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What I love about you at 11 months...

I can't believe that in one short month you will be one year. It's amazing how fast (and slow sometimes) it goes by. This month had a lot of changes for you, and while we are still transitioning on things, you're doing so well! I'm going to try extra hard to snuggle you as much as possible this last month, the last month of being ZERO, as Sadie says.

  • You are taking steps all on your own, but I wouldn't exactly say you are walking. You can both stand up without pulling up on anything or holding on, and just stand there. Sophie will take anywhere between 2-5 steps, but then sit back down. Sydnie just doesn't seem to care as much, although she loves to push the car or shopping cart around - it never gets old for her.
  • Sydnie loves to crawl too... and now she has mixed it up with what I like to call the "crab crawl" where she "walks" but on all 4s. It's pretty cute to see.
  • We are still doing whole milk mixed in with your formula bottles... about half and half now. Very rarely you'll spit up, but I'm not sure if this is from the milk or not.
  • We are trying to get you to take some of your bottles from a sippy cup, although it's been slow going. You are learning how it all works, and will take a couple of sips out of it, but then kind of give up. 
  • I've noticed that Sophie does much better with the sippy cup, but not so good with picking up and eating finger foods, but Sydnie is the opposite. She's not as good with a sippy, but great at picking up food and getting it to her mouth.
  • We've been introducing more solids/finger foods too... banana, bagels, crackers, goldfish, ham, chicken, cheese, oranges, strawberries, grapes, yogurt, peaches, waffles, pancakes, and cereal, as well as the usual puffs and mum-mums. 
  • We went to the beach this month for Memorial Day, and we all had so much fun! We drove at night on the way there so that you could sleep and we wouldn't have to stop. I was worried since you are both tummy sleepers, but you did great. Once we got there at 1:00am you were awake and ready to play though so we had to work a little bit to get you back to sleep. Over the course of the trip we went to the beach everyday - you loved to play in the baby pool, play with shells and go out into the ocean. We went out to eat every night and you did great.
  • While we were at the beach, we started to modify your schedule a bit. You'd get a bottle when you woke up (around 6:30 or 7), then breakfast solids shortly after (baby food, puffs, cereal, bagel, bananas, etc.) Then we'd hed over to the beach, where you actually napped there in the mornings, either in the tent or in our arms! When you'd wake up you'd have a lunch bottle and some puffs. We headed back to the trailer for afternoon naps. You would get some juice after nap, and then a milk sippy cup at dinner time. We'd top you off with a milk bottle before bed too. 
  • When we got back home we are trying to stick to the same schedule as the beach, but sometimes you end up getting 4 bottles/sippys, and sometimes it's just 3. I think in time it will all work itself out.
  • In the mornings, you wake up around 5:30 or 6, and very rarely sleep until 7:00. And you aren't exactly the happiest babies when you wake up either. Sometimes you'll babble and talk to yourself, but most of the time you cry until we get you out. I'm not sure what that is all about, but I'm hoping it's something you'll grow out of.
  • You don't really like to share with each other yet. If one of you has a toy, the other one will try and take it away, which makes you really mad. And you cry, and scream... really loud. I know that most babies don't have to constantly fight over toys so I try and remember that you'll soon figure out that you can share and play with different things. 
  • There are some times though where you will each be in different areas of a room, happily playing with different toys... these moments are really precious.
  • You don't like to wear shoes, but now that you are learning how to walk, I think we have to start putting them on you more often so you can get used to them.
  • Sometimes you just want to be held and are NOT happy when we put you down. But because there are two of you, sometimes holding you isn't an option. I hate hearing you cry because you just want us to hold you, but I have to get things done sometimes. 
  • This month has been interesting because I can see that you are really learning. I love watching the cognitive development, like picking a onsie up off the floor and putting it in the hamper, because you know that's where they are supposed to go. There have been a lot of little moments like that where I think to myself or say to Daddy "Did you see her do that? That's amazing!" 
  • We have Sadie's play kitchen in the bonus room and you love to play with it and the toy food.
  • Before we went ot the beach we had a tent setup in the bonus room and filled it with plastic balls, you both loved playing in it too. That was actually the very first thing that Sydnie would do in the mornings is crawl over to the ball tent and get in. 
  • You don't really care for the TV. I'll try and put it on a cartoon like Mickey Mouse or Bubble Guppies and you might watch for a minute, but then continue on with whatever you were doing. 
  • If we sit down in the floor to play with you, you instantly find your way to us and crawl into our lap.
  • At first you did really good with laying your head down on the boppy and eating you bottle, but I think now you either get too distracted or you just want to situp and eat. Either way it absolutely drives me crazy because you end up holding your bottle upside down and it leaks all over the place. I'm usually holding and feeding one of you when this happens to it's almost impossible for me to get to you/the bottle to stop it. Did I mention that this drives me bonkers when you do this??? :)
  • You like to play the same cabinet and utensil drawer that Sadie did when she was your age. These are great distractions when we are trying to fix meals or do dishes in the kitchen.
  • Sadie LOVES you. You are her babies (MY BABIES!). She has to give you hugs and kisses before every nap and at bedtime or she cries and says "but I didn't give her hug and kiss". She loves to hold you and try to feed you. She likes to pick up your toys when you drop them, and even likes to tattle on you when you are doing things you shouldn't be, like eating Rascals food, playing in his water bowl, or not sharing. 
  • You do really well at daycare although it's taken some time to get your schedule figured out there since you usually only take one nap there (afternoon). The only thing is that the teachers (Miss Anna and Miss Hannah) say you scream... LOUD! Especially when you have a toy taken away from you or you want to be picked up. We have to work on this because it drives mommy crazy too.

Well, it truly has been a great month and I'll be back next month writing about you turning 1! CRAZZZZY!