11 Months Old

On Monday, Ally celebrated her 11 month birthday. She has been a busy little bee this month, just growing and growing. She has fine tuned many of her skills and is working towards the big one- walking. The teeth count has also been growing as she now has her bottom two and top two teeth sticking out.

Ally stands on anything and everything but really doesn't show much interest in standing on her own yet. She thinks that her toys and books are now for standing on and she thinks they help her reach more things she shouldn't if she uses them as steps. She is into cruising around furniture and her jumper and always has to be sure someone is watching when she gets adventurous and starts to move or only hang on with one hand. She will push anything and everything around on the floor but she really likes her stroller, push toy and high chair. She is starting to take a few steps at a time holding onto my hands and yesterday she even did some only holding on to me with one hand. She is not very balanced yet so we really need to work on that. She knows that she can crawl super fast so she gets frustrated easily and just wants to be on all fours.

Waving is the current obsession and has replaced giving kisses. Her waves are the cutest thing, always with a smile, and she waves at everyone we pass. She has now started to carry objects with her when she crawls too which is entertaining. She likes to carry her boppy pillow and lay in it in various places in the apartment. Laying down in general is sort of new as well. She will just put her head down in random places and lay on the floor for a few seconds. Its really cute when she lays down next to Ella but it never lasts longer than 10 seconds. Ella has become very tolerant and lets Ally lay on her, pet her face, push on her paws, pat her head, just about anything really which is a big change.

Not much has changed in terms of eating or sleeping. She is working on more table food and getting a little harder to feed baby food but that's to be expected. She loves chicken, cheese, noodles, and goldfish crackers. She has mastered the sippy cup but I have only been putting water or a water/apple juice mix in it for now.

We really think she is getting tall now and her hair just seems to get more curly by the day. We are busy making plans for her 1st birthday parties (yes, she gets at least two) and she will have her big 1 year doctors visit on October 4. At this visit she will get a lot of shots and will get the go-ahead to move from formula to whole milk. Hard to believe how much our life has changed in one year! Summer is coming to a close so we will have to find other things to do now that the pools are all closed. Enjoy some photos from this past month and the ONE YEAR update is soon to come.