Lily is at such a fun stage in life. Michael and I both wish we could just freeze her the way she is because she is just so stinking cute. We have said that many times in the past too though and she just keeps getting more fun and more adorable.
Eating: Lily eats lots of meats and dairy now to add to all her fruits, veggies, and cereals. She loves chicken and turkey but man do they stink to me! Its good for her to have the extra protein though. She has been doing great on her formula. I'm glad this is the last month of it though. She also loves little pieces of bread, yogurt bites, shredded cheese, cheerios, and she still loves puffs too. Michael and I aren't the most adventurous feeders but I think she is getting a good variety.
Sleeping: Lily is an AMAZING sleeper! She sleeps about 12 hours at night and takes 2 2+ hour naps in the day. Its nice. We slept at the Malouf's house 2 nights for Christmas Eve and Christmas and she slept so good at night, but would not take naps there in the day. I think it was too weird since she could see the room and knew it was NOT her bed. But it gave us an excuse to go home and shower while she took a nap at home.
Praying; We say 4 prayers a day with Lily. Before each meal, and before bedtime. So now whenever we say, "Let's say a prayer" she clasps her hands together. Its darling! She isn't very reverent though. She usually laughs and talks during the prayers :)
Playing: Lily loves to play! Especially with all of her new Christmas toys. She does patty cake all the time! She is quite the dancer now too. We got her a cute little motorcycle for Christmas that she can push around and it plays music. She likes to rock out to the music by doing head banging, shaking her bum, stomping her feet, pausing to roll her arms and clap, and twisting side to side. She has better moves than her mommy :). She is a lover of books like her parents. She got a few new ones for Christmas that she wants to read over and over. She loves ones that she can feel different textures. Lily also wants to read our books and is always pulling them off our bookshelf while I follow and replace them! We need to figure out a new situation there. She has started to pretend to eat food. She got a picnic basket and a tea set for Christmas that she likes to pretend to drink out of the cups and eat the foods. She does little fake chewing and swallowing sounds. She loves all the fisher price little people stuff so we got her Noah's Ark. She likes to take the animals out and chew on their heads for awhile then put them back in the boat.
Sick!: Lily has a cold. She started coughing on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day she got all snotty! I hate when she has a cold! It is so sad. And she hates having me suck her snot out with the blue thingy. I hope she gets better fast!
Pacifier: Lily found a plug or passy or whatever you want to call it in her toys and randomly starting sucking on it. She hasn't wanted to take a plug for the past 7 months! We don't want her to get hooked on it so we just have her suck on them when she is in the car so she will be calm and not do her incredible hulk routine and when we are at church. I think she needs to suck more since she has weaned from nursing. The bottle just isn't enough of a workout for her jaws :) She looks like a baby again when she has it in. It is weird when she has it because her constant little whispered talking goes away. She is just silent! We love to hear her talk so we usually keep it out!
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| This is from New Year's Eve. Here she is with her plug in her carseat ready to go home already! |
Talking: Lily says "What's That?" All the time while pointing. She also says, "What is it?" and "Dada" and "Mama" and "No" and "Bye" and she says "titty" for both Kitty and Pretty ha ha. She nods her head yes while saying, "yeSSSSS" and shakes her head no while saying "nononono!", she signs for more and all done and waves bye bye and blows kisses. She understands a lot. If she picks something up and I tell her to bring it to me she will. If I say no in my teacher voice she will crawl away from what she was doing as fast as she can shaking her head no. Michael's dad told her he wished somebody could feed him while we were over there at Christmas. She then tried to feed him her cheerios. Then he told her to put the ball down so she could pull herself up to her bike and she immediately threw the ball! She obeys Grandpa ha ha.
Miss Independent: Lily has a strong will of her own! When we take a toy away from her she can throw quite the tantrum! When she pushes around her little bike and I try to help her steer at all she grabs my hand and throws it off! I'm glad she has spirit. She is going to need some spunk in this world!
Other cool stuff: Lily loves to snuggle. She lays her head down on my shoulder and with her little hands pulls on my arms to hold her close. She gives us lots of kisses too. She is a sweetheart. Lily also took 2 steps on December 27th!! I was sitting on the floor and she was holding onto our couch a couple feet away and she just walked to me without holding onto anything! I don't think she even realized what she did. She is scared of our dryer buzzer. When it goes off she throws whatever toys she has and makes a beeline for me or Michael if he is closer crawling 50 miles per hour! Her face is pure terror! Its hilarious!
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| Can't believe our baby girl is 11 months old! |
great holiday updates! looks like you guys had a fun and busy time with all your family!
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