Love it

It is the cutest, most adorable thing when I walk into your room when you have woken up and see you up on your knees holding the side of the crib just waiting for me or daddy to come in and get you. You've been doing that for about a week now and I just can't help but smile everytime I walk in and see you doing it. You also are drinking out of sippy cups now. We still feed you formula out of a bottle, but we give you juice and water cups everyday. I just watched you down an entire sippy cup of apple-banana juice in about 7 minutes. You are growing up so fast. Unfortunately, you have been sick the past couple of days. I had to stay home from work to take care of you. The doc thinks it's just a summer flu and you don't need to be treated with antibiotics. You're still getting fevers though so daddy and I are trying really hard to keep you hydrated. But you have been acting completely normal. Still a very happy baby. You are just a little more whiney and needy than usual. Hopefully you are feeling tons better by Monday so you can get back to day care.

Forgot!

I forgot to add that you can also go from crawling to sitting up and visa versa. A-dorable! When you're crawling you just prop yourself up onto your knees then roll your hips until you're sitting on your tush. I love it.

Crawling

Soooo today was the first day that I saw you get up on your knees and crawl. Ok ok ok so you didn't crawl across the room or anything, but you were able to slide your legs on the floor to go forward. It was so cute! I just about cried from excitement. And the invites are out for your 1st birthday party. I can't wait, baby girl! It's going to be so much fun. It seems like everyday you are getting bigger and learning something new. Time is just flying by!

Happy 11-month Birthday!

Today you are officially 11 months old. Time flies when you're having fun! Just think. In a few more months or so you will be walking. Then mom and dad will really have to keep up with you! At 11-months you can:

*scoot (army crawl) yourself all over the place

*wave hi and buh-bye

*say ma-ma and da-da

*get yourself up onto your knees, but sprawl out and scoot when you want to move somewhere

*sit up all by yourself

*stand with help, but are very wobbly still

*sometimes pull yourself to standing, but lose balance and fall over

*sleep through the night like a champ

*clap your hands

Things you love:

*your puppy and panda

*your nookie (when its needed)

*playing on the floor

*remotes and cell phones

*the dog food bowl (you are constantly crawling over to it... and we are constantly pulling you away from it)

*anything that is not a baby toy

*wires and cords

*hanging out under tables

*Hats and sunglasses

*Fruit. You absolutely love fruit.

Other facts:

*you weigh 16 pounds (not sure of your height/length)

*you have a decent amount of hair on your little noggin

*you are still a skinny, little peanut

*you wear size 2 diapers

*you wear 6-9 month onsies

*you wear 6 month tops and 6-9 month bottoms (depends on the brand)

*you have 2 bottom teeth growing in

*you sometimes take a 1 hour morning nap, and always take an afternoon nap for about 1.5 - 2.5 hours around 1:00pm (depends on where you are sleeping and how sleepy you are)

*you move around a lot in your sleep (and I mean a lot)

Eating habits:

*6 oz bottle of EnfaCare in the morning

*2 oz of formula mixed with cereal, and a bowl of fruit/veggies at most meals

*an occasional 2-4 oz bottle throughout the day

*graham crackers, saltines, cheerios, bananas, beans, and other "people" food for snacks

And I'm sure there are plenty of things I am missing, but there is just so much stuff you can do now that it is hard to remember it all in just one sitting. You have one of the best personalities ever! (I'm sure all parents say that about their kids though) And you are overall a super happy baby. You only cry when you want something. Otherwise you are all smiles. We love you, sweet pea! Happy 11-months! :)

Accidents happen

Well sweetie pie... Today you had a bit of an accident. Mommy had put you in your new stroller and strapped you in so that she could get some dishes done. All of a sudden I heard a pretty loud *thud* and turned to find you face down on the kitchen floor. I ran over and picked you up! You were screaming pretty loud. It took mommy and daddy a minute or so to calm you down. Then I brought you to the emergency room so a doctor could have a look at you and tell mommy that everything was a-ok! And guess what!? That's exactly what he said! No damage done. Just a little red bump on your head. I still have no idea how you managed to climb out of the stroller. Your nickname suits you pretty well, monkey.

Total cuteness

Although tooth number 2 came in quite a few days ago, I can now see it when you smile. Pretty soon both bottom teeth will be grown in and you'll be ready to work on some top ones! It's so cute watching you smile. Last night we stayed the night at gramma's and you had to stay in your cradle. Gramma doesn't have a crib yet. You used to fit so nicely in that cradle. Now you are just too big. You move around a lot in your sleep and the cradle was just too little for you to move anywhere. It was cute to peek in on you and see your foot sticking out between the bars. You end up in very odd positions when you sleep. Then in the morning you woke up with some major bedhead. All of the hair on your head was sticking out every which way. I couldn't help but try and take a picture of it. Unfortunately you weren't in a cooperating mood, and my phone doesn't take very good pictures sometimes. And when I picked you up from day care you smelled like vanilla wafers. Everything that happened today just seemed so darn cute to me! Your 11-month birthday is coming up in a couple days. Your growing up so fast.

Teeth and crawling

Tooth number two came in about three days ago! Yay! You wake up with about 3 spots of drool all over the sheets. Pretty darn adorable if you ask me. And yesterday you were able to get yourself onto your knees without any help from mom or dad! I see hands-and-knees crawling coming soon in your near future. Give it a few more weeks and you'll really have mommy and daddy on their toes :)

Oh my sweetie pie

So now that you've been scootin' around for the past month, we've had to block off the openings to the kitchen. We don't have gates so we use chairs or your exersaucer. You don't like this very much. You get mad/frustrated when you can't get into the kitchen. A few days ago we had your car seat in front of one of the openings and you started to pull yourself up on it. Then you lost balance and face planted right into the car seat. Just now, like right at this very minute, I had the exersaucer in front of one of the openings and you crawled right through the bottom of it to get to the kitchen! It was the funniest thing ever! You sure know what you want, and you usually want it now. Unfortunately, because of all the scootin' on the carpet, you got a blister on your big toe of your right foot. For some reason you only push off of that one toe. We try to keep socks on you at all times, but you don't seem to want to keep them on. You just pull them right off everytime! You certainly are the cutest darn thing, baby girl.

I love you

You know I love you, right? Well just in case you didn't... I LOVE YOU!! :)