Johanna's First Year

Growth by Firsts

• Lost Umbilical Cord: 1 week.
• Sleeping Through the Night: 5 weeks.
• First Smile : 6 weeks.
• Grabs and Holds: 10-12 weeks.
• First Laugh: 11 weeks.
• Rolls Over: 12 weeks.
• First Cereal: 20 weeks.
• Sitting: 4 months.
• First Solid Food: 5 months.  Carrots.
• Clapping: 7 months.
• First Tooth: 8 months.
• Sit Youself Up: 8 months.
• Feeding Yourself: 9 months.
• First Pouty Lip: 10.5 months.
• First Steps: 10.5 months. 
• First Words: 11 months. Saying HI and BYE with actions.
• Stand Yourself Up: 11 months.
• Running: 11.5 months. And you haven't stopped since!
    
  Personality Highlights
   
•  Has a big precious smile and easy laugh.
• Loves to play the BOO! game.
• Really enjoys daycare, to the point it is sometimes hard to get her to leave.
• Very active – stared out with big jumps in her monkey jumper, an early walker and runner, loves slides and swings and even sledding, can throw and kick balls.
• Easily identifies what she does and doesn’t want – will point and say “Eh, eh!”, uses sign language and speaks the word “Mo”, says no with a whole body jiggle.
• Enjoys reading books, usually multiple in one sitting.
• Doesn’t like the word “No” and may cry at simply hearing it.
• A bit of a daddy’s girl but is getting closer to equally favoring mommy, takes a little bit to warm up to other family members during visits.
• Is very much into “kitty” Guster, and all types of animals (including hugging her stuffed animals) but it must be on her own terms.
• Likes dancing to music, looking at pictures, and taking baths.
• Grumpiness is usually a result of hunger which is easily resolved with your favorite foods like goldfish or anything resembling a cookie.