Almost 1....

There you have it. My little Phia is almost one and I just can't believe it. She is almost (gasp) a toddler and won't be a baby much longer.

We went and got her 1 year pictures done along with family pictures yesterday. Here are the results:

We ended up orderin #2 and #5 for our walls. She was so good for the almost 2 hour process. She wasn't in a very smily mood however and the photographer had a tough time getting her to smile. She had a primary colored feather duster that she tried to get her to smile with initially but when that didn't work she grabbed a stuffed dog. Phia however wanted the feather duster so she was reaching for it up on the shelf. She got the feather duster and tried again. Several times she tried to switch toys but Phia just wanted the duster, the camera button and her name badge. When she was getting her pictures taken by the ladder she was grabbing the flowers and chewing on them, moving them and tossing them.

She loves this ball! She used to roll it back and forth with you, however now she rolls it the opposite direction and then crawls after it. She also loves it when Grandma Cook helps her kick it and I roll it to them. It tires Grandma out though and so we have to take breaks every so often.

No one could ever imagine how grumpy she was the day this picture was taken! Right after this picture this is what happened.....

Tantrum time!

She still loves books! She really likes this book as it has punchouts in the pages that are various shapes. In fact, if a book is sitting where she can see it on her dresser, good luck doing anything else. Whatevere you do don't try and get her to sleep if there is a book in sight, it won't happen and you will end up reading the book and letting her look through it.

This was her hair yesterday after we took her ribbons out for pictures. Today Shane had a real difficult time getting it to lay down for church. It was pretty funny and just stuck out from the sides of her head.

Last week my Grandma came down from Idaho and we had a good visit on Wednesday. Ash and her girls came over along with Meg and Chloe. We had lunch together, along with fruit salsa and cinnamon sugar chips and carrots and celery with laughing cow cheese. We had impossible tuna pie for dinner, rolls and a yummy fruit salad with an awesome dressing! It was fun visiting and made me wish that we lived closer so we could see them more often.

On Thursday Phia and I went to Enrichment night and one of the classes was on Kid Friendly foods. They made Empanadas with taco meat, sloppy joe meat, egg, cheese and onion, pepperoni pizza, hawaiian pizza, dulce de leche and a mango puree. They were yummy and now I am on the hunt for the empanada pasta rounds. This is how she made her dulce de leche:

Ingredients:
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Remove the label from the can of condensed milk. Do not open the can yet. Take the can and stick it in a pot. Cover it with water. Put the pot on a stove and turn up the heat. Let the pot and can simmer gently for about one and a half to two hours for runny dulce de leche, or up to four hours for solid dulce de leche. Add more water, as necessary, when the level boils down too much. When it's done, let it cool for a while, and then carefully open up the can and eat directly (for the solid variety) or use as a dessert spread (for the liquid variety). The resulting product should be colored tan or brown.

NOTE: You need to keep a close eye on the can. If it shows any signs of expansion, immediately remove it from the heat and let it cool. If you are concerned at all at the high-pressure nature of the recipe, you may poke a small hole in the top of the can, and lower the water level so that the can is not completely covered. This will allow the internal pressure of the can to be released, but it will also make the recipe take longer (since high pressure reduces cooking time).

She decided that it was time to give up the bottle last week so we switched her to whole milk. She just decided that she was sick of her bottle. I would make her a bottle, she would drink 2 oz and toss it off the bed. It was getting to be a joke as we were just throwing away expensive formula. We got her whole milk and she wouldn't drink it at first, not out of a cup, not out of a sippie cup, nada. Finally Grandma Cook had her drinking water out of a straw and so we went to Target and got the cup that have the straw but it tucks inside and they are insulated. She loves them!

It has been quite the feat to figure out what she will eat however. She will no longer eat cereal for breakfast and won't eat oatmeal. She will eat french toast, waffles, pancakes, toast, muffins, pretty much carbs! She does like tuna sandwiches, mini corndogs, rice, cheese, yogurt, otter pops, sweets, fruit, spicy anything...it just depends on the day. She loves goldfish, animal crackers, fruit snacks, vanilla wafers, pretzels for snacking.

Grandma and Grandpa Freeman just left after planning our Bear Lake trip the end of August! It should be lots of fun but I have a lot to do between her birthday and getting ready to go camping.