Eleven Months!

Another month has come and gone and Lola is now 11 months old! In 3 short weeks our new baby girl will be turning One year old. Lame as it is, Im tearing up just remembering the day she was born, the day we brought her home and all the wonderful days between then and now. I am SO going to miss her being a little baby. And Im going to miss the monthly update and mini photo shoots too! Her 'shoot' this month was especially tricky however, as she kept trying to eat the paper, strangle her stuffed animal and stand up on her rocker. I was doing everything I could to get her to pay attention, hold still, and look at the camera long enough for me to snap the picture. Not an easy task :)

This month has gone by quickly partly because Im nervous for next month to come and to have my baby be a one year old and partly because we've been busy planning a first birthday bash for our soon to be one year old!! We've also had Easter, spring break, a trip to Denver and a very busy 10 month old keeping us on our toes. So I apologize for the week late post. Here is a quick update of Lola's going ons this past month:


Still crawling everywhere and is super speedy fast! Still pulling herself up onto furniture, people, and whatever else she can get a grip on. She can kind of creep along things but is really timid about doing so. Most of the time, she gets back down and crawls the few feet over to wear she wants to be. Im hoping this is not a sign that walking is even farther away than a few more months :)

She has 2 more new teeth making a total of 8! 4 on top and 4 on bottom. Very adorable!

She loves to point to everything with her 2 pointer fingers and when shes mad, she yells at things while shaking her pointers at them!

She can wave hello and goodbye although its more of a whole arm wave rather than just her hand. Still totally cute and I love when she does it on her own. The other day she waved to her shadow outside!

She's learned how to move and dance to music. She shakes her little body and waves and kicks her arms but you can tell she's trying to move to the beat/tune of the music. I really hope she did not inherit my or her fathers lack of rhythm and dancing skills. Neither of us have ever seen each other dance. Because we cant. It just happened that way and there's no need to embarrass ourselves or make anyone uncomfortable by having to watch us try :) I think our little Lola is going to love to dance and maybe she will be a little ballerina someday!

She still has not had her 'first' word. She can say Dadda, Momma, Hi, Hey, and Yeah but never intentionally. They just pop up once in a while in the middle of her babbling but one of these days shes going to get one out at the right time. I think her first word will be Doggie. She loves dogs and gets SO excited when she sees or hears one.

In the last month she has become VERY attached to her silky. She used to sleep with it every night then I started giving it to her at naps and on car rides. Now, she doesnt crawl around the house without it clenched in one hand or in her mouth. When shes falling asleep, she likes to feel the tags between her fingers and rub it on her cheeks or bury her face into it and sigh contently. It is the cutest ever! Ive been wanting to purchase another one in case anything happens to this 'lovey' but it was a gift from my baby shower and now they no longer sell this exact blanket in the store. So I researched it online only to find that some evil people are trying to sell the few pink ones remaining for $30 a piece (originally it cost $8 at walmart)!! I havent yet decided if her security silky is worth a days wage or if I should try and buy the yellow/green one and see if she takes to it...

She loves her little musical push walker. Every morning she wants to do some laps around the living room and down the hallways. She gets up with her little shaky legs and then once she gets a few steps in, shes off and pushing faster than her legs can follow! It is pretty dang cute (and funny). Ill have to post one of the videos of her soon.

She also LOVES to be outside. Now that its been warm a lot more, were outside just about everyday. We go for walks in the stroller or play in the front and back yard. Lola is actually afraid of the grass and doesnt like her feet or her hands to touch it. So we just sit on a blanket and play with toys and listen to the birds and doggies and work on our (my) sun-bathing. I cant wait for summer to get here so I can take my baby girl to the pool and see how much fun she has in the water!! I think someone will be getting a few pool toys for their birthday :)

Her sleeping and eating schedules are still about the same. She goes down for bed around 830 and wakes for a bottle between 4 and 6 am and then goes back down again until 8 or 830. She takes 2- 3 naps a day and each are about 1 -2 1/2 hours each (so usually about 3 hours of napping each day). And yes, all naps are still in her swing! She might be the only 11 month old who still uses a swing, for naps no less, but as long as she's getting her sleep and she goes down in her swing happily, Ill take it!! She has about 4- 4 oz bottles throughout the day (about 22 oz total including her morning bottle) as well as breakfast, lunch, a mid- afternoon snack and diner. She still does not like peaches, mac and cheese (jarred) and most recently, she does not like the jarred spaghetti. She eats most everything else and her favorites are pears, applesauce, peas, green beans, chicken noodle, vanilla yogurt and of course anything chocolate :)

Ill post once more next month with her updates from months 11- 12 and then after that, you get what you get as far as updates and pics. Which will still be as frequent (or more) because who doesnt love posts about our Lola Viola?!?