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Where has the year gone? I can't believe that in just one short month we'll be celebrating my baby's first birthday. She is on the go these days! Not walking yet but pulling her self up on everything and cruising around on the furniture. Oh, and she's discovered the stairs and is enamored with them! Every time I turn my back she makes a bee line for them. Fortunately, big sister is a good monitor when I'm not watching and is always quick to tell me, "Mom, Tenley's climbing the stairs again!"  She also has an adorable playful side - initiating games of peek-a-boo on her own with the kitchen hand towels while I'm making dinner. She loves to feed herself all kinds of finger foods and has even started weening herself off the bottle in exchange for a sippy cup. She says dada all the time but has yet to call me mama. I think it's just a fun game for her now. I say mama, she says dada and laughs! One of these days she'll call me mama and melt m...

I'm a little behind the times and I can't find the date anywhere when she actually started crawling but it's been a while now... so we'll just say "somewhere around 9 months". It started out with the army crawl but it has progressed to full grown big girl crawling, and now even pulling herself up on the furniture. This is happening way too fast. I don't want my sweet little baby to grow up just yet. She's so fun at this age! Here are a couple pics:

Tenley got her first tooth on Monday (January 23rd). Here she is showing it off:

My baby is growing up too fast! She started sitting by herself last month, which I think made Christmas much more fun for her! She loves eating food now and actually has a hard time drinking her bottles anymore because she'd rather have yummy veggies and cereal. She had almost doubled her birth weight at her last doctors check up. She still looks so much like a baby to me compared to Jenica at this age because she still hardly has any hair! Except for one little curl on the right hand side, she has about the same amount of hair that she had when she was born! Jenica on the other hand... well, take a look for yourself!

Jenica's Ballet Recital

Click on the link below to see a cute review of our year in pictures :) It was a year full of change and newness for the Bachelders and we loved EVERY minute of it (well, except for the sleepless nights with a newborn and moving with a 3 week old!) But we wouldn't trade any of it for the world! We are BLESSED! 2011