Growing too fast at 13 months!

Well as you can see I have scaled back to monthly updates instead of weekly, she is still growing like a weed though.  She seems to have really grown up a lot this past month, at least to me.  She has begun to drink whole milk and is loving the table food more than ever.  Her favorite veggie is peas and her favorite fruit is still mandarin oranges.  We went in for her one year check up she was currently weighing 19 pounds and 4 ounces and was 29 1/2 inches long.  She was in the 90th percentile for her height and the 25th percentile for her weight.  She is tall and skinny just like Chad and I were as kids.  The doctor actually told me I needed to start feeding her more snacks, but she is so busy she just burns all her calories.  She is never crawling anymore, she walks everywhere now.  The funny thing is that when she walks she has to hold her right arm straight up in the air to balance.  Shelby is also talking much more these days.  Her current vocabulary consists of Mama, Dada, Nana, Mimi, Pawapaw, Popa, no no no, sit, hat, puppy, eat, oooohhhhh, uh oh, Ish (for Ishy), hi, bye bye, and bath.  She is quite the talker to say the least.  If you ask her these days if she wants to take a bath she runs into her bathroom and even tries to climb into the tub, she loves the water, swimming too.  Shelby has also picked up a lot recently on her signing, she now signs eat, finished, puppy, more, cup and her favorite, hat.  As a family we also got to celebrate Shelby's 2nd Fourth of July.  She really had a blast at the parade waving to everyone that went by with both hands saying "Hi!" the entire time.  Her arms had to have gotten tired.  We later then went to Bryan and Paola's and ate dinner and shot of fireworks that did not even scare her. 

We also had an exciting month in that Shelby is no longer the baby in

 the extended Gorman family.  Uncle Bryan and Aunt Paola welcomed baby Grant Allen Gorman yesterday, July 25.  He was 8 lbs. 3 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long born at 2:56p.m.  He has so much dark straight hair and cheeks you just want to pinch.  Congrats to Bryan and Paola on

 your son and finally the Gorman family is getting a little more testosterone back in it.  I am sure Shelby will love to have him around to play with as much as she does the rest.

1 Year at 52 weeks!

Well the day has come and gone and my baby is one.  I only cried three times over it, yes I am crazy.  She has had so much fun

turning one.  This past week along with getting ready for her party we started Mommy and Me Swim Lessons.  Shelby loves the water and really enjoys all the songs and jumping around she gets to do , but not a huge fan of being dunked.  Shelby celebrated her birthday with about 35 guests this past Saturday at our home. She had a lot of fun eating cake, opening presents, doing the piniata, and playing in the water sprinklers, on the swingset and in the fun jump. Nana made an awesome cake as well that everyone enjoyed. 

Shelby also started walking this past Sunday.  I was so excited I was wanting her to walk before her first birthday and she did.  She is doing better and better everyday and is even letting go of her toys and walking from one to the other.  She also is talking much more these days.  She says hi, bye, hat, yeah, sit, no no no, uh-oh, Mama, Dada, Nana, Pawpaw and Popa.  She says a few other things, but we have not figured out what she is saying.

We also went to the Zoo yesterday where Shelby had a lot of fun.  She like the Lion that was laying against the glass and the petting zoo where she got to pet some goats.  She also enjoyed the tunnel that ran through a fish aquarium that she got to crawl through with her cousins.