Calista 11 Months Old

Now that Calista is 11 months old I feel like I am trying to stop time as the days tick off before she turns one.  

I think her biggest milestone this month is that she got a tooth!   Her very first one!  I was so excited for her and I didn't notice any differences in her temprament when she was teething.  Just one day no teeth and the next I could see a slime clear/white sliver on the top of her bottom gum.

 Calista is also now a pro at scooting and she loves waving!  One of her favorite things to do is to eat the at her high chair!  I really think she likes to eat food like everyone else.

We had an incident with the robot vacuum bumping into her and lets just say she does not like the vacuum.  She will intently watch it, but if it gets close to her she will try to hit it and gets upset.

Check out that tooth!

Mint containers are always a favorite of hers.

This is the adorable face I see staring up at me multiple times a day.  "Mommy, pick me up.  I love you and I want you to hold me."

I love Calista!

11 months!

Yesterday Leon turned eleven months old.  This year is going by so fast.  Leon has really started to play more this past month.  He will put his hands up in the air and wait until we copy him and then instantly bust up laughing before doing it again.  He could go on with that game for probably an hour.  I just know he is thinking "Mom and Dad are so weird I can get them to do anything."

It seems like his stranger anxiety has gone down some over the past month.  He now doesn't like/want to go to other people, but he does stop crying shortly after I leave.  He also is fine playing around on the floor when other people are around as long as they don't pick him up.  I hope that this continues and he will be back to going to everyone  in no time.

Leon has 7 teeth; four on top and three on the bottom.  And in case you didn't notice, he got another hair cut.  Every time I cut his hair I feel sad about it and think I cut it too short.  But when I look back at pictures of him with long hair I think why did I let his hair look so long and scraggly?  It's a cycle I don't remember going through with any of my other kids.

This photo shoot went much better than the last one.  I sat him on a stool and he was pretty much stuck there.  I only had a hard time getting him to show me that he can stand up (while holding on) which he does all the time.  He even pulls himself up on my legs while I'm standing so I have no choice but to push him down (sad) or pick him up.  I can't walk away or he will fall.  He is smart like that.  I never push him down by the way.

Look at the drool.  He still constantly puts everything in his mouth.  On the upside his biting has gone way way down.  He barely ever bites anymore.

I had to bribe him with a car (hopefully I'm not saying that again in 16 years).

Leon loves his walker and can do it by himself.  He can't turn though so I have to run over and turn him around after he walks the length of our living room.  Check out the vid:

Now I need to start planing his birthday party.

11 months

I feel like I say this every month but it is crazy to me that she is 11 months already.  I noticed that I started rounding up and telling people she is a year.  With Easter done it seems like it is time for me to start planing her birthday party.  Not sure what we are going to do, it doesn't really matter to her.  I know it is going to involve giving Scarlett her own cake/cupcake to devour and one awesome photo shoot.  The rest is still up in the air.

Wasn't it nice of my neighbors to put in nice new beauty bark (mulch if you ask bob) so my pictures look extra great!  I think Scarlett was sick most of the last month.   It seemed she had a cold or two and a couple small fevers here and there.  She has a runny nose now but I am hoping with warmer weather just around the corner she will stop getting sick.

Scarlett is now a pro at both standing up holding on to things and at getting down.  Getting down was pretty hard for her and for a while she would just stand up and cry for us to get her.  But with chocolate chip bribery we taught her how to sit down.  She also easily walks along furniture and can bend down to pick things up.  The gate is still on the stairs because she is always trying to go up them and even though it hasn't happened I am scared she will crawl halfway up and fall down.

Scarlett still drinks tons of formula and I don't think I give her as much table food as I should.  I guess this next month I will work on integrating more of our food into her diet.  I also want to start practicing walking with her.  She is so good at it while holding onto the couch she needs some encouragement to venture off.

Scarlett started waving and clapping and I think she is becoming more independent.  She can play longer crawling around the house without me than I have noticed her do before.  This is probably because she realized that she can crawl around and find things like the chocolate chip drawer, or the kids bag of Easter candy.  I haven't noticed any words from her yet although she does copy us sometimes.  And I know she understands a lot of things because if I ask what is in her mouth she puts her hand to her mouth.  Or if I say kisses she leans her head into me for either me to kiss her on the forehead or to give me slobber baby open mouth kisses.

Scarlett is at a good age.  She is mobile, she often entertains herself, but she isn't quite destroying the house yet.  We love her!