13 Months!

It has been crazy in the Waechter household, thus the very much overdue 13 month post. In short, after being sick for numerous days leading to a trip to the ER with severe abdominal pains and several tests later I ended up having surgery to get my gallbladder removed. That was on Feb 6th. Grandmom Wenck flew in that day to help with Annabelle while I recovered. Unfortunately, my recovery wasn't textbook (surprise, surprise) and took a few detours so it has been a slow and frustrating recovery. Luckily Grandmom was able to stay the whole time and my new job (yes, I got a job!) was very understanding and pushed my start date back a week. So I am finally starting to feel human again and Grandmom is able to leave tomorrow (a hard goodbye that will be).

Now to the most important thing, Annabelle turned 13 months! With that she also is full-fledged walker (check out the video below)! She loves walking and is doing such a great job at it. She literally walks all over the house and even gets frustrated when she is constrained and can't walk. Her wonderful personality is developing and illuminating each day and she is seriously so happy! She loves to spend her time playing with all her toys, exploring the house, watching some baby shows on the TV (limited!), climbing stairs, playing with the dog and cat, and cuddling with anyone who wants too. She has become a great eater over these past several weeks. She is completely off formula and is only eating true people food and drinking whole milk. And no more bottles! A sippy cup is all Annabelle needs. It took about 20 trials of different sippy cups, but we finally found one she loves. Another big hallmark is that she has started daycare and she loves it! The napping schedule is taking some time to get use to, which is expected, but besides that everything is going well. The teachers say she is such a happy girl who loves to play! I couldn't ask for a better report.

Watching Annabelle learn and grow each day and develop into her own little self has definitely kept us going through this crazy month. A smile from Annabelle is definitely the best medicine I found!