1 Year!!

My baby girl is 1 year old now. It's hard to believe such a funny and sweet little girl has been in our lives for a year now!

Her measurements are from her 1 year checkup, so presumably are accurate (versus my guesses at home).

Height: 30" (77th Percentile)
Weight: 17lb 14oz (7th Percentile)

Shockingly, she's still long and skinny. Her growth pattern pretty much perfectly meets the chart for breastfed babies, though.

Entomologist in Training?

We found this massive, massive ant in the garden yesterday. This thing was a full inch long. Yowza.

Here's the only picture I could get. 


Anyway, James saw it, thought it was cool, and when I asked what kind of ant he thought it was, he said, "Maybe it's one of those big queen ones, that's the mama, and she's got lots of babies."

We looked it up, and sure enough, it's a queen carpenter ant.

I really hope she doesn't set up shop in my garden.

However, my boy is one smart little cookie.