eleven months

i cannot believe that in less than 30 days she is going to be ONE! chris and i were looking back on past blog posts when i was just so ready to have her and we can’t believe how fast this year has gone. totally amazing.

here she is with her 2 fingers in her mouth.. you will almost always see her like that. mommy is trying to get over the whole germ thing with fingers-touching-public-things-yuck! we have been thankful that besides the christmas stomachflu she’s only had a few colds. but ever since the flu, she’s been in bed with us.. which is where all our other kids slept when they were babies, so we are okay with it. she’s napping twice, but even the 2nd nap is such a struggle.. i can’t remember the age where they go down to 1 nap. i’m not ready…. 🙂 she’s pretty much eating everything we eat.. still has her favorites of grapes and pears… bananas sliding down a notch though. crawling so fast. goes up and down the stairs and knows how to get off the couch. dances to almost any sort of music. anything. vocabulary is: hi, hi ya, hi dad, bye, baba- (again all purpose word which also means.. bottle, ball, diaper, bath, apple) eeeeeze (please), tutu (thank you), uh-oh, nigh-nigh (night) and my current fave: OOZEDAT? (who’s that?) gives kisses by leaning her head in. has a fascination with toothbrushes. we had to childproof the kitchen cabinets and she is deeply offended that she cannot play with the bleach. likes to play ball. personal trainer to dad, circling the rosebowl with him in the new jogger stroller. always happy to see her siblings. likes to play with them. she trusts them. (aw!) smiles for strangers and gives them a headtilt ala valley girl and says hiiiiya! 🙂 just the little busy body all day long…our almost one year old. sigh.