11 Months Old!!!!

I write this a little sad... My baby is 11 months old! Where has the time gone!?!? It honestly just feels like yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital and now she will be having her first birthday next month!!!

Even though it is kind of sad that she's almost One it also brings on some new and exciting things. Miley's walking skills are improving more and more every day. She has now mastered turning while she walks. She can walk pretty far now too. She can start from the couch in the living room, walk around her toys, go into the kitchen and turn to go towards the dining room and back out to the living room! It is fun to see how much she can improve almost over night it seems!

She is really starting to communicate with us now. Her new favorite sign lately is for Nursing- she now does it on her own to tell me she is thirsty. She still does More and we are working on All Done right now. We would prefer her to do that sign when she is done eating rather then throwing a fit or throwing her silverware or cup on the floor. And she can tell you what a Chicken says if you say it first and also a Lamb, and If you ask her to say Thank You- it certainly sounds like that is what she is trying to say to you!

We are working on getting her ready for the move towards some whole milk. At the beginning of December we changed her 3 ounce bottle in the afternoon to a sippy cup with a snack and she took to that very well. She is still getting a 5 ounce bottle in the morning but this week Taylor had her on Thursday and he misunderstood me and he did the same thing for her morning bottle and she did very well with that too so we might be transitioning both bottles to a sippy cup so it will be easier to add in whole milk when the time is right. She is still nursing 3 times a day (during the week- 5 to 6 on the weekend) Morning, 5pm and before bed. I'm hoping also by the time she turns one we can cut out that 5pm feeding- I think it will take some time because we have tried having supper right at 5 instead of 5:30 or 6 and she still wants to nurse by 6 so for now-- we will just leave it in there because it is VERY obvious that she isn't ready to start weaning yet, which is totally fine with me. :)

Miley is also starting to help with dressing and undressing. She'll try to help you pull on or pull off her shirt- I know dressing is a hard thing to learn but at least she is taking some interest now and starting to realize how to do it. :)

She still LOVES music- she has a percusion set and it comes with two drum sticks and she can drum REALLY well, for her age. Her percusion set is a drum that opens up and more instruments are inside and she is really good at taking the top off and taking things out and then putting the top back on.

She is now interested in the fridge and magnets so I got her a Leap Frog alaphabet set and you put the letters in the little music box and it tells you how each letter sounds. I thought it might be a bit much for her but she surprised us when she figured out very quickly how to take out and replace the letters in the box! It's pretty impressive!

We are looking forward to Miley's first Christmas- she still isn't fond of the tree and she HATES all the Santas and Snowmen at my parents house- she about clawed me to death trying to crawl over my shoulder when I showed her one tonight. My parents said she did that to all of her Christmas decorations that they had out. I wonder what it will be like when we take her to see Santa at the mall......

Here are some photos from Daddy Daycare on Thursday. What a wonderful Daddy!!!