11 Months

11 months!  Eek!  How is that my baby will be ONE next month!?  She has grown, changed, and learned so many new things in the last few weeks.  It's so fun to watch her learn something new literally everyday.  She recently hit a mental/physical growth-spurt and reached a lot of developmental milestones within about a week! Crazy how fast she's moving and changing these days.  In one word, she is a HANDFUL!  Still our sweet, snuggly, happy girl, but always on the move and into something.  She's wanting to be more independent and mobile, and gets frustrated easily when she can't get what she wants or go where she wants to go.  Her little personality is turning into a big personality as she is asserting herself and letting us know who she is.  When she's in a chatty mood, she is loud and between her and her sister, Cody and I often have to stop our conversations as we can't hear each other over them.

  Some of the things she has recently learned and we love watching her do now:
- Waving!  She has the CUTEST wave and gets so excited when someone waves to her.  She puts one or both hands up in the air and will wave back and forth as long as someone is waving at her.
- Pointing.  If she's not waving, she's pointing at everything and everyone.  She'll often do a wave with one hand while pointing with the other hand.  So cute!
- Is pulling up to stand on her own.  She first mastered this in her crib and now can do it on pretty much everything.  She has no fear trying to stand up in the bath tub which often leads to falling and being submerged under water.  It hasn't phased her in the least, but it scares me every time!
- Prefers to be standing up holding onto something rather than sitting down.  She loves playing with her music table and cruising on furniture. 
- Walking with her walker.  She loves walking all over the place while pushing and hanging onto her walker.  She gets brave and will hang on with one hand and does a transfer from her walker to furniture on her own.  I don't think she's close to walking on her own any time soon though - she still has a lot of weight to support on those little feet ;).
- Is obsessed with playing with balls, and is actually pretty good at it.  She will roll the ball back and forth to us - at first I thought it was just accidental and her hand would just happen to roll the ball in the right direction, but we've realized she's actually very intentional.  She gets really excited to play with balls and will crawl after them as they roll away.  She loves getting a ball for Lily and then dropping/attempting to throw it for her.
- Loves throwing things - she tosses her binkies out of her crib and shrieks until someone comes back in and gives them to her, she loves throwing food off her high chair (especially when Lily is waiting under her chair), and thinks it's hilarious to throw whatever she's holding and see how many times someone will pick it up for her.
- Growing more teeth! Another one cut through on top making a total of four on top and two on bottom.  She chews and gnaws on everything leaving teeth marks all over her crib and on every table at every restaurant we got to.  Oops!
- Has finally started doing a more traditional crawl.  Up until a few weeks ago, she was still doing her army crawl with her belly on the ground.

We just love this sweet girl!!  Pictures from her last month...

She loves her books...

Teething much?

Big waves!

 So happy to be standing up playing these days...

Celebrating daddy on his birthday...

  I love when she gets up on her knees to play...

 Testing out her noise making skills on the microphone...

 We had fun hanging out with aunties and uncles while my whole family was in town to celebrate birthdays...

 Celebrating my birthday - so fun to have grandma stay with us for a week!

 Pinning her big sister down...

 Concentrating hard to figure out this walking thing...

Easily entertained with moving boxes...

Growing LOTS of curls!  Her hair is so similar to Ella's at this age, just a lighter color...

 She loves bath time...

  And I had to include one picture of her sad face - we think she's so cute even when she's crying! Haha!  These days she gets easily frustrated when she doesn't get what she wants or something she was playing with gets taken away (usually remote controls, iphones, cords, etc.)...

I took this video almost a month ago when she was first starting to figure out how to use the walker. I love how she was figuring out her first steps with it.  She's very confident/fast with it now!