One year update

Here's what Eleanor's up to at one year old:

• At her checkup yesterday, she weighed 20 lbs and was 30.25 inches long.  This puts her in the 40th percentile for weight and the 80th for height.  As the pediatrician said, she's still long and lean just like she's been since the day she was born.
• She points at stuff ALL the time now.  I try to tell her the names of everything, and it seems to be working.  In her room she knows where everything is and will point to her map, her pictures, her ceiling fan, and her name when I ask her where they are.  For her name I actually spell it and she points to where it is written on the wall.
• She also has a pretty good vocabulary.  She has said mama, daddy, kitty, turtle, desert (pointing at paintings), toys, picture, tree, painting, swing, yes, nose, telephone (teh-own), and book all pretty clearly - or at least well enough for me to understand.  There have been lots of times that I think she's saying a new word correctly but I'm not quite sure if it's just a coincidence.  This morning she seems to be working on the word balloon.  (We have one hanging around still from her party.)
• She loves music!  There's this one song from her music class where you pat your knees with the beat while you sing it, and she loves that song.  Occasionally she'll stop what she's doing, look at me, and pat her knees.  If I start singing it with her she gets a HUGE smile on her face.
• She's still not walking, but she's doing just about everything else.  She'll crawl, pull up, cruise, etc.  A part of me is a little anxious for her to start walking, but then I realize it will just make my life more difficult so I don't worry about it.
• She understands the meaning of "no", which is helpful.  I try not to say it often at all, but when I do she usually stops what she's doing.
• Eleanor is apparently down to just one nap a day.  It started taking her forever to fall asleep for her morning nap, so yesterday I experimented and didn't even try putting her down.  She went straight through the morning with no problems and then took a 2+ hour afternoon nap.  I was kind of hoping maybe she would start sleeping later in the morning to make up for it, but 6:45 AM it is...
• She is making the transition to whole milk with no problem.  The first time we gave it to her she drank it from her sippy cup like she had been doing it all her life.  We're now down to nursing only twice a day (morning and night) and I plan to wean her completely in the next couple of weeks.  In some ways it's a huge relief, but it's also sad because I will definitely miss it.
• I love watching Eleanor play by herself!  She's hilarious.  She will play alone for up to 30 minutes and she talks to herself and to her toys.  She has a little cloth bird house and we've decided that's where she puts the things that she really likes (her "prizes").  Sometimes I'll find it full of blocks or Fisher Price Little People or puzzle pieces or who knows what else.
• She still only has two teeth!  That sure doesn't stop her from eating though!
• She loves to make silly faces and will try to get you to make them back at her.  She scrunches up her nose, sticks out her tongue, or shakes her head back and forth.  If you do it back to her she thinks it's hilarious!

I guess that's it for now.  I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast!