 inches (58%)

2 Months:  22-1/2 inches (67%)

4 Months:  25-1/4 inches (91%)

6 Months:  26 inches (71%)

9 Months:  27 inches (47%)

12 Months: 28 inches (25%)

What Edyn Can do at 1 YEAR OLD!

***Yes, Edyn is 14 months old today - and Yes, I am FINALLY finishing her 1-year post***
(I wrote most of this at end of March) 

Here is a rundown of all of Edyn's Accomplishments in the past year!! 

It's so true the kids grow up so fast!

What She Can Say

She's super-duper talk-a-tive! I think it helps that Edyn has a non-stop talking brother! 

*Mama

*Dada

*Bo (Brother)

*Osco (Bosco - our dog)

*Hi

*Hey

*Thank You

*Uh-Oh

*Wow
*Crack-Crack (Cracker)
*Nilk (Milk)

Words She Understands

*Edyn

*Strummer

*Brother

*Mommy

*Daddy

*Bosco

*Food

*More

*No

*Eat

*Drink

*All Done

*Hi/Bye

*Mindy

*Jim

*Mischa

Signing

I've been working on it with her.  However, I wasn't heavily using it like I did for her brother.  So, she really doesn't sign anything yet.  

FOOD!
She may be tiny and she may not have any teeth, but Edyn LOVES to eat! She tries to eat just about everything. She eats just about anything we give her.  Including onions, jalepanos, tomatos, peaches, triscuits, bread (she LOVES 100% whole wheat bread), mini wheats, cheese, the list goes on...
There are a few things she doesn't eat to often: She does not like eating bananas unless they are completely mushed up.  She refused to eat them whole. 
We're (I'm) limiting her on the sweets that she eats.  She will get chocolate or some other type of sweet on a VERY limited basis.  I also rarely give her juice.  After learning with Strummer on how much he LOVES juice (and thinking back to how much I gave it to him), I decided for Edyn that she will get juice on more of a special occasion basis. I'm hoping she won't have a juice-dependence a year from now! 

Mobility and Other Neat Things

*Crawling ~ 9 months

*Pull To Stand ~ 10 months

*Pushing objects and Walking ~ 10 months

*Climbing up the stairs - 12 month

*Standing On Own ~ 11 months

*Taking Steps ~ 12 months (1st week)

*Walking (Full Time) ~ 13 months (1st week)

*Standing up on her from sitting (w/out holding on to something) ~ 12 months 

*Waves

*High 5s

*Sticks out her tongue

*Claps 
*Does 'So Big'

Things She Uses

*Sippy Cups (only with a straw - rarely with anything else ) 

*Plates, Bowls

*Silverware - Sometimes

*Her thumb - typically when she's upset or super tired (it has been less and less as she gets older) 

Things She Loves!

*Her Family

*Bosco

*Books

*MUSIC 

~Edyn LOVES to groove and listen to music! 

~She'll also take notice of certain theme songs 

*Being outside

~All though, not a huge fan of the grass yet

*Playing piano

*'Playing' the guitar

*Taking photos (getting her pictures taken)

*Food

What She Is Wearing!
*12 month clothing - all though she can still fit into some 6-9, depending on the brand 
*Size 2 diapers - I had her in size 3 for a bit b/c that's what i had on hand and she SWAM in them :P 
*Accessories - headbands, barrettes, and hairbands for tiny pigtails and ponytails (started at 11 months) 


Other Fun Facts! 
She crawls like a crazy-girl, and will cruise about everywhere. If you hold onto a hand or if she's on a walking toy, she goes turbo-speed! She'll stand on her own for about 30 sec or so and has taken about 3 steps 4 different times. 

She LOVES to dance! If she hears music - no matter where it's from - tv, cd, phone, activity table she starts to dance! It's hilarious. There's an inner-groove in her! 


She loves to be have things organized.  She will pick up toys and will move objects from one storage basket to another.  Edyn also likes having things in a particular order! 
She hasn't started milk yet. I have her on the Enfa-Grow (stage 2) for extra nutrients. She doesn't have teeth yet, so I have gone all out on her eating EVERYTHING. All though, she does eat quite a bit. She gets upset if we're eating something and she's not. 

She likes being around people and likes getting her picture taken. I know, I have a diva-in-training. The last 2 times we have taken pics w/my friend Sarah (a professional) she turns on this 'mode'. As Sarah said, she has this 'it' factor. That she rarely see's w/all the kids she's photographed :P 


Teeth are there - somewhere, just not noticable quite yet! 


Incase you're curious, here's Strummer post of his 1-year accomplishments! 




Here are a few pics from her 1-year photo shoot by the fabulous Sarah Moore!