12 months

At 12 months, Piper is:

• crawling, cruising, climbing, pushing, pulling, but not walking.
• saying "quack", "clock", "coo coo" (for the clock in the dining room), "ma" (for milk), and "dog" (I think!).
• eating all table food and drinking whole milk from a cup.
• only nursing once a day (in the morning). This will cease in a few days as I give my body time to adjust to a succession of dropped feedings.
• sleeping from 7:30 PM to 7:30 AM.
• napping twice a day for 1.5 to 2 hours each time.
• making a mess of everything she can. We frequently refer to her as a tornado.
• chewing her crib to pieces.
• growing teeth. She now has five!
• grinding her teeth (and making my skin crawl!).
• actually snuggling a bit with us. I attribute this to ceasing nursing. She now needs to get her cuddles a different way.
• having entire conversations on her pretend phone.
• throwing EVERYTHING. We are currently working to learn the phrase "No throw!".

reading the paper with Daddy

She loves emptying this drawer in the kitchen.

I'm not sure who thought this was a good idea. Thank goodness for the shirt bib!