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gives kisses to books!
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Cate had her 12-month checkup last week. This visit could not have been more different than our last doctor's appointment. Multiple people have recommended this particular office and with very good reason. Everyone was so kind and friendly. The doctor was so nice and spent AN HOUR with us. Cate loved her doctor and did all of her tricks – clapping, waving, and kissing. Yes, she kissed the doctor (open mouth, tongue slightly sticking out) on the check. And this was *after* her vaccinations. Think this kid is social?
Cate is actually quite petite at a year although she has a belly to rival a sixty year-old beer-drinker. She is 29 inches long and under 19 pounds (only 10th percentile).
Cate’s moment of zen
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How does this happen exactly? I look at my bright and beautiful one-year old who waves and gives kisses and think back to one year ago when she was so tiny and I was so tired…
bundled and happy about it
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mom & dad with cate
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This is so overdue. What I have done this week? I haven't been too lazy but I certainly have not accomplished much.
Mom and Dad stayed an entire week with us – Saturday to Saturday. Telfer also had the week off and it actually felt like a long visit/long vacation – but in a good way. No scary in-law stories here.
We packed a lot in one week – we did the Circle Line Cruise of New York Harbor, including the Statue of Liberty, saw Mary Poppins, visited the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, went to the Bronx to the "real" Little Italy (a story in of itself), had lunch in our neighborhood, walked through Central Park, Times Square, the West Village, Greenwich Village, the South Seaport, and finally, ate our collective body weights in carbohydrates (pretzels, bagels, pizza, black and white cookies, scones, hot dogs, the list goes on). So much fun. And! Telfer and I took turns and kept Cate pretty happy and well-napped throughout the week.
Cate *loved* spending time with her grandparents. For a day or so after they left, she would wake from a nap and look around for her Grandma and Papa. Soon we will be closer and their presence won't be such a novelty.
One more thing: I wrote that Telfer and I were going to a Brandi Carlile concert the night my parents came into town but Mom ended up sleeping so much on the plane that she wasn't tired at all so she came with me instead (Telfer doesn't really like concerts – weird – he probably overdosed on dcTalk and Audio Adrenaline back in the day). I am telling you: if you get the chance, go see Brandi live. You won't regret it.
My parents arrived on Saturday and we celebrated Cate’s birthday on Sunday. As the video attests, she loved her cupcake but loved her ribbon more. Classic. She continued to play with the ribbon from her packages (for the record: not the same ribbon in the video) for about a week after her birthday. She wasn’t nearly as excited by her presents!
Andrea Y. Griffith 