Happy Birthday Dolly!

Dolly had her one year old birthday today! I can't believe that it's already been a year with this little angel. She has developed such a personality. At one year old:
She walks all over the place. She's still very bowlegged and pigeon toed, but that doesn't stop her.
She gets in to everything she can. We have had to put child locks on cupboards to keep her from pulling everything out.
She loves bath time. I can hardly get her to sit down in the bath tub. She is always standing up playing with the toys.
She's still very attached to her mommy.
She has a very big smile, with 5 teeth.
She wont sit in her stroller very long. She wants to be held by mommy.
She hates her high chair and wants to be fed while mommy holds her.
She dances whenever she hears music. She bounces up and down.
She has a favorite winnie the pooh stuffed animal that she loves. Any toy her sister is currently playing with is also her favorite. Mckinley is learning a lot about sharing.
She still wakes up at least once and usually twice at night. But she goes to bed right at 9pm.
Most days, she just takes one nap.
She is a very picky eater. She spits things out if they aren't the perfect temperature or what she is expecting.
She knows that her Daddy is wrapped around her finger and she always smiles so big for him. Most men she is very shy with, but not her Daddy.
She likes to sleep with her "lovee" which is a pair of silky pajama pants that at one point belonged to me, but have since been commandeered by her.
She loves playing with Mckinley. She waits very anxiously in the mornings for her sister to wake up and play with her. They chase each other around the house all day long, making me crazy!
She loves to have stories read to her. She spends a lot of time looking at books on her own too.
She has such a feisty personality. She makes the most fearsome noises at us sometimes.
She can go up stairs, but coming down is a bit frightening as she thinks she can just take a step down without looking. So we have to barricade the stairs.

We love her so much! What a wonderful year we have had with this baby girl. I can't believe it has gone by so fast!

Halloween 2010

We had a fun Halloween even though Mckinley had a hurt arm. We started the night out with a sloppy joe and home made root beer at my parents house of horror. My mom always has the most haunted house in the neighborhood, complete with spooky music and dry ice fog.
Mckinley went with my dad to the ward Halloween party next. After she got back, we took the girls trick or treating around the neighborhood. We also made a few family visits. Dolce had no idea what to think about all of this craziness. The picture at the top really about sums up what she was thinking the whole night.
David and I finished off the night by watching a scary movie snuggled up on the couch. I love Halloween. Hope it was a great night for everyone!

You guessed it!!

I guess that the third time is the charm when it comes to broken arms. After waiting overnight to find out about Mckinley's hurt arm, we got a call the next day telling us that the radiology Dr. did think there was a break somewhere near her elbow joint. Unfortunately, it was Friday and we couldn't get into the Orthopedic Dr. until Monday evening and so poor Mckinley was in quite a bit of pain for a lot of the weekend. (Halloween weekend even!)
When we did have her appointment with Dr. Delcore, he wasn't fully convinced that she had a fracture because they never were able to see it on the x-ray. I just kept hoping that it would just be a bad bruise or something, but after checking her arm out very carefully, he found that she had broken the bottom part of her Humerus. He also told me that 19 out of 20 times they have to place a pin in the bone because gravity pulls the injured part of the bone into the elbow joint. However, he said that we might be the lucky 1 out of 20 because hers was looking very stable, so please cross your fingers for us. She has to have it checked again in a couple of weeks to make sure we don't have to have a pin put in.
She now has a bright pink cast, and she is feeling so much better with it stabilized. She's just about back to her normal self.