11 Months!

Annabelle is 11 months old!

Not really understanding how it's even possible to have time fly by this quickly. Each day brings new joy into our lives and enriches us more and more. We cannot believe how much you have changed our lives for the better. Your hugs and smiles can quickly melt our hearts and make any bad day instantly better.

I'm also not sure how it's possible that you are getting more adorable every day. Your gentleness has moved to the side this month to allow for some crazy spirit to enter our lives. The more you learn to move the more you can't stop and settle. You have to be doing something at all times and your desire for stimulus makes you frustrated quickly if you get bored. Keeping you challenged is proving more difficult as the months continue.

You have no desire to sit and watch anymore. We do love this about you but continued to be challenged in our own need to keep you happy and entertained.

Your sweet and huge smiles to continue to grow and make everyone around you happy. Strangers still stop to tell me how adorable and how happy you are. Being out in public is becoming your new stage to try out some of your new ham like qualities. You see someone new and start making noises and dancing to get attention then shy away if someone talks to you. You keep life interesting on a daily basis.

In this past month you have:

---learned how to stand on your own. You can hold yourself still for a while, squat and push yourself up again.

---taken one step easily, and one time took 3 steps

---continue to cruise around the house while holding on to furniture

---8 teeth now, this month your days of teething continued longer and you were more fussy that usual

---continued to eat 4 times a day, milk 4 times and food 3 times

---started to get formula supplemented in your bottle some nights before bed

---continued to love food, you did spend one week not wanting to eat anything at all but went right back to eating tons of food like no food strike happened

---tried chicken, and turkey and still do not like any of it

---you could probably eat cheese and crackers all day

---said "bababa" to everything

---signed "milk" "more" "dog" "sleep" and "Baby"

---started to dance and clap, you continue to point at things

---started to go find toys that we name (kitty, dolly, book and blocks)

---continued to sleep well at nights, you wake up more this month then you normally do. A dirty diaper will wake you and you will cry, you've also started to have bad dreams that can wake you up

---had a small case of hives on your face for one day

At 11 months you weigh: 16 lbs 14 oz

Seriously, Annabelle, you are an amazing baby. We could not ask for a better way to start our journey into parenthood. Thank you for your sweet temperament and your moments of sheer craziness. I wouldn't have it any other way.