Alice is one!

Alice! My sweet baby girl you are one today! This past year has gone by way to fast. Alice, you long hoped for, much anticipated, and a dream come true. We feel so lucky and blessed you came into our family and our hearts forever!

Casey and I were trying to come up with words to describe Alice's personality and simply put we feel Alice is just an easy going, happy little lady. With the exception of being really tired, hungery, or extreme sibling "love" she is generally content and goes with the flow.
Alice likes to talk and babble to and with us. She even talks with her hands (Loosle genes ; ). Often times when she wakes up I here her in her crib just babbling away to herself. She has a girly voice we love to hear. She says hi Dad, and will say meme for me when she's upset / super hungry. She's said a few random words, but nothing consistent yet. She's stated to sign with us as well and uses the sign More at meals.
She is a mover and a goer. She likes to clap, wave, bounce to music, and explores all over the house. She likes her walker and goes all around with it. Sometimes she walks with us, but she isn't waking on her own yet. She'll stand for a few seconds and has attempted a hand full of steps, but her desire ends there (really she just knows crawling is faster and she's surrounded by people who haul her willingly and mostly without needing to).
After nine plus months Alice is finally sleeping through the night and goes down for naps on her own!!! It was a long time getting here and I'm so so happy she's figured it out! (Now we just have to figure out naps during afternoon church time.)
She doesn't have favorites with food or toys (unless you count our phones as toys). She'll eat most things, but when she's not in the mood for something she'll hand it back to us or spit it back out without a word. She's also defiantly the third child and has had more sweets and foods sooner than the other two did.
While Alice started out as a mama's girl she's found out how awesome daddy is. When he gets home she lights up and wants him to get her. She also likes to follow him around the house. Kendal and Peter pester, haul her around, and are very much in her face always, but she tolerates and deals with 98% of it.  She still finds her in the face brother hilarious and gives him her biggest laughs. Kendal still sMothers her with love and adoration. She likes to reach up and tap notes while Kendal is practicing piano and plays (aka eats) Peter's action figures while he plays. She also follows her siblings around and doesn't like being shut out when they are I'm the bathroom or playing Legos in another room.
Alice we love you so much sweetheart! Happy first birthday!

 

At one year Alice is 21 lbs (70%) and just over 29 in tall (~ 50%)