According to her pediatrician, Sage is thriving and doing great! She is still petite weighing 18 lbs 14 ozs (15%), is 29" long/tall (45%) and her head measures 18.25" (83%). The dr. is not concerned about her weight saying that she has always been smaller and he sees a lot of good "chub" on her! After her appt, we switched her from formula to whole milk. The switch was so simple and she seems to love her milk just as much as she loved her formula.
Sage is now eating a variety of foods. For breakfast she eats oatmeal, blueberry waffles or pancakes. She also has a fruit...usually watermelon, her fave! For a snack she will have organic "fiddlesticks" that are whole grain fruit sticks, freeze dried yogurt or "puffs". She drinks water and sometimes water + prune juice when we are having issues. For lunch Sage usually eats grilled cheese, mac & cheese, black bean burger, veg protein chicken fingers, REAL chicken fingers or mac & cheese veggie cakes. She then has her 2nd course of either veggies (carrots, black beans + sugar snap peas), whole grain wagon wheels or fruit (usually watermelon or freeze dried apples). I let her have 1 small organic alphabet cookie or 3 freeze dried yogurt drops. For dinner, it is usually one of the items listed from lunch - just a different combo than what she had for lunch that day. Sometimes she will love something the 1st time she eats it, then the next time we try it, it gets thrown on the floor. We have tried a lot of other fruits and vegs and she will not always eat them. I found a line of organic kids' food that has cut up carrots that you bake like french fries and she seems to like these. I tried to give her tomatoes and she turned her head away. Soooo...we will keep trying healthy foods and hopefully she'll start eating more of these!
Some things Sage is doing at 1 are:
- She can say "mama", "dada" and "baba" and seems to know what they mean. She is also very good at imitating words we say and will repeat them with us. When something delights her, she says "Ohhhh", forms a large "O' with her mouth and raises her eyebrows. She is also babbling/talking constantly and it is so much fun to carry on a conversation with her. Of course, she is also screaching a little louder and this is not so much fun when we are in public!
- When Sage is eating something she really enjoys, she says "YUMMMMMM" and keeps on saying it while eating.
- Sage is dancing and bouncing to music. So cute!
- Sage loves to clap, wave and laugh. She claps when she hears others clapping, waves at everyone and laughs all of the time.
- Sage is standing & cruising. She loves to push her baby stroller around the family room. She'll be walking anyday now!
- Sage loves to read and seems to like her books more than her toys. We are pretty happy about this and hope our love of reading passes on to her. She likes to look at any book or magazine and seems very deep in thought when she is reading. She "talks" a lot while she is looking at her books and has a lot of expression in her voice when she is reading. She really loves books that have bright pictures and are "touch and feel" meaning they have shiny areas, fur on animals, etc. Some of Sage's favorite books right now are "That's not my Mermaid", "Eight Silly Monkeys", "Garden Fairy Fun", Dwell "Farm Animals", her soft Disney Princess book and her entire collection of Strawberry Shortcake books (they're good for chewing).
- Sage seems to be a very sociable little girl. When we are out, she looks and smiles at people and is very friendly. She still gets a lot of attention....especially when she flashes them a big grin. She also loves going to music class at Gymboree and loves to get in the middle of the circle and then look at everyone. Most babies stay with their moms or crawl around the outskirts.
I am sure I am leaving out some things Sage is doing....if I think of others, I will return and update this post.
It's unbelievable to us that Sage is 1 yr old....my how time flies. It was the best year of our lives and we cannot wait to see how our little girl grows.
Sage on her 1st birthday
Ohhhh....I love my pretty shoes!
The "Birthday Girl" dress...
1 comment:
She is so grown up - that went so fast! It is neat to see all that she is doing. It just keeps getting better. Oh - and that is so cool that she will still wear her headbands - Lila figured out how to whip those off about 9 mos and they were gone! We had to get creative with the bows (we do a ponytail first, and then clip the bow to it) and she doesn't mind at all. love the bday dress - that was adorable!
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