Arden's 1st Birthday Party

1 Year Checkup

Arden had her 1 year checkup on Monday. She's doing great! Her hight and weight are perfectly average (humorously following the 50th percentile line perfectly). She does have one thing that's a bit unique though….her head. She has a big head right now - 96th percentile (47.5 cm)! Yeah - she get's that from her father. She had vaccination shots as well, but doesn't seem to be suffering ill effects from them. She is developing a growing sense of "the terrible twos syndrome" though. Here come the screams, bites, tantrums, and crying fits! Mommy and Daddy are going to hang on for the ride. As Grammie suggested, distract and redirect!

Arden's 1st Birthday

Arden is 1! We can't believe that we've had her in our lives for a whole year already! We've been doing lots of fun things to celebrate the occasion...

Chocolate Cake and singing (Arden ate a whole piece by herself), lots of presents, and Kyle's Dad and his wife came out for a visit. Needless to say, things have been rather exciting. We even went to Central Park today for a fun family and friends picnic get together.

Arden's favorite present? Probably Aunt Corrie's refrigerator magnets that make farm animal noises. She likes her toy piano that we got her too!