We had our 1 yr doctor visit last week on Wednesday. Doctor said she looks fabulous and is doing great. Cristiana now weighs 20 lbs, which puts her in the 35-40% (compared to her 1st few months which she was in the low 5%) and measures 28.5 inches, which puts her in the 40-50% (compared to her first 6 months which she was in the low 10%), so our little monkey has definitely grown. Cristiana has become such a great eater, I mean she will practically eat anything you put in front of her and it almost seems as though she is a bottomless pit , she NEVER stops eating. I'm hoping she will continue to eat as well as she does and never becomes as picky as I am. She no longer is doing the army man crawl, she has finally picked her belly off the floor and crawls like an expert (thank goodness, less dirty clothes). We call her Speedy Gonzalez because she is soo quick. She pulls herself to stand up with anything she can grip onto (she even pulled herself up at a friends house using their Christmas tree, luckily nothing fell). As for walking, she will take steps with you holding her hand but she's still not confident enough to let go, but I'm sure it will happen in no time. Her repertoire of words include, mama (not used as often anymore ???), papa, baba, and uty (which means Rusty when she's calling the dog). She'll even say "hey" when she's pretending she's on the phone, which she does A LOT. She will actually grab random things and put them to her ear and acts like she's on the phone. She's grabbed remotes, socks, shoes, toys, her own hand (it's really cute). Once she laid down on her side with her play phone and pretended to talk (boy, is she a girl or what). She loves to hug all her stuffed animals and also mom and dad and says awwwww while she's doing it. She loves to feed other people her food, mostly her leftovers of course. Her new thing these days is clapping to everything. She claps to music, to the tv, after she takes a bite of food. I guess she's excited because she can actually clap hard enough now that she hears it. She still loves to make a mess and of course throw things over her shoulder with great disinterest while she's doing it (especially mommy's diaper bag). No, she's still not sleeping, I don't know when she will and yes, she still hates diaper changes and now doesn't seem to like sitting in her hook on chair for meals. She is definitely a firecracker and knows what she wants and we love her to pieces!

Weight 20 lbs (30-40%)

Length 28.5 in (40-50 %)